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Welcome back, Everybody!!!
School year 2010-2011 is here! All hail the Seniors, Class of 2011!!!
And Aloha goes out to all other students, parents, teachers and staff!
Let's have a great year!
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Senior Portraits due by end of August!
Collages to go with your portrait pic also due.
See Ms. Moore in BB-101 asap for more info! |
For the time being, I'm just going to post on this page by date with the most recent words on top. I won't delete for the most part so that you can always scroll down to find something you might be interested in from before. Here goes...
8/31/10: Whew! Schedule changes are finished! That was a bear. Thank you students and parents for your patience with this process. Also, thank you for your understanding of Hilo High's policy regarding those changes. For any students listening, remember to choose your classes carefully during registration because, with few exceptions, those will be the classes you will have to take.
I'll be updating the College Visitation page frequently so check it often. The colleges that virtually every student should make time to see are Hawai'i Community College (HCC) and University of Hawai'i at Hilo (UHH). We are so incredibly fortunate to have these two colleges right in our living room! HCC's visit has not been scheduled yet, but this one will be well publicized. UHH's Curtis Nishioka will be coming on Sept. 16th. Don't miss his visit!
There will also be a college fair coming to Hilo on November 17th and 18th. The 17th will be an evening session for parents and students. The 18th will be a morning excursion for students. The location will be Sangha Hall as it was last year.
Exciting times ahead! Stay tuned!!!
8/8/10: This time of year is always dominated by scheduling. For the seniors, at least, the registrar, registrar elect and I spent a good deal of time checking to make sure that everything a student needed to graduate was on their schedule from the get-go. I'm happy to report that we were pretty successful. There seemed to be a lot of issues around AP courses which most of which we've managed to work out.
Just so everyone is clear, there are a limited number of reasons for which Hilo High will allow schedule changes. These are spelled out in the registration guide. Generally, if there was a real mistake in which a student has two of the same courses on their schedule, a class which they have already taken or missing a core class altogether (and there aren't many of these), we try to make those changes first.
Beyond those reasons, if students have courses on their schedule which they requested at registration, no change will be made. The reason is that the master schedule of courses is based on the courses requested on the registration form. Changes made after the master schedule is built lead to imbalances
in class sizes, e.g. some classes become overfilled and some shrink so far that we probably shouldn't have made the course in the first place. So that's the reasoning.
Students who expect to come in the fall, look around, and request schedule changes, often for dubious reasons, will be disappointed. If the course was on their registration and the school provided it, short of a reason mentioned in the registration guide, no schedule change will be allowed.
But like I said, so far we're doing pretty good!
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About the site, on the navigation bar to your left will be the major catagories which I think will be helpful to students and parents trying to find their way through post-high school planning. I'll be adding as we go along, so please bear with me.
So here it is! Hope you find it helpful!
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