TABLE OF CONTENTS - Pascack Valley Regional School District

c. Course addition(s) that do not require course drops and/or multiple coursechanges;d. Previous failure with the assigned teacher;e. Level changes initiated by the Supervisor of Instruction.Only requests that reflect these circumstances will be processed during the firstfive days of the new semester.2. After the first five days of the new semester and through the end of thesecond week of the new semester, the Guidance Department will meet withstudents to consider additional kinds of scheduled change requests. In petitioningfor a change, students should be prepared to discuss why the results of theplanning process are no longer appropriate. Students are advised that personalconvenience and/or preference do not per se justify a change. Changes thatwould not be considered:• Teacher preference;• Lunch considerations;• A desire to leave school before 8th period;• An interest in joining friends in a particular class;• Or any combination of the above.3. Unless there are unusual or exceptional circumstances, or unless it is deemed inthe student’s best interest, no student-initiated schedule changes (with theexception of course withdrawals as discussed below) will be processed after thesecond week of the semester.4. Any change in a student’s program must have parent’s written permission if thestudent is under 18 years of age.5. If a student wishes to withdraw from a course, he/she has until the last day of thefirst marking period for a full year course, and until the teacher deadline for thefirst progress report for a semester course. If these deadlines are met, no mentionof the withdrawal will appear on student’s permanent report card or high schooltranscript. Any student withdrawing from a course at the end of the first markingperiod will not be considered for Honor Roll status for that marking period oryear-end certificate.6. Any and all level changes require the approval of the department supervisor. Nolevel changes will be made after the last day of the first marking period.Extraordinary circumstances will be reviewed by the department supervisor andthe principal on a case-by-case basis.7. If a student withdraws from a course after the first marking period he/she willreceive a W/P or W/F. The W/P or W/F is automatically maintained on thereport card until the end of the school year. At this time it will be entered on thepermanent report card and high school transcript as a W/P or W/F with no creditindicated.8. Once second marking period grades are made accessible, students have until theend of the third working day after those grades are available to process awithdrawal from any course. After that date, no course withdrawals for anyreason will be allowed. (For semester courses, students have the equivalentamount of time after the first marking period of the course to make their decisionon whether or not to withdraw.)When a student changes from one course into another, he/she will be given a fullyear’s credit for the new course upon satisfactory completion of course requirements.At the discretion of the teacher, grades for the previous course may be taken intoaccount for the final grade. If a teacher is unable to arrive at a final grade, theadministration will so determine it.Summer SchoolMost students complete their high school graduation requirements within fouryears. However, that time frame becomes seriously jeopardized if students failrequired courses, which are usually also sequential in nature. Therefore, studentswho fail a required course must make up the course in summer schoolimmediately, if they intend to graduate on time.28