Students at Kennedy dropped their classes once the first semester ended, allowing them to begin new courses on the first day of the second semester.
To do so, students needed to have a good reason to drop their class before asking their counselors. However, some are able to get it changed and some aren’t.
Student Counselor Linda Nguyen, who is in charge of students with last names that start with Si-Z at Kennedy, explained why some students aren’t able to change their schedules.
“We can’t just change students’ classes if they don’t like their classmates or teacher, because then we have to be fair to every student,” Nguyen said. “Overall, we can only change the schedule if they’re joining an academy or AP [Advanced Placement] students who want to drop out of AP.”
Nguyen also mentioned, schedule changes needed to be looked over and approved by the admin. Therefore, only some can move their classes around.
Kevin Vue, a freshman who joined the Criminal Justice Academy in the second semester, got some advantages from having his class change.
“I wanted to join SPD at the beginning of the school year,” Vue said. “But I had to wait until the second semester to be able to change it. I was happy to change some of my classes to be part of the academy.”
An AP student named Roen Him dropped out of AP US History, due to the class being too difficult for him.
“I was enrolled in APUSH,” he said. “But after the first semester, I noticed I can’t really do it anymore. So I asked my counselor if I could change it to [regular] U.S. History instead. Which worked.”
In the end, schedule changes affected students in different ways.
