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Timeline for Planning

January 2006 -- The Program of Studies is distributed in homerooms. Students are to start their course selection planning with their parent during this period.

January 25 -- 8th grade parent meeting with school counselors.

February 9 -- 8th grade parent meeting with department directors.

January 17-March 10 (HS) and January 30-March 10 (MS) -- Students will be scheduled to meet with their counselors, review their teachers' recommendations and make their course selections.

April 3 -- Program selections are mailed home for parental review and discussion.

April 10-May 12 -- Students will be informed of schedule conflicts, and meet with counselors and department directors to resolve those conflicts.

July 5 -- List of students' courses for 2006-07 are mailed home with report cards.

July 6-August 25 -- Students may make course changes with parental approval.

First Day of School -- Students receive schedules in homeroom.

Additional Info. -- Students should be aware that, except under the most compelling of circumstances, they will not be permitted to drop courses until they have completed the fifth week in the course. This applies to both first and second semester courses and full-year courses. Students may add a course to an existing free period during the first seven school days.

     
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