Senior Keegan Crawford stated, “After being here for the past three years, I kind of grew to operate on block scheduling and how to operate with the teachers that had been around for awhile.” Even though these changes have brought joy along with sorrow, there is one way to find what changes would make the school the perfect learning environment: ask the students what they would change.
When the students were asked what changes they would make if able, they had two rules to abide by. One being that they were going to have to provide a sound reason for the change and the other being nothing dealing with the lunches, due to the fact that we all know we would change those if able.
In an attempt to get a view from someone who never experienced DCHS in its prior state, the scope was pointed toward a freshman at DCHS, Maddy Sutton. Sutton had a suggestion, “No more block days! We(freshmen) are used to having every class every day, and trying to change that is just weird. And we end up just putting off our homework for even longer than usual.” It is apparent among many freshmen that only having half of your classes on one day has a noticeable effect, and it’s not all reputable.
Sophomore Tanner Watson believes that the passing periods are not long enough. “There isn’t enough time to socialize!” After reminding him that school is a place of learning and not a time to be exuberantly social, he slyly responded with, “Yeah, but not giving us time to talk to our friends is going to decrease a large number of students’ attention spans in class.”
After returning from a trip to Boston to visit a reputable high school and study their ways of teaching, Mrs. Barajas, Spanish teacher, reported that the school of over 4,000 students had passing periods that lasted only four minutes. While you may be thinking that this is nothing out of the ordinary, it is. The school has four separate buildings all on one site, and the students can traverse between classes without arriving tardy. This did not take away from their character either, because Mrs. Barajas reported, “They were the most polite students that I have personally ever seen.”
A newcomer this year after attending school at Benton Central for his entire life, junior Aaron Madison had another idea to make the school an ideal place of education. He was unaccustomed to the small lockers that we have at DCHS. He said, “It’s hard to stay organized, which can result in being tardy and such.” By increasing the size of the lockers, it could promote better organization, and organization has been known to result in better grades and performance in class.
While all of these ideas were unique and had good reasoning, there has to be more ideas out there to better everyone at Delphi. If you personally have any ideas, comment below and make sure to leave a logical reason.
