By Jinghan Li
Staff Writer
CTE Classes & Registration
Students received an email with a link to a survey to gauge interest in Career and Technical Education courses. Depending on the results, nursing, game design and film production may open for fall semester 2026.
Current CTE classes include sports medicine, woodworking and business. Students who take two years of the same subject are considered to complete the CTE pathway. Beyond instruction, some advanced CTE courses allow students to showcase their professional skills. For instance, third-year sports medicine students assist during games and the third and fourth-year woodworking classes support the building of sets for the musicals.
“We try to use students’ abilities and bolster them so everyone can see them as much as possible,” Assistant Principal Scott Sherman said. “I would say more and more students are taking CTE classes; part of that is because they are attractive offerings. It allows you to start thinking about future careers and get skills that you want to pursue.”
Registration for 2026-2027 begins in February. Students first select classes in Aeries before Feb. 10. English teachers then bring their class to the media center for a counseling conference from Feb. 10 to Feb. 20.
The second stage of registration in May provides a chance to request potential changes. Lastly, at the beginning of the new school year in August, some students could potentially alter their schedule.
“We make the window viewable in May because some students have second thoughts,” Sherman said. “We appreciate fewer changes. It does delay the formation of the master schedule, which then compounds if come August, students are trying to make changes again. The problem is, the number of seats in different courses is based on the course request from the spring.”
Theft on campus
The homeroom lesson on Jan. 5 addressed theft problems on campus in response to a spike in missing object reports in fall 2025. In the last week of January, admin received reports of a stolen phone in the locker room and observed unlocked bikes on campus.
“Although we do surveys and have surveillance across campus, there are certain parts of the campus where we can’t have cameras,” Sherman said. “So we wanted to make the school more aware because it kept escalating.”
Aware of these problems, TC incorporated lectures that raised students’ awareness about securing their belongings into Homeroom and hired a substitute teacher to further supervise the boys’ locker room, where students tended to lose their belongings.
To secure their possessions, students should lock their bikes, skateboards and personal objects in the locker room. They should also keep their belongings in sight or under supervision of another during break and lunch. If students lose their personal items, they could check the lost and found in room 311 or tell a staff member to start an investigation.
“TC is a great community,” Sherman said. “We are very trusting of each other, and that’s wonderful, but we still have to be protective of our own belongings.”