This is the school year like the rest of the go to the auditorium for schedule change. Then students have to  wait to be able to get in line on stage and tell them you’re wanting to drop whatever class, you’ve been here 20 minutes and then they tell you they’re not doing class changes.

“All students pick their classes in the winter,” counselor Joaquin Zapata said. “When you pick your classes, you commit to those classes. You get them on your schedule because you picked them. No one picks classes for the students. We only fill gaps for missing classes once school starts.”

The class dropping classes hasn’t changed, though. 

“If there is a good reason why a student cannot take a class, we can make a change in the first few days,” Zapata said. “After that, the grade level principal will have to OK a change.”

This year may seem more difficult to get a class filled, it’s not because of a lack of classes. Instead it’s due common teacher plan periods. 

“The bigger issue is that teachers now have planning periods together as a department every day,” Zapata said. “Instead of having English 9, 10, 11 and 12 four blocks a day, it is limited to three which affects class size and flexibility in the for electives.”

Some seniors didn’t initially have a government class, which they need to graduate at semester, thus resulting in schedule changes. 

“Skyward autofills schedules,” Zapata said. “It does not know who needs the U.S. Government first semester, so it is not a case of we do not have enough sections.”