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Clarke County High School presents scheduling options; staff favor keeping eight-period day
Summary
Principal and high-school staff reviewed multiple scheduling models — including 8-period, 4x4 block and alternating AB block — and recommended retaining the current eight-period day after surveying staff; board asked for further faculty input before a decision.
Clarke County High School staff presented the school’s scheduling review to the Clarke County School Board on Tuesday, describing trade-offs among multiple models and reporting staff survey results that favored the current eight-period day.
Dana Waring, principal at Clarke County High School, introduced administrators and counselors and summarized student demographics and program offerings that complicate schedule changes, including dual-enrollment partnerships with Blue Ridge Community College and Laurel Ridge Community College, an expanded apprenticeship/internship program and participation in Mount Vista Governor’s School. “We have to look at the needs of all students and not just one or two groups of students,” Waring told the board.
Waring and counselors outlined seven scheduling options discussed internally: a traditional six-period day (rare in Virginia), a seven-period day, a 4x4 semester block (90-minute periods), an alternating AB block (90-minute periods on alternating days), an…
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