With the upcoming scheduling for next year, students are looking forward to the classes. Reporters pulled some underclassmen aside to ask them what classes they are looking forward to taking.
Miley Counelis, freshman answered with, “I’m going to take American Sign Language (ASL) and I’m excited about that. I haven’t really thought about this much.”
ASL is an up-and-coming popular class, and more and more students are taking it.
Ava Salem, junior expressed, “right now the class I’m looking forward to taking is AP Bio, and I really want to take ACAP, I don’t know if I’ll be able to. I want to take zoology again, I really like that class.”
ACAP stands for acapella, ACAP is a choir program that kids audition for. They get to perform concerts with a wide variety of songs.
Mary-Jane, sophomore, “I’m really excited for the DEEP program, dual enrollment. I’m not really sure just having more AP programs open.”
The DEEP program is a dual enrollment class. The program allows you to take college courses while in high school. Kearsley has been expanding they electives, yet there are still some seniors who want a few more in different areas such as Jamie Crolis, senior she says, “maybe more language electives. I’d like to see some Slavic languages, more like Russian, just stuff we haven’t seen.”
On a similar beat, Maxx Handly talked about electives in a different set of skill areas.
Maxx Handly, senior said, “a wood shop, that would be cool.” It would be great if Kearsley offered more skilled trades classes.
Kearsley doesn’t offer many different trade electives, but the school does have Bike Tech. Bike Tech is a class where students learn all about bikes and how to fix them.
Emma Fessler, senior said, “I wish we had like a cooking class, I think that would be really fun. Especially for people who are graduating who are going out on their own, a lot of people need to know how to make food for themselves or if they have roommates or something. I would want to learn how to cook and bake and all that stuff.”
Home Economics used to be incredibly popular among schools, but slowly faded out of popularity and other electives took its place. Kearsley may not have a home economics class, but they do have other life classes that focus on computer repair, computer security, and emerging tech.
There may not be classes that teach traditional life skills, but there are life skills that students value that Kearsley has classes for like accounting, marketing, and public speaking. Kearley is always expanding their number of classes and reaching into different types of fields and interests for each new student who walks through the high school doors.
