Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257939-20140830064928/@comment-4010415-20140904200524

The scheduling could be a mix of college and high school (or, at least, my high school. No idea how many other high schools operated like mine).

In high school, you're required to choose a full schedule. When I went to high school, there were 8 classes, but we had an A-Day B-Day schedule, where we had 4 classes a day, and we switched which 4 classes we went to each weekday.

When you make your schedule, you choose which subjects you want to take this year. You need a math, a science, a language arts, and a social studies, and the other four can be any of the elective classes, though there are certain other classes and class types that you're required to take before you graduate, but you can take them any year you want. For my school, it was one year of Speech (Bleh!!!), two years of a foreign language, one year of any type of art class, one year of a technology class, I think 1.5 years of PE, and a semester of Health.

So, for all we know, at Beacon, they could have to choose a full schedule of classes for the purpose of keeping teams unified, and you choose which classes you want to take this year, with some subjects requiring less than four credits.