Students say goodbye to Atom Time
Critics of Atom Time said the time was too unstructured for students who would often use their phones for Twitter and Instagram.
In 2011 AHS made the change to go from Flex to Atom Time and now AHS is changing it back. AHS will now have W4 from 8:53 a.m. to 9:18 a.m. followed by Flex from 9:23 a.m. to 10:21 a.m. Flex will start on Wednesday Sept. 17 with students going to R1.
The students will have W4 for 25 minutes and then they will go to their Flex class.
Flex is a period when you go to a specific class for 57 minutes instead of staying in W4 the whole time. Each Flex period will change every white day.
In the month of September the students will only have one Flex period. Although these changes are beneficial to the faculty, the students don’t feel as though this will be a good change.
“I think that Flex is a hinderance on how the students have free time during the day”, junior Kadijah Sesay said.
Without Atom Time, students feel as if they don’t have enough time during the school day to breathe. Even though students may not feel as enthusiastic as the teachers about this new change, it is a new change that we will all just have to live with.
Students who were in good standing were granted the opportunity to use it as their own free class.
They were given the privilege for getting good grades to go to the gym or to utilize the time to complete homework.
With that said, students will no longer have the opportunity to engage in something productive during their only free period. Even though students will be attending these extra classes, the teachers are not permitted to teach new material but simply just go over old material that the students have already learned.
The administration is looking at its new policy to make sure that the changes are an appropriate fit for students. “
“We are going to take this year to take as much time as possible to do research, brainstorm, and try and create a plan so we can intervene with all of our studentsl,” Principal Vincent Randazzo said. “We had hoped that Atom Time [could] accomplish that for us in the past, but the information from that program did not demonstrate those results in and out of school.”
“I’m not looking at it as a loss of Atom Time, said Randazzo. “I’m looking at it as an opportunity.”
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