A new intervention policy was implemented at the start of the new semester. Intervention is a thirty minute period between third block and lunch.

The old intervention policy required that students without a stamp from each class in their planners were required to stay in their third block for intervention, However this semester the policy changed. Students now are only required to go to intervention if they get a specific stamp from a teacher or if they choose to.

The old policy required all four stamps from their teachers to have an extended lunch, but now stamps are almost non-existent.  Stamps are no longer necessary because third block teachers will no longer be checking planners. Students will only be held in if a teacher has requested their presence or students sign up to get help.  In order for a student to go to intervention they must sign up with that teacher on a specific day.

Ms. Whitney Lum supported the new intervention policy.

“The biggest issue with intervention was we were holding kids that were failing, but not in the class that they needed help in,” Lum said.

Many students such as Alexandra Rappleye were irritated with the old intervention policies.

“No, [Intervention] just kept me from having lunch earlier. I prefer the change because it’s allowed me to have more time to eat and relax in the middle of the day, which is necessary since I have some stressful classes,” Rappleye said.

Other students believed the old intervention policy was more beneficial.

“Intervention helped me get most of my work done,” Ilona Chernitskaya said.

Chernitskaya supports either policy, however she prefers the current policy more.

“I prefer the one now because if I don’t need to catch up on anything I have free time to do what I want,” Chernitskaya said.

The new intervention policy has affected students in a variety of ways good and bad.

by LINDA MOODI