Delphos St. Johns Case Study

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Here at Delphos St. John’s it is scheduling season, the confusion and uncertainty is roaming through the minds of the students. With the school only offering the bare minimum of classes, students do not broaden their horizon and try new things. It is sad that students are not interested in the classes they sign up for. They just pick something to fill the schedule, not because they are interested in learning that material. Students are at a disadvantage when they go to college for the reason being they may not have as much experience as others, the students are not able to take classes to help for their future careers, and students are not investing their time into learning because they have no interest for it. We could start solving this problem by applying for grants, fundraising, and hiring more teachers that specialize in unique classes. Also, we could ask of the teachers to teach an elective during a free period. …show more content…
Johns would want for their students. Although the kids do learn the basics and necessities, it does not give them the extra experience that colleges like seeing on applications. Also kids may want to do more hands on learning or life lesson learning, but as a school they just don’t offer many classes that do that for the kids. The students are the one’s affected by this mostly because they still have to make a career and future for themselves. Teachers may have to suffer and teach one more class, but that really does not affect them in a bad way. The lack of money is the common problem for not being able to do things to improve our school. If they were able to find a way to efficiently provide more electives then it would make the St. John's students

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