This school year the district decided to go by "semesters" this year. It's not an easy transition due to having trimesters for so long, but I would say the students here at Kennedy High School are doing the best they can.
With a new semester being, the finals are filled with a lot more information that us students need to remember. Our daily routine is the same as they have always been, it's just that we don't get fresh start with a new term three times, now we only get two.
Along with the changes of having our school year be spilt up into semesters, our breaks during the year change as well.
Our Thanksgiving break is only 5 days long this year. We get three days of school off along with a two day weekend. We used to get a whole week off with finals being right before. It was our break along with a new start to school and we didn't have to worry about any homework.
Another break that has changed is our Christmas break. Christmas is now exactly two weeks long, but we still have to worry about homework and finals since they are two weeks after we get back. It's nice getting that much time off, but with all that time off tends students to forget more of what they have been learning before.
The last break that is changed is Spring break. It doesn't change much just that it is a week earlier this year. Spring break is now during March 12 to March 20.
There are clearly ups and downs to this new semester thing and to the breaks but as the years go by they will hopefully be able to tweak it to everyone's liking for the future high school students.
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