4j’s New High School Schedule

Laura Stanton staff writer

The 4j district has decided for the 2023-2024 school year to change the schedule. Instead of having five of the same classes five days a week, students would have A, B, and C days, and instead of five classes, we now have eight classes at the same time. Sophomore Sarai Miranda doesn’t particularly like this new schedule and would have preferred the board to ask for the students’ opinions first, but that they already made the decision and there's nothing students can do about it. Miranda also doesn't like how there are more classes and students may not be able to see the same people and teachers every day.

Because of all of the new classes, the workload will probably be affected quite a lot. Miranda agrees with this: “It will probably give us more homework because of more classes which really sucks.” She also said that there will be less time to study for tests because there are more classes and less time.

Ninth to eleventh graders forecasted their classes for next year in advisory. They had to choose about 24 classes for the whole school year. Miranda said, “I liked forecasting. It was easy to pick all the new classes and it was quick.”

Some of the classes she forecasted for were radio broadcasting and political science. She specifically chose radio broadcasting because she had taken the class before and had enjoyed it quite a lot.

There are a lot of ups and downs to the new schedule. Some people agree that this was a good decision to make, but others don’t. Miranda said, “I would keep the old schedule. I’m already familiar with it, however, it's not a huge deal for the new schedule. If I could change it, however, I would just keep the old schedule and add a study hall or something.”