Schofield - in a Thanksgiving message to teachers and others this week - said that after meeting with all high school teacher leadership teams the advantages of the seven-period plan, including monetary , appear to outweigh the benefits of the block schedule which is now in place.
"Keep in mind that our current local budget this year contains nearly $10 million of federal stimulus support which ends in 2010," he wrote. "We will continue to do all that is within our control to prepare for the worst while hoping for improvement."
Schofield said he would be "less than genuine" if he did not say " that I believe we will be recommending moving towards a seven-period hybrid schedule at the high school level next school year. The monetary advantages combined with programming opportunities appear to outweigh the current benefits of our block schedule."
Many teachers and others - including some students - are opposed to the change and some addressed the matter at a school board meeting earlier this month.
Hall County Educators Association president Steven Wang said changing to a hybrid schedule with seven periods a day would be long term solution to what he hopes is a short term economic crisis.
"We're now hearing that what we're doing is too costly,â
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