Talk of the 4x4 schedule has not ended. The teachers voted May 5. And the results are in. The 4x4 schedule did not pass. 

During the meeting Tuesday, May 5, teachers voted whether to support a 4x4 schedule for next year. Even though the count was close, the 4x4 schedule needed a 67 percent to pass but it only got a 64 percent. 

The new schedule has been on the minds of many people since they announced the possibility of it being in place for next year. Some students were looking forward to making up some credits and others were looking forward to more electives.

Not all the students wanted change. Erica Heyne, sophomore, said “we should live up to our mistakes and not have them sugar-coated.” Many believed that the 4x4 schedule was more for under-achievers.

With students taking six, not eight, classes next year, some are wondering whether new electives will be offered. 

Assistant Principal Jim Thomas said that the electives have not yet been decided. Classes will be put into the schedule as long as there is a teacher to teach it and enough students to make classes out of it. 

The administrators are trying to add as many electives to please their student population. Classes like drafting, zoology, and agriculture might be offered. They are hoping that these electives, products of Small Learning Communities, will increase the students’ participation in school and get them involved. 

Brittony Billingslea, assistant principal, said she believed that the reason teachers didn’t vote on it was because of the “lack of time for the implementation of the 4x4 schedule.” If it would have been better organized and ready, more teachers would have voted for the change. 

A six-period day, Billingslea said, will make it hard to have small learning communities because there aren’t enough classes to cover core classes and the career pathway classes.