The Scheduler

I recently had some problems with the schedule in my school. It's not particularly big or anything but it just been bugging me a whole lot.

So I've been thinking for a bit about how to correct this program, here's my solutions:

The problem this year seems to be that classes or pretty much either over packed or the periods are not spread out enough for you to have a good schedule (i.e. everything you want is in 4th period, thus you can't have a lot of your classes).

I think the first part of this problem might be due to some budget cuts this year in the state but I haven't heard about any teachers getting laid off, so I don't think that is that main culprit. I suspect that the people up at the front desk may have slacked off and didn't really estimate correctly during the previous school year on the class size.

Maybe I'm thinking this is too easy but here goes: For math, this is the easiest part to resolve (yet Mrs. Johnson's class is STILL packed... making me not able to switch... grr), just take a number of "A's/B's" in the classes. Or better yet, just ask the teacher the number they think will continue into the classes. AP stats and AP Calc should be quite easy as it is by teacher sign off only (and I think most APs are quite easy to estimate the sizes, with exception to the sciences).

English should be even easier, for upcoming freshmen/sophomores, just look at the class sizes and spread them out... I think there were a bit of a problem with the classes bunched up tight.And the upperclassmen, figure out the number of possible AP classes and do the same thing as in math.

For science... they should've spread the classes out, espiceally the APs. This way, there will be minimal chance for there to have a schedule conflict. Also another possible thing is to release "premilnary" periods for set classes, like band, Engineering Tech periods, orchestra periods, and the possible places for APs so we can plan for our classes to work out the best.

Anyways... this is just what I think... I personally think this won't work out that well, people will started talking with each other to have the exact same schedule, making classes a pain in the butt. Suggestions?

-runiteking1

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