We are considering some high school class schedule changes for next school year. A final decision will be made and presented to the school board at the February meeting.
1. Requiring all 10th grade students take Spanish I. Spanish I is required for graduation. Currently students can take Spanish I as a sophomore, junior, or senior. This has led to scheduling problems for some students who don't take it as sophomores. This year all sophomores elected to take Spanish. It makes sense to now make it required during the sophomore year. It was also discussed to possible move it to freshman year so it will continue on from Spanish in grades 7-8, but we believe that moving computer applications to 9th grade would be more beneficial.
2. Moving Computer applications to 9th grade. It is currently required in 10th grade.
Reason to move: Since we are 1:1, it will give students an additional year to use their computer skills.
Reason not to move: Having a 6th required class will reduce the number of electives to one. Ninth graders will be able to choose only one of the following: Art, Band, Chorus, and Drafting/Woods I. This will effect the number of freshmen students in these classes.
We do not want students to drop band because they want to take drafting/woods, so we could make drafting-woods available to sophomores. Smaller numbers in art and chorus are not a concern right now.
