Lately, there has been controversy over the possible schedule changes. Looking at the possible solutions there are so many aspects to this situation. While the administration says we, as the students, don’t have a say a simple look at our perspectives won’t hurt.
Let’s say we go to Viking Days every day with 30-minute homerooms. Viking Days consist of rushed, crowded, and frustrated days. First, the class hour is too short to get into a lesson plan, leaving Mondays sometimes pointless.
Second, lunch takes about the whole time waiting in line for food, only to be disappointed that there’s no where to sit if you even make it to a table in time before the bell rings. That’s why having four lunch periods on Tuesdays-Fridays make it more bearable. And by not having enough time to learn or enough time to eat every day, a lot of grades have the potential of slipping.
How about we take seminar out completely except for a 30-minute homeroom where we watch channel 1 and SSR. Let’s go with “Red & Blue” days without ever having another Viking day, but in this process we add an extra class. We would have to come an hour earlier or stay an hour later for this addition. While this idea would give the students an extra academic credit towards graduation, the idea of staying until 4:10p.m.  or having school start at 7a.m. is realistic.
Simply because the majority of the student body either a.) have after school jobs b.) participate in sports that don’t even get out until 5:30 or 6p.m. or six now or c.) have other situations where staying or coming would ultimately interfere.
The idea of another elective would be great, but we do still need some kind of study hall and yet we can’t afford that extra hour.
But what if we were to rid of Viking day schedules, keep some kind of study hall, and fit an extra elective into the mix? Well, if we were to have a 30 minute homeroom every day, we would be able to have 1,3,5,7 or 2,4,6,8 classes for 86 minutes or one hour and twenty-six minutes while having a five minute passing period. We would get that extra credit, keep a type of seminar, take 30-minute lunches, and probably improve the academic ability of SHS students.
For those who like numbers, we are at school seven hours and ten minutes equaling 430 minutes. So next take 430 minus 30 (lunch) minus 30 (homeroom) minus 25 (total passing time) and this equals 345 minutes. Next divide by four classes and you get a total of 86.25 so we could have 86 minutes for each 1,3,5,7 or 2,4,6,8 class.