The most dropped class is about to be completely redone, for the students’ benefit.

Homeroom will be changing to a curriculum based class, focusing on Social Emotional Learning for students. 

“I think it’s gonna be a great curriculum,” teacher Analia Carter said. 

“You know, I feel like we already do a lot of things that they’re teaching us to do.”

A portion of the curriculum is greetings and ice-breakers between students.

 “I feel like a lot of people don’t really know each other that well in homeroom,” freshman Abigail Welk said. 

“It kinda lets people talk more about how they feel mentally and stuff like that.”

“A lot of it’s kind of common sense, when you’re coming straight out of college, they teach you a lot of this kind of stuff,” teacher Brian White said. 

“I think it’ll work. I don’t have any negative comments about it.”

Working on students’ social learning can benefit in more ways than one. 

“I know like a lot of mental health can affect a lot of things; depression, and anxiety and stuff like that,” Welk said. 

“I think talking about it helps people a lot.”

A large concern among students is the time change, with homeroom being rumored to be scheduled in between second and third block instead of at the end of the day. 

“Having it earlier in the day is going to work better because honestly by the end of the day, everyone’s just tired and checked out,” teacher Kurt Sherry said.

 “That makes it really difficult for homeroom to be anything other than just people sitting in a room and doing non-school related things.”

The school board is putting effort into students’ learning with the new curriculum, and it might be worth trying.

“It might be strange at first, but I think your brain will get adjusted to it in two weeks tops,” White said.

“They’re pretty well invested in this, monetarily, so we’ll all give it a try and do the best we can, and see what happens.”