Student Locker In High School
There are many things I would advise to the current eighth grade class. There are many differences for them to be aware of. Some of those are the futility of the student locker, the major change to AB schedules, and the many different paths and opportunities that are allowed in High School. The student locker is almost completely useless. One may use it once or twice a semester, and then it is only used for very specific things, like getting colored pencils or getting tab dividers. There are very little occasions where you will need to use your locker. The main reasons it isn’t used are the ability to carry around a backpack, and the complexity and lack of quality that is rather consistent throughout the lockers. As there is the ability to easily and quickly carry necessities around in a backpack, it becomes very infrequent that the locker is used, if ever. Another piece of advice would be that of a consistent but changing schedule. There are two main
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While you are a freshman you are forced to take many classes: American History, ELA I or Honors ELA I, Physical Science, and Algebra I, or Honors Algebra I and/or Geometry if you had taken Algebra one this year. Nevertheless, you still get a choice of half of your classes as a freshman, and almost all for years to come. One thing that should be taken as a freshman is PE, as 1 credit is required to graduate. A lot of people also have a co-curricular that they do as well, like band, choir, or debate that is basically required as well. While it may seem that you really only get one choice freshman year, it gets much better as time progresses. For this reasons, I feel that these are things that the current eighth grade class should be made aware of. The facts are that if they are not aware of these things, it will be a big shock to them when they get here find figure out the realities of the material that they thought they
While you are a freshman you are forced to take many classes: American History, ELA I or Honors ELA I, Physical Science, and Algebra I, or Honors Algebra I and/or Geometry if you had taken Algebra one this year. Nevertheless, you still get a choice of half of your classes as a freshman, and almost all for years to come. One thing that should be taken as a freshman is PE, as 1 credit is required to graduate. A lot of people also have a co-curricular that they do as well, like band, choir, or debate that is basically required as well. While it may seem that you really only get one choice freshman year, it gets much better as time progresses. For this reasons, I feel that these are things that the current eighth grade class should be made aware of. The facts are that if they are not aware of these things, it will be a big shock to them when they get here find figure out the realities of the material that they thought they