WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK New bell schedule adopted for state guidelines Elena Vincenty | Editor in Chief
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new bell schedule will go developing three models. into effect next school “After calculating the minutes year in order for BK to met by each mod in a normal meet the Florida Department 5-day week, we determined of Education requirement of how many minutes would be 135 instructional hours per needed at minimum in a class course. BK currently requires period in order to meet the each student to complete new guidelines,” Broach said. 28 classes to graduate which He and Yocum proposed totals to 945 hours. Whereas each schedule option to the public schools only require 24 faculty and staff, asking them classes to graduate, totaling in to vote onEa preferred option. NC 810 hours. “We wanted [the 5 UE 8:4 6 Q E Fri :4 Academic Dean Michael teachers’] input because it was S 9 6 E 01 urs X 47 2 Th change UL a5-slight 10: length Broach and Assistant in the of 0 B D 3 : X E 201 ed 12 31 C said. CH W day,” CYocum : Academic Dean Laura SYocum the 1 X 3 D es D 2:3 Tu E modified the current schedule To meet E guidelines, E Florida X n F o F increase M and F the school day F will to meet the requirements A :30 by X 12 A A B adapted the schedule after fifteen minutes overall, 01- adding A : 2 ) B 5 1
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five minutes to each mod, not including FLEX mod. “I was kind of nervous with the length of the day being longer,” sophomore Audrey Perry said. “But knowing it’s just fifteen minutes is nice.” Lunch mod will continue to be 30 minutes long, and FLEX mod will return to 55 minutes in length. BK is not the only school in the state, or even in this diocese, that has to change its bell schedule. “We found that many high schools around the state already had longer school days than what we are accustomed
to at Bishop Kenny,” Broach said. He remembers his days at BK when the old schedule was in place for almost 30 years. Broach added that the current schedule, which he says “works” for BK, is a product of two years worth of collaboration with faculty and administration. “We’re committed not to completely change the schedule,” Broach said, “but rather make minor adjustments which would allow us to meet the new requirements.”
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