Schedule Change Policy

It is important for students to make accurate initial course selections.  Students initiating changes to their courses will be limited in the following manner:

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v      Final schedules will be completed prior to the start of each semester.

v      Students must be enrolled in six class assignments per semester.

v      When the semester begins, students may request to drop/add a course within three school days only for the following reasons:

t       The student has not completed necessary prerequisite coursework.

t       The student requires a different course as the result of a failure in a previous course.

t       There is agreement among the student’s guidance counselor, a building administrator and affected teacher(s) that the student’s educational program will be improved by a course change.

t       The student is required to change a class section or course as a result of meeting any of the above criteria.

v      Some examples of schedule change requests which may not be deemed acceptable include a desire to change from the assigned teacher, course requests that are unbalanced for a given semester, concerns about students enrolled in a given course, and the desire to change lunch or RAP periods.

v      Requests explaining the educational rationale for students to make schedule changes after the three day period must be made in writing by the student and his/her parent or guardian to the guidance counselor.

v      The counselor will review the request with a building administrator to determine if the request will be honored.

The following criteria will be used to approve schedule change requests:

v      The teacher recommends that the student is inappropriately placed in a course.

v      There is agreement among the student’s guidance counselor, a building administrator, and affected teacher(s) that the student’s educational program will be improved by a course change.  If an agreement among the above parties cannot be reached, a building administrator will make the final decision regarding the student’s program.

v      The student is required to change a class section or a course as a result of meting any of the above criteria.

v      Students who choose to drop a course without approval after the three-day period will receive the grade of “F” for the semester.