by Mackenzie Hill, sports editor
Most students understand the difficulty of changing classes in a new semester, but it turns out that teachers do too. A few fountain valley teachers have new semester changes ranging from switching to teach more of a certain grade level, to teaching an entirely different subject.
Just as the students are leveled in a new semester from dropped or added classes, the teachers have a leveling factor as well.
When some teachers need a “schedule change” other teachers also have to change their class schedule in order to suit all faculty involved.
Deborah Brown, a science teacher at fountain valley, has recently experienced one of these “schedule changes” in order to help fill a schedule change for another science teacher, Jennifer Allen.
Brown started off the school year by teaching five periods of chemistry in the community (chem comm) and having a preparatory third period. But with the recent schedule change, she now has four periods of chem comm and a period of biology during third period. This also includes Brown’s dispersing the students in Brown’s 6th period chem comm into other classes.
Brown has taught both chem comm and biology in the past and states that it’s really no issue for her, just a slight adjustment.
The only issue Brown really sees is with the students and their schedule changes.
There is also a small issue with Brown and keeping track of her new students, but it’s something she says is normal with the start of a new semester.
Other teachers have also had slight changes in their class schedules, but as stated before by Brown, it is as routine just as it is for students.
Brown also stated that she loves to teach both subjects,even at the same time, and that it is really no trouble. The classes work accordingly and the students eventually adjust just as they would at the beginning of a new year.
“I love it. I’ve done it for many years and two different preps doesn’t really affect me… through time all the students and I get to know each other in the new semester,” said Brown.
