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TOOELE — School officials are making plans in Tooele County to go to what's known as a 5-by-5 schedule next year in its high schools.
Currently, high schools in the Tooele School District are on a 4-by-4 schedule, meaning four core classes a day. If that switches to 5-by-5, some parents are concerned it will mean more work for students, less time in classes, and maybe an increase in class size.
"I don't think it will. But it kind of depends on the school," said Maresa Manzione, Tooele County School Board president. "We did take a vote as a school board and we recommended to move to the 5-by-5 schedule."
Manzione said the school board had to do something because high school test scores were below the state average.
"I would like to have more information before I give a super strong opinion one way or the other," said Jeff Pashley, who has a daughter who goes to school in Tooele. "I think it's really important to have administrators, students, teachers and parents get involved in this discussion prior to this implementation."
If anything, administrators said the increase in the number of classes would allow students to take additional courses they may be interested in and if a student is falling behind in a particular subject, they could get extra help through that additional class. If something isn't working, administrators said they can always fix it.
The extra class each day will make classes shorter than they are now.
