Advisory was the talk of the halls every Friday since it was implemented this Fall. The student body seems to be evenly split in their emotions regarding the schedule change.

Advisory schedule altered the day for students and employees on some Fridays to explain concepts that teens struggle with on a daily basis. This was implemented last year in order to fix scheduling complications with HCTC

Due to a five minute reduction to all classes, some students took issue with a lack of class time.

“I feel like advisory takes away from the time I use to do my work,” sophomore Maddie Russel said.

Others felt as if this extension could be used for a better purpose.

“I don’t know, I think that the time used for advisory could be used for like a pep rally or just some time for us to care for our mental health,” sophomore Sarah Pardo said.

However, other students said that this is a good use of the allotted time.

“There’s a lot of positives coming out of advisory,” junior Emily Frost said. “Students have been getting more information about very important and serious things going on around the world.”

According to Pardo, this time isn’t helping students learn about serious topics at all and is instead just taking away time from the learning environment.

“I usually just get on my phone,” Pardo said.

Despite the negative opinions about the advisory period in itself, students could agree that they don’t mind the change in schedule one bit.
“I don’t mind the schedule, it’s just that maybe we should do something different with the advisory period,” Russel said, “like make it a half day or something.”
Frost suggested that the advisory period has good messages about what teenagers should be looking out for, but it misses the mark since it doesn’t engage the student or teacher.
“I just know that me and a lot of people have problems with our attention spans so it’s a struggle, you know?” Frost said. “I think without learning what we do in advisory, we’d just be sitting around doing nothing. So, I think using the time to absorb as much information as possible is very helpful.”
Pardo disagreed, saying that the information itself was redundant. “It’s like a waste of our time. Most people already know this stuff, don’t they?” she said.

Due to a five minute reduction to all classes, some students took issue with a lack of class time.