Schedule to change

NEW BELL SCHEDULE for next school year is being drafted due to instructional minute concerns.

According to Palo Alto High School Assistant Principal Erik Olah, the bell schedule committee is picking between pushing Advisory to the end of the day or a double prime.

“I don’t see any big structural changes [to PRIME],” Olah said.

Olah said the committee will consider student and staff opinions through a bell schedule survey.

“The survey is a chance for students and staff to give feedback,” Olah said. “From there the superintendent decides the final schedule.”

by RAHUL SHETTY and ANDY ROBINSON

guage but it’s hard to pick up the material, it’s unfair for someone to have to automatically go to AP.”

The change in pathways may affect Carlsen’s plans to continue learning French at Paly.

“At the beginning of this year, I was confident that I was gonna go to French [4],” Carlsen said. “Now I’m a bit more hesitant just because of what it [AP French] would entail.”

Despite student concerns, Guerard said the removal of levels 4 and 4H will have little impact on the World Language curricula.

“I would think [student readiness] is about the same,” Guerard said. “It just offers a different path for students in looking at their schedules and being able to balance them out. If you don’t want an AP class your junior year, but you still want to have something that’s a little challenging, you could pick the … Civilization and Culture [course].”

by LIA CARDWELL

LEARNING LANGUAGES — Palo Alto High School Japanese teacher Teruko Kamikihara teaches Kanji to her students. While some world language staff say that the removal of the level 4 language lane won’t disrupt students’ learning, sophomore Rohan Bhatia said he believes that he may not be ready for AP Japanese having taken Japanese 3 this year. “If I was planning to continue, Level 3 to AP seems like a giant jump, and Level 4 to AP seems much more attainable,” Bhatia said.

BIG SHOES TO FILL — Palo Alto High School freshman and midfielder Yara Chaib celebrates after putting the girls soccer team up 1-0 against crosstown rivals Henry M. Gunn High School. The team would go on to win 2-0 after a hard-fought battle. “[Our season] has been really rough,” Chaib said. “This game was really important to us, especially against our rivals, and we beat them at home, so it was awesome.”