Written By: Hannah Nasluchacz, Staff Writer
CLASSES: Poly students reflect on the process of choosing their classes for next year.
During the month of February, counselors pulled all of the Poly students from their English course to have them select the classes they would like to attend next school year. This started out by each class walking to the library where all the counselors gathered. Each student had an assigned seat based on their last name and designated counselor. The process started out with a counselor talking to the entire group of students through circling classes on the paper they received before this session started. Once all the students circled their desired classes on paper, they told all the students to pause so they could watch the instructional video about inputting the selection into Aeries student portal. “I was concerned whether or not I was going to like [my classes,” student Hannah Griggs (10) expressed. The video went into detail about inputting each class’s unique codes and adding both semesters onto the page. Once the video concluded, all of the students began to copy the process, demonstrated in the video, for their own classes. While they were doing this, each student’s counselors were walking around to support and discuss their decisions. Student, Hayley Bullock (11), was “glad [course selection] was over, but at the same time sad knowing this was the last time picking classes.” After the course selection process, students remained in the library and did classwork, homework, or just talked. Student, Maya Gutierrez (11), who is excited to select classes for senior year because “[she] gets to pick everything [she] want[s].”
Poly High School’s Library
Some students at Poly are dreading their last year of high school and having to navigate the outside world. Caleb Phillips (11) explains that “this is [his] last time picking [his] free classes”. Poly’s students are realizing that they are “not ready to be an adult,” Kassandra Rodriguez (11) mentions, while sitting outside in the 600 quad.
Choosing classes at Poly is an event that forces students to talk about their education and lives that are being built. This is one of many moments in high school that gives students a feeling of control over their own education.
The paper that current juniors circled from to go into their senior year.