As students begin to cram for AP tests beginning next Monday, it is no surprise that they are looking forward to the weeks after where there is not much to do in their AP classes. Unfortunately, that is not the case anymore. Teachers will still be covering material and doing activities along with putting in grades.

After the test, AP macroeconomics students will be doing a project focused on the housing collapse of 2008 along with the events that followed. For teacher Steven Blankenship, the shortened schedule made it even more difficult to fit all the information into an already semester long class.

“The new schedule made it difficult to spend time on connecting the economic theories we learned about in class to what is happening currently in the US economy,” said Blankenship. “I had to cut that part of the class out so that we had enough time to cover the material before the AP test.”

AP science classes are also adjusting to the new schedule. AP environmental science will be doing a “solar cooker cook-off” while AP chemistry will be doing four new labs along with going over the AP free response questions once they are released. Both teachers gave summer assignments along with doing more in class work in order to make up for lost time.

AP Literature teacher Susan Bull has also had to find material to cover for the last few weeks of school.

“AP Psych and AP Lit are doing a cross-curricular unit with an American classic from the 1960s, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ which is set in a mental institution and explores themes and topics of relevance in both disciplines,” said Bull.

Although the material in AP classes will be new and interesting, the new schedule has taken a toll on both the teachers and the students.

“I hate the new schedule, but am trying to adapt and hope it gets better over time,” said Bull. “I hope we return to the pre-vote schedule when this gig is up in a couple of years. It has been stressful for me and for my students.”