Transportation Problems Cause Shift in Bell Schedule

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Megan Henry
January 20, 2010
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The new bell schedule cutting two minutes out of each passing period was made in order to reduce tardies and absences from students coming from Ben Barber. The schedule is primarily focused on students who attend Mansfield High School and Timberview High School and were often late to their home campus when they came from Ben Barber.

“There’s not much of a change,” Mr. Trammell said. “If you use the passing period to pass, not visit, you’ll make it.”

Ben Barber is not centrally located therefore the control office decided to tweak to schedule to eliminate tardy problems for the other high schools.

“Mansfield and Timberview students would be on time if they didn’t go out of their way to get something to eat,” Abby Gieger, 11 said. “If you want to go out to eat don’t complain.”

Passing periods were shortened to five minutes rather than the previous seven.

“Every kid should make adjustments,” Mr. Trammell said. “If I was a student I would go to class and visit right outside the classroom.”

The major alterations in the schedule are the shorter passing periods and additional ten minutes during A lunch.

“We have great kids that will do whatever they need to do,” Mr. Trammell said. “It’s a habit of knowing to get to class.”

Click here  to see the new schedule

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