Registration is here and Lewis-Palmer High School students are preparing to choose their classes for the next year. Preparing students for the next year’s choices, papers and packets are being handed out along with videos showing the decision process of selecting classes.

“The handouts are helpful, it gives us all the information to pick the classes we will choose and enjoy. It gives us the opportunity to take the classes we want to learn, along with the required courses,” Jordyn Johnson, 10,said.

Registering for classes is something colleges will see when you apply for their school, it can also help getting into a college and determining your career later in life. Students get the chance to be more responsible with being accountable for their future choices now that they are getting closer to college and the real world.

“I have to think about the classes I have to take. I’m not ready to make the class choices until I get all the information,” Konnor Kingsmore, 9, said. “We have to learn to be responsible sometime or another. It lets us get the choice of the classes we want to take to go to a good college and have a career.”

Students at Lewis-Palmer High School are asked if they have any informational questions to go see a counselor to get help and advice. Some students go into the counselor’s office and ask for advice on a course or help with choosing a class they are interested in. While others may not take advantage of this resource.  

“I would ask a counselor. I would not want to be taking a class all semester that I have no interest in and that I don’t like,” Kingsmore said.

Lewis-Palmer Rangers fill out certain sheets for their specific grade with lists of classes that you can choose to take. Then they have to get all of the teachers signatures to take the classes they desire, along with the counselor’s signature. Students are also given a handbook with descriptions of the classes.

“It’s students’ choice or not if they want to read through the descriptions, but it’s still just a good option for people to have. But some people don’t read the packet because they don’t care what classes they take, they just want to graduate. It’s your decision whether you want to look through the handbook to choose which classes you want to take and understand the classes you’re choosing,” Johnson said.

As students start to plan for college and their futures class selection becomes very important. Students at Lewis-Palmer are quickly picking classes before the deadline.