Is it easy to change your teachers/classes?

AUGirl
Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:03:56 +0000

It really depends on your school.

At my school, you’re pretty much screwed if you want a different teacher… but the same course. We’re so tiny that one teacher teaches every class. I mean… we have two history teachers and two English teachers… so in those departments, you don’t have a choice. [Even in AP US History this year… the same teacher also taught Honors US History… and with it being a required course, I had absolutely no option.]

However… at my school if you want to change courses, it is really, really, really easy. You just go see the guidance counselor and she changes your schedule. Like, this year, I decided to drop out of AP Chemistry, but I didn’t want to take a study hall. So, instead of going to AP Chem that day, I went and saw the guidance counselor and told her that I didn’t want to just take a study hall, but I wanted to drop AP Chem. I asked her what class she recommended that I take without having to change my class, and she’s like “Well the only one that might interest you is Philosophy. Go try it out for a day and see if you like it and make sure to tell your chem teacher that you dropped his class.” So I said okay, dropped by my AP Chem class and said I dropped it and then walked into Philosophy… I stayed in that class for the rest of the year and it was a GPA boost for me.

If I were in my local public school… that would have been impossible. They don’t allow course changes unless absolutely necessary.