Freaky Fridays

Shortened classes are stirring up quite a buzz on the last day of the week. With only 35 minute classes, teachers are racing around to cram in the day’s lessons. Mixing the regular seminar schedule with the earlier release is a trial run this year, and it’s causing students and teachers alike to be slightly frazzled.

“I actually enjoy it,” Said Hartland freshman Natalie Batton, regarding the early end on fridays. “The times during the day are sort of confusing, but It’s nice to get a break before after school sports. It gives me time to do homework.”

Other members of athletic sports and after school activities feel the same way. However, teachers have a different take on Fridays. In the old schedule, students got entire Fridays off while teachers had to work. Jamie Martin, one of the Biology teachers in Hartland High school expressed her appreciation for the hour early releases this year.

“That hour, it does matter,” Martin said. “We [the teachers] have some time to get together, discuss the good and bad of the day, and collaborate on how to improve the bad.”

Seminar on friday, however, throws an odd turn into the end of the week. Students are more well adjusted, while teachers who have been running in the same schedule for over four years have some adjusting to do.

“It’s not necessarily a bad thing,” Martin said. “Sure it will take some time, but i’m sure it will be beneficial in the long run.”

Unique from the regular 2:20 every other week, students are excited about getting out of school an hour early on fridays this year.

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