This year’s new scheduling process is much better and effective. Students no longer have to go through the trouble of putting each class in a particular time slot to try to make everything work out.

In recent years, students have not only picked the classes they wanted, but also the periods they wanted to take each one, through arena scheduling. But this year, administrators said, too many students failed to enter the required seven credits or the necessary elective alternatives, which made it hard to determine how many sections of each course to offer.

As a result, administrators and counselors will make the schedules for every high schooler, which should relieve the stress of many students.

Under the plan, students have a much better chance of getting the classes they want and need, with no worries if there would be room in the class for them to take it. First, during the arena scheduling process last year, the wifi would go out or crash, causing students to lose their classes and requiring them to start all over. This will no longer be a problem. 

Also, many students struggle with getting their classes set up due to overlapping periods of certain classes. This stress has now been relieved, with students no longer having to worry about this.

Additionally, there will be no issues with kids picking classes only to be with their friends, instead of having a real interest in the subject. They now will have an opportunity to meet new people and even get better grades from focusing on the class more.

Importantly, the administration can see which credits students need and help get their classes lined up correctly, so students can meet all of their graduation requirements.

Finally, many students take advantage of arena scheduling by taking many study halls and not the courses that they really need. So the school now can see how many study halls students are taking.

Attempting to make schedules for the next school year is always tough for students, but now it has become more stressful. 

It has been decided that the high school will be making schedules for students next year, using the class requests that students have already put in Skyward. This is an unfortunate decision.

Having counselors and administrators making schedules is going to be a lot more time consuming. There are hundreds of students in each grade, while only a few adults will be making schedules. It would be less time consuming for each student to just make their own schedule. 

Also, many students suffer from social anxiety, which will become a bigger problem with this new setup. Students typically like to be in classes with their friends because it makes them feel more comfortable, but now they won’t have that relief. Being stuck in a room with unfamiliar faces can be scary for some students. 

Some students are so busy out of school that their main form of interaction with one another comes through classes in school. It is so much easier to communicate in person rather than through social media, which is why it isn’t bad to want to have classes with friends. 

School officials will stress about how addicted students are to social media, yet take away this way to ensure the chance to talk with friends in classes.

Students also will be less likely to get the classes they want during the time slot they want. Most people like to pick harder classes for the time of the day in which it is easiest for them to focus. Some students work better in the morning than in the afternoon, and school officials will not know that. 

There is also a chance that two different classes will only be available at the same time, then school officials would have to pick one. This is unfair, because they will not know which class would benefit the student more. 

Having the high school do the schedules is just making things harder than they need to be.