The schedule for the 2024-25 school year will not include Crew, Flex Block or the Monday schedule.
It will be an eight-period schedule. There will be four, 90-minute periods per day. School days will alternate between even classes and odd classes. The school day will continue to begin at 8:20 a.m., and classes will end at 3:10 p.m. every day. After-school activities, such as clubs and conferences, will occur from 3:10 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Blocks two and three will both be lunch periods, with both comprising two, 30-minute lunch periods. “Four lunch periods every day [will] significantly reduce the number of students in the cafeteria,” Principal Eric Juli stated in a March 1 email to staff. There will also be a 17-minute window between each lunch period to prevent students from crowding the hallway while waiting to enter the cafeteria. Crowds in the 209-222 hallway have been the case for the last three years as custodians scramble to clean the cafeteria before the next lunch begins.
The schedule committee, which includes teachers from each department, began work on the schedule in early November.
In a survey administered during the Dec. 7, 2023 Crew meeting, 16.7 percent of the 830 students who responded said they would prefer every class to meet every day; 35.1 percent said they would prefer the current schedule to continue; and 34.6 percent preferred longer classes that meet every other day.
Sophomore Jack Blouir said he does not like the elimination of the Monday schedule. “I like Mondays. They’re hard to sit through, but having them — I think — is important, because you get all of your work, you meet with all your teachers and it kind of sets you up for the week,” Blouir said.
Junior Surah Marquit said she likes the decision to omit the Monday schedule. “I think it’s a good thing because kids really struggle with missing Mondays because that means you miss every single class,” Marquit said.
In the same survey, 53.5 percent of respondents said they would prefer an eight-period schedule, with the other 46.5 percent preferring a seven-period schedule.
Junior Zoe Stiefel said she prefers the change to eight periods. “I think it allows us to broaden opportunities for what we want to take; there are so many opportunities for electives at this school,” Stiefel said.
In the March 1 email, Juli said, “We can do anything we want in a schedule, but we cannot do everything we want. Every master schedule is filled with compromises and this one is no different.”
