Milton High School will be doing an open campus schedule for final exams of the 2024-2025 school year.
The administration has been talking about having an open campus; the school used to do it “back in the day,” Mr. Bergey said. This year is a test run for the idea and does not indicate the future for this situation, he added.
Some problems have come to light with the schedule that do not support doing open campus again next year, he said. There are worries that students won’t be responsible enough to come in for their scheduled final will just stay home, he added.
“We are currently looking at May 28 and 30, and June 2 when we will run a true open campus schedule,” Mr. Bergey said. Students will only come in when they have a final exam scheduled. This will require students to be responsible, he added.
Students that cannot get their own transportation to and from the school will stay all day and study. Areas like the auditorium, lit cafe and the cafeteria will be open for students, he said.
Lunches and breakfast will be served, but lunch will not be scheduled. Students can come and go to lunch whenever they can, Mr. Bergey said. Even students that don’t have to come in during the day are still welcome to pick up a lunch, he added.
Students in Keystone tested subjects will not be taking final exams in those courses; there will still be a final grade, but it will not be a stand-alone exam, he said.
History Teacher Mr. Ronald Schultz said that Mr. Bergey had approached him and Science Teacher Mr. Lee Yohey to put together a schedule. Mr. Schultz added that they had done open campus when he first started teaching at Milton, which was about 13 years ago.
“We noticed that with midterms there were issues where a student would have as many as four midterms a day,” Mr. Bergey said. They wanted to create a schedule where students didn’t have more than two or three exams a day, he added. The last couple days of school are a lot of wasted time, so the thought process was that the time would be beneficial for both students and teachers.
