Jessica Martinez
Staff Writer In the past years, upon arriving to school, the students would head straight to division. Division was a place of comfort; a place to mentally prepare ourselves for our classes, and get important information from our division teachers. We bonded with our division. Although we still have division numbers, that's all they are now. After the first two weeks of school, we were informed that there would no longer be division. NO DIVISION? Yeah, you read correctly. Now you may ask yourself, why don't we have division anymore, right? The main reason we don't have division is because there's no time. Ever since the 2012 strike, teachers have certain instructional minutes that they must fulfill. "Considering the fact we don't have division this year, it’s affecting us as students because of the lack of time we have to get prepared for our classes. Especially for us seniors. We’re missing out on the important information that we need to graduate high school,” said Erika Vargas, Div. 408. Others believe that we don’t need division. According to Luis Gonzales, Div. 402, “It’s just a waste of time, and personally I didn't even listen to the teachers when they announced stuff.” “Division had its ups and downs.” said Jose Soto, Div. 406. There are different alternatives in order to have our divisions back. We can always shorten classes or shorten passing classes, but none of these suggestions would work. This is why the Hubbard's staff has chosen to not have division any longer. As to giving us the important information we need to graduate, Hubbard does it through announcements and meetings during our lunch periods. Now announcements are really important! It's sad that nobody really listens to them because at the end of the day, students are too eager to leave school to even bother to listen to the announcements that are given during 8th period. As to the meetings we have before our lunch periods, those are kind of helpful, but then again they put us all in the same room and it is obvious that no one will listen. Overall, as I interviewed students and staff about their opinions on the matter, many agreed that division was something we needed. In my opinion, I personally think we do need division. I loved division because I would come to school unprepared, and I had a full 15 minutes to do my homework. Now instead of having a full 50 minutes of lunch, I’d prefer having 30 minutes of lunch and have division instead. It's understandable that we can't have our divisions, but it's something we all really need and miss. Now all we have left are division numbers.
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giovanni contreras
11/22/2013 03:39:43 am
I think that there should be division for it was a really great place for me to get ready for my clases later in the day. It also was a good time to finish any homework i did not finish at home so i believe we should get division once more.
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