PRO/CON: Advisory Changes...

Jordan Hartman - Sophomore

     If you’ve been at Eisenhower for a while now, you’ve probably noticed the changes that came with the back-to-school hype. With advisory changes being one of the more notable ones, not everyone is happy with having to switch up their normal schedule.

     To all the freshmen who have no clue what I’m talking about, for the last few years, we all had randomly assigned advisory teachers. We were meant to stay with those teachers for the rest of our four years at IKE (or so I was told) to do Xello, work on our resume, and do other, duller, advisory activities. I was one of the unlucky fellows to end up in the gym for an advisory - which ended up causing a lot of trouble on the days when we had assemblies and needed to go to advisory first. Trust me, I was marked absent for that class a lot!

     This year, however, we’ve all been assigned our second-period teachers as our advisory teachers. Which, if you don’t know already, means we will be staying in our second period for an additional half an hour. Now, I’m not entirely sure why this was implemented this year, but I’ve heard from multiple of my teachers that it was a schoolwide decision to get students more connected with their advisory teachers. With advisory teachers only being seen maybe once a week for half an hour at most, teachers weren’t given much time to learn about each and every one of their students.

     All in all, it’s not necessarily a bad change, but it’s surely something we need to grow used to. Some people were meant to be in a specific advisory this year, and while that certainly didn’t happen due to this decision, it only proves that sometimes we need to problem-solve in life. Even then, advisory is always available to be changed again next year.

Mia Rodriguez - Junior

     Why did advisory classes change? Why would they change a teacher some student have had for years? Well, some teachers unfortunately got fired last school year, and counselors wanted students to have an advisory teacher that already have a class with them. Which is pretty stupid knowing that some students got really comfortable with their teacher throughout the years just for them not to have them anymore. 

     Starting a new school year with a new advisory teacher isn't the easiest thing, especially if you had amazing teachers that helped you with stuff in life. But having new students isn't the easiest thing, also, since you have new students, you have new names to learn, new personalities to understand, new everything. 

     Some teachers were ready to see their students graduate, ready to see them succeed in life, ready to see them out in the real world. When it all just came crashing down when they’ll no longer have them as advisory students. This new “rule” isn’t the best thing ever, it’s not what anyone wanted. This isn’t saying that students don’t deserve their teachers, although it is really important to have an adult in school that you can trust. It sucks knowing you’ll have a new teacher every year from now on.