Students at Stamford High have become accustomed to change; new teachers, courses, rules, and forms to fill out. To mix things up, this year the city’s high schools have thrown in another schedule change.

Last year the first rotating schedule was put into effect, and was generally disliked for a few weeks before becoming tolerable to most students. Over the months, they forgot about it and moved on with their academic lives. When students returned to school this year they were met with yet another schedule change, though this time on a smaller scale. It is the same basic structure as before: changing long periods every day, always dropping a class. But the main change is the order of the dropped classes; it is reversed.

Student opinion regarding the new change is generally mixed. Some upperclassman are upset about it. “I do get kind of confused sometimes, and I miss dropping a class and not seeing it for a long time,” said senior Sabrina Petrafesa. Senior Hardik Mistry said that he is “perfectly fine with it,” and said there are many kids around the school that share that opinion.

School administration sees it a different way. Mr. Forker explained that the goal for this change is to have more face-to-face time between students and teachers; he wants to see the change “maximizing the time for kids to be with teachers.”And while there are many other changes in the school that have captivated the students attention, this particular change seems to be the one that everyone is most hung up on. It’s just one more thing the students will have to get used to, and like many other things, we will become used to it and it will drift to the back of our minds.