If you live in California, you have probably heard of the budget cuts. Well, my school was severally sufering from the loss in money. Teachers were giving out extra credit for bringing in packs of copy paper! How crazy!!!!!

This year, they made our school day 45 minutes shorter!!!!! Our school is getting out at 2:40 insted of 3:15.  That is kind of good, because it means less school, but it sucks because now we don’t have an early day on Wednesday! 

 Not only do we have a schedule change, but an elective change. Sixth graders don’t even get an elective! They get

• One Reading Period
• One Language Arts Period
• One Social Studies Period
• One Science Period
• One Lunch Perod
• TWO MATH PERIODS!

I think that’s crazy! Having 2 periods of the same class sucks! in seventh and eigth grade, you get all the same classes, but if you scored accelerated on the tests, you get only one period of math and an elective!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunatly, the elective choices are sucky.

There used to be

• Choir
• Band
• Spanish
• Yearbook
• Life Skills
• Art
• Photography
• Teacher’s Assistant
• Pre College
• Cooking

Now, we only have three choices:

• Band
• Art
• Piano

I chose piano. The budget cuts suck for giving us a   bad choice of electives! :( :( :(