Monday, July 22, 2013

Schedules

I am on vacation right now enjoying beautiful weather and fun times with my family.  Yet, school work and your schedules for next year had to come along this year.

Normally, the administrators are able to set the schedule and have everything locked into place before students leave for the summer.  This year, because of the move to Infinite Campus, what we all thought was going to be an "easy" schedule build quickly became a nightmare.

The administrators have continued to work on the schedule and a few weeks ago they let us know that they were done and we could start working on fixing conflicts.  They helped in that process quite a bit by going through and making switches to your alternates if your first choice classes weren't working, but there is still quite a bit of work left for us to do.

Unfortunately, the biggest part of the remaining problems will be tough choices for students and families to make.  The bottom line is that sometimes a class only runs 1 period a day and if a student has requested two classes which both happen to run just once a day at the same time then there is nothing left but a tough decision on what you'd like to take.

So, even though I am on vacation, I have started sending out e-mails to students regarding their schedules for next year.  If you don't get an e-mail, hopefully that will mean your schedule worked just the way you requested it (or at least with your alternates).  Although these are messages I hate sending out, I am happy that I at least have a great view to enjoy while working on my computer.  :-)

Thanks for your patience, flexibility and understanding if you are one of the students who isn't able to have their requested schedule to work out!

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