Blurb: This article talks about some of the opinions and feelings students and teachers have towards advisory, And if they believe it’s necessary or not.
”I don’t think advisory is necessary since it takes away time from our 8th period and lunch and that time is being wasted since no one goes to advisory” says Dominick Tavera
Student 2: “Advisory is both necessary and necessary because a lot of students have low scores on the Staar and that time is needed to study and get our scores up. But at the same time it isn’t necessary because students don’t care for it and are never going to attend since it’s not mandatory so why try to push it if that time is just being wasted.”says Vanessa Anaya
Teacher 1: “I feel Like advisory could’ve been more beneficial if it was done at the beginning of the year since it could have gave teachers more time to prepare and actually give proper attendance for it, Since at the moment advisory is a mess since students are not making it to advisory and often end up late to their 7th period since they leave after their 6th period and come back after advisory, And the problem isn’t just the kids who don’t show up but also the kids who do show up for advisory but just nap or stay on their phone for the 35 minutes and dont get their assigned tutoring done since the teachers can’t force them to do any of their work.” Said Mrs.Ford
As we came back from christmas break students were outraged when we heard that our lunch time was gonna get cut short and a new period was going to be added, Advisory was added since STAAR scores were low and it was going to be used as tutoring for STAAR, But overtime less and less students showed up for advisory. After 2 months of having an advisory hardly any students have been showing up causing that time they took from our lunch and other periods to be wasted. Some classes have up to 20 students but only 2 out of 20 of those students show up; this has been the case for a while now and it is not the desired outcome we wanted with advisory . When asked what some opinions or feelings students had with advisory they said,”I don’t think advisory is necessary since it takes away time from our period and lunch and that time is being wasted since no one goes to advisory” said Dominick Tavera.
“Advisory is both necessary and unnecessary because a lot of students have low scores on the Staar and that time is needed to study and get our scores up. But at the same time it isn’t necessary because students don’t care for it and are never going to attend since it’s not mandatory so why try to push it if that time is just being wasted.” said Vanessa Anaya as well.
When teachers were asked what their opinions on advisory were and whether or not they felt it was necessary they said, “I feel Like advisory could’ve been more beneficial if it was done at the beginning of the year since it could have gave teachers more time to prepare and actually give proper attendance for it, Since at the moment advisory is a mess since students are not making it to advisory and often end up late to their 7th period since they leave after their 6th period and come back after advisory, And the problem isn’t just the kids who don’t show up but also the kids who do show up for advisory but just nap or stay on their phone for the 35 minutes and dont get
their assigned tutoring done since the teachers can’t force them to do any of their work.” Said Mrs.Ford.
The teachers and students here at Carter Riverside have dreaded having advisory and hope that by the next upcoming school year our schedule will be back to normal and advisory would be either gone or have been scheduled at a better time and way.