D-Day at Stoughton High School

Students who in previous years have been able to drop by in the weeks leading up to the school year to get their schedules, will instead receive them on the first day of school, Tuesday, September 6, SHS Principal Matt Colantonio said.

The decision to release the schedules on the first day, and not prior to the opening of school, was “very deliberative,” Colantonio said.

He said the school’s scheduling team spent the summer perfecting the schedules—minimizing mistakes and potential scheduling conflicts that may arise, giving students their core, required classes, yet also maximizing their opportunity to take their desired electives.

“I think people want a complete schedule,” Colantonio said as to why the schedules are being released on the first day.

He did not think releasing the schedules on day one would lead to an increase in the number of students heading to guidance at the end of the first day, looking to fix their schedule.

“If you do it right, we should not have a flood of issues,” he said.

Students signed up for which classes they wanted to take for the 2011-2012 school year during the last school year.

When students do receive their schedules they will see a noticeable tweak.

The nomenclature on the periods and days in the schedule has been flipped. But once students get used to D-Day and Period 4, instead of having Day 4 and D-Period, the actual flow of the schedule is unchanged.

“It’s the exact same schedule, except letters are numbers and numbers are letters,” Colantonio said.

Colantonio said the switch from numbered days and lettered to periods to lettered days and numbered periods is something that works more efficiently with the new Student Information Management System (SIMS), known as Power School, which organizes everything from grades to lunch accounts to scheduling.

Also new this school year will be a Parent Portal, which will give parents the chance to opt into a system that will allow them to view their child’s schedule and grades and receive progress reports and other updates from the school.

Colantonio said information on the Parent Portal would be sent home the first day of school.

Check the media gallery for the 2011-2012 bell schedule at SHS. Click here to see the master list of homebase classrooms by grade and the special schedule that will be used for the first two days of school.