![]() By Meliza Angiano So what’s up with the schedule changing every year? I thought that Hubbard High School would finally finalize their schedule, but that thought changed towards the end of this school year. Wondering why it’s always changing, I interviewed Mr. Newman to find out why a change every year. He said that the administration presents the teachers with two schedules that they must vote on. Not only that, but he also gave us the reason to why it was changed previous years. “Two years ago division was at the beginning of the school day, every day, and students were not going to that class. That needed to change. The next year division was eliminated completely and many of the activities that we used to hold during division were also lost.” “The format of the school is not changing for next year. We will still have Wednesday division days and 50 minute classes on the other days.” “The only thing that might happen is that we would need to add 0 period or 9th period options for classes because we project our enrollment to increase and we do not have the space to have all of the students in classes at the same time without adding the potential for extra periods.” We don’t have it as difficult as other schools, such as Curie and Kennedy who start their 1st period at 7:30 in the morning (according to Mr. Newman) when there are students who participate in extracurricular activities or work and need to get to their jobs at a reasonable time. Knowing these thoughts of Mr. Newman I couldn’t stop myself from asking him what would his ideal schedule look like and he said. “I envision a school that is only 4 days a week with longer class periods.” Mr. Newman added, “That's right long weekends every week, but school would also go to about 5:00 every day. I would like to see school all year round. I believe we should start school earlier in August and have 1 week breaks throughout the school year instead of our current schedule where we start extremely late and don't get out until almost July. I believe in change as long as it has a purpose.”
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