Change South Milwaukee High School's schedule back to 5 block for the 2021-2022 school yr

The Issue

Dr. Fleig became the principal at South Milwaukee High School during the 2019-2020 year and he decided to change our scheduling from 5 block to the 8 period scheduling, which is what the middle school currently has. He gave us a survey asking us which schedule we would rather have, and our decision didn't matter in the end because he changed it to what he wanted, and most of the school didn't want the change. The reason we want to keep 5 Block Scheduling is because it will only make it harder for everyone at the school, for example most of the "important" (English, Math, etc.) classes are only for 1 semester, then the other "important" classes would be the next semester, and we can't double up our classes either (taking a higher level class the semester after you took the first one, example: Taking Biology Science the first semester and Chemistry the second semester) If we switch to 8 period scheduling, that wouldn't be possible, a lot of kids want to double up either to be ahead or they might be behind in their classes and it makes it a little easier for them to catch up. Also then we would have to take all of those classes everyday for the entire year and it'll just add so much more stress than all of us already have from all the other things going on in our lives and I believe that if we keep it at 5 block scheduling then us kids will not be as stressed as we could be if this change hits next year.

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The Issue

Dr. Fleig became the principal at South Milwaukee High School during the 2019-2020 year and he decided to change our scheduling from 5 block to the 8 period scheduling, which is what the middle school currently has. He gave us a survey asking us which schedule we would rather have, and our decision didn't matter in the end because he changed it to what he wanted, and most of the school didn't want the change. The reason we want to keep 5 Block Scheduling is because it will only make it harder for everyone at the school, for example most of the "important" (English, Math, etc.) classes are only for 1 semester, then the other "important" classes would be the next semester, and we can't double up our classes either (taking a higher level class the semester after you took the first one, example: Taking Biology Science the first semester and Chemistry the second semester) If we switch to 8 period scheduling, that wouldn't be possible, a lot of kids want to double up either to be ahead or they might be behind in their classes and it makes it a little easier for them to catch up. Also then we would have to take all of those classes everyday for the entire year and it'll just add so much more stress than all of us already have from all the other things going on in our lives and I believe that if we keep it at 5 block scheduling then us kids will not be as stressed as we could be if this change hits next year.

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the south milwaukee district
the south milwaukee district
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