Advisory was first introduced to Mt. Abe high-school students at the beginning of the school year in 2007. It was initially met with mass disapproval by the student body, and while things have calmed down a bit, it still remains a topic of heated discussion among students and teachers alike. It is the continual bickering about advisory heard in the hallways that inspired me to get the general consensus. I presented a set of questions to 100 students to find out how they feel about advisory.
When asked if they enjoy advisory, 80% answered no. Somehow, this did not come as a surprise. 32% of students said that they feel like they do fun activities at least sometimes in advisory, while 68% do not. 64% of students interviewed said that they have skipped advisory at least once, and 42% said that they go to other advisories often because they are not content with their own. 71% of students said that they do not even get along with their advisors, and 51% of kids said that they feel as though their advisor doesn’t even enjoy the time spent in advisory. Of course that isn’t an accurate representation of how many teachers do or do not enjoy advisory, but is merely the way the student body perceives the attitude of their advisors during advisory. When asked if they would prefer not to have advisory, 85% answered yes.
The dislike for advisory appears to remain as strong as it did when it all began. That leaves me with one question; why do we continue to use a system that clearly is not working?
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Would it make sense to ask somebody in charge of the advisory program why we still have it?
ReplyDeleteDefinately ask! Why have an advisory program that no one wants? Why was the advisory program started in the first place and does it even do what it was supposed to?
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