As a junior class student of Jefferson Morgan, I think it would be a neat change to loosen the grip and expand the creativeness of our class schedules. Throughout middle school and high school, as you advance in grade the choice of electives and required classes opens up allowing for a classes that a student actually wants, or needs, if they plan on needing it for something after high school.

Right now at Jefferson Morgan we have 8 periods of classes, one being an hour long to allow for room for each lunch to be fit in the cafeteria. This has been the case for many years, strict bell to bell classes that mess up many schedules because of time restraints and class size.

An idea that I have come up with is the idea of choosing what days students have what class, so that way it allows more variety of classes for more students and allows for staff to have more classes so that they are not always rescheduling students to a different class. Classes will always have room for more students, and students would be able to choose how long they would have a class for and what days of the week they will have that class. This is a far-fetched idea for Jefferson Morgan, because of the immense change that it would bring to everyone’s schedule, but it is a good idea of what could be done for future Jefferson students.

An instance of this would be putting down Journalism for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for 2 hours each day. Scheduling like this would allow students to allocate time to what elective they would want to have the most; of course main courses are going to be the same time and days, so that students have the credits to graduate. Besides the strict main course selection the elective selection would be very flexible. A way to allow everyone to get their main courses out of the way would be by making a set amount of periods dedicated to main course, such as algebra and English. After the main periods there would be non-time restricted periods, which basically mean that there are no bells, you go to what class at what time, on a certain day if you have that class. More of a college type of schedule which is more flexible and shows a clearer reflection of what classes you took in high school on a resume.