The new schedule at LHS has caused some controversy ever since school started. Students and faculty alike are finding themselves confused by the constantly changing periods.

Many at LHS have expressed concern with the changes that have been made to how the week runs. Instead of having ad room every day, cuts have been made so that it is only twice a week. Because of this, the regular school week has an altered schedule. During Tuesdays and Thursdays ad room is in session, Mondays and Wednesdays do not have ad room and Friday has the usual altered schedule due to first period starting later than the other days. It might read somewhat simple, but juggling the fluctuating schedule has proved difficult for many.

“Well, I think that compared to last year, it’s a lot more confusing,” said LHS senior Jonathan Overstreet. “I frequently have to [check] the schedule in my phone…Times were simpler last year when I did not worry about missing class.”

Students are not the only ones who have been confused about the period changes. Band director Dan Carlson has also expressed how he feels about the new agenda.

“The one thing that I still struggle with is just keeping track of what day it is. And it is tough to remember where we’re at with the whole thing,” said Carlson.

Despite the fact that every day seems to be a sort of a maze to work through, there are actually some good qualities about it. Ad room had already been questioned in years past because of how much time it takes up, but nothing was done about it. When Grimm came to LHS, however, the rules finally changed. So why did Grimm want to get rid of ad room?

“Because I don’t like ad room,” said Grimm. “I wanted to do away with it completely and just have our regular Monday through Thursday schedule and our Friday collaboration schedule. But some teachers love ad room so I split the difference.”

Even though people are disorganized due to the change, some still see its value.

“I like the fact that we’re not spending as much time in ad room,” said Carlson. “I feel like there are necessary things we need to communicate during ad room. And then there are times when there’s a lot of sitting around and a lot of time maybe not being so well spent.”

Both Carlson and Overstreet admitted to being discombobulated by the way school has been running, but both seem to have an understanding as to why changes were made.

“I think that I’ve never found ad room to be very necessary… cutting away ad room for two days a week is totally fine with me,” said Overstreet.

It might be a hassle for teachers to check what time classes are supposed to end every day, but for the most part everything is fairly straightforward. The reason that the school days were altered was to better the academic efficiency at LHS as a whole. Hopefully people start to catch on to how things are gonna flow from now on, even though it is confusing.

“But we’re all pretty smart,” said Grimm. “It’s not that hard.”