Almost halfway through the year, most are familiar with Highlander time. People have stopped expecting to wake up late on Fridays, and switched their schedules to Wednesday.

Mr. Wojciechowski is fairly happy with the mandatory attendance for Highlander time.

"Students who have mandatory sessions have had a pretty good turnout," Wojciechowski said. "Obviously, we're not going to get 100 percent attendance." But students with Ds or Fs aren't the only ones who are seeing their teachers or getting work done. "We've also had success for students who are going on a voluntary basis," Wojciechowski said.

Wojciechowski thinks that Wednesday mornings give a good opportunity to meet for group projects if students can't meet at other times. As the year goes on and classes get more difficult, Wojciechowski thinks that students will use the time to keep up with extra work.

While many students use Highlander time merely to sleep in, some have used the time for extra study.

"I use Highlander time to do homework or sometimes to study in the cafeteria before school," senior Alex Sirlin said.

It has been difficult for administrators to measure the success of the program because the interim grades don't always give a good indication of grades.

"As we get further into the year," Wojociechowski said, "we'll continue to measure how well they're improving."

Teachers have made themselves available on Wednesday mornings, whether they have students with Ds or Fs or not. Math teacher Ms. Dauber has found the time useful because she is able to teach students who missed class, and have students take gateways or work on test corrections.

To learn more about the effectiveness of Highlander time, surveys were distributed to teachers. The surveys asked how teachers used Highlander time, whether it would be better to have a time during school instead of at the beginning, and asked if there were any ideas they had to improve Highlander time. Soon, surveys asking similar questions will be distributed to students as well.

"I prefered Friday late openings," junior Chris Nesbitt said, "just because it's kind of a reminder that the weekend is really close." Nesbitt has also found that it's easy to forget about the late opening in the middle of the week "sometimes I forget it's Highlander time and come in early anyway," Nesbitt said.

Wojciechowski is aware that Highlander time has room for improvement.

"Obviously it's not perfect," Wojciechowski said, "it's the first year of it, so it's a work in progress."