At the high school level, students/parents are given the opportunity to request courses they would like to take each year. Finalizing your requests occurs each year towards the end of January through the middle of February. We develop our master schedule of course offerings, hire teachers and determine the number of sections for each course from what our students request through this process.
As outlined below, there are several opportunities for students and parents to gain a better understanding of the course request process through parent and student information sessions and a one-on-one parent conference to finalize the selections.
Schedule changes are not permitted unless: there are extenuating circumstances, if there is a required class that needs to be taken or the student has already taken/passed the class.
We encourage students to challenge themselves by taking honors, AP (Advanced Placement) or Dual Credit (College Level) courses. We currently have over 50% of our students in honors or beyond courses.
Events that are coming up to be aware of and/or mark your calendar to attend:
Thursday, January 30th:
Cooper HS Field Trip for all incoming freshman. We are coordinating this with all of our feeder middle schools (Ballyshannon, Gray, Ockerman and Camp Ernst). Your child will spend approximately 90 minutes in the Cooper auditorium for an orientation of scheduling classes. They will be transported via school buses to Cooper. Students will receive a Course
Guide and a Course Request Sheet during this time.
Thursday, January 30th:
Parent Information Night for our incoming freshman parents. This begins @ 6:30 p.m. in our auditorium. Please bring the course guide that your student received from the field trip to Cooper. We will have content area teachers available after the meeting to answer any specific questions you may have. Plan on spending about 90 minutes with us; 60 minutes for the meeting and 30 minutes for specific questions with content area teachers.
Wed, Feb 12th and Thurs, Feb 13th:
We have set aside parent conferences on both of these dates, in the evening, so we can provide one-on-one mentoring and advising to finalize your child's schedule. The 15-minute parent conference
is designed to answer any further questions you have and to give one final look over what courses you, your child and teachers are requesting for next school. If there is a course the teacher is requesting your child to take that you feel is not the best fit, we will have a challenge form for parents to fill out and sign.
Parents will sign off on the course request at the end of the parent conference on either
Feb. 12th or 13th.
Be looking for either a phone call or an e-mail (Sign-Up Genius) from one of our teachers asking you to select a time that works best with your schedule.
The time frame for both days is from 3:30pm-7:00pm
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I look forward to seeing you at these upcoming events!
