<p>Im surprised this didn't turn up in my search results for high school..</p>
<p>Do counselors ask you why you want to switch classes? For example theres a really horrible Spanish teacher and unfortunately I received her during orientation. If you go to the counseling office and say you wish to have Mr. Joe instead of Mrs. Joe, what would be your excuse? You heard good things about the better teacher? I'm afraid I'll get a bad schedule and the counselors would be too lazy to rearrange it.</p>
<p>For us, it was a straightforward matter of ensuring that the class we wanted to switch into didn’t interfere with our schedules and then getting the approval of the Dean of Students, our GC, and the principal. Then we went back to the Dean of Students’s office where the schedule would be updated. This all had to be done a week before classes started, though.</p>
<p>You might want to ask how they do it in your school first.</p>
<p>My school had a rule against switching just to get a different teacher. You’ll probably want to have another justification handy, and you might not want to mention any hopes to avoid that particular teacher.</p>
<p>That’s brutal. I can change my schedule at will, and my counselor (great guy) probably doesn’t have a student who changes things (plans, goals, classes, educational paths) more than me. But he knows me very well because of it, so I count it as a win.</p>
<p>At my school, you’re pretty much screwed if you want a different teacher… but the same course. We’re so tiny that one teacher teaches every class. I mean… we have two history teachers and two English teachers… so in those departments, you don’t have a choice. [Even in AP US History this year… the same teacher also taught Honors US History… and with it being a required course, I had absolutely no option.]</p>
<p>However… at my school if you want to change courses, it is really, really, really easy. You just go see the guidance counselor and she changes your schedule. Like, this year, I decided to drop out of AP Chemistry, but I didn’t want to take a study hall. So, instead of going to AP Chem that day, I went and saw the guidance counselor and told her that I didn’t want to just take a study hall, but I wanted to drop AP Chem. I asked her what class she recommended that I take without having to change my class, and she’s like “Well the only one that might interest you is Philosophy. Go try it out for a day and see if you like it and make sure to tell your chem teacher that you dropped his class.” So I said okay, dropped by my AP Chem class and said I dropped it and then walked into Philosophy… I stayed in that class for the rest of the year and it was a GPA boost for me.</p>
<p>If I were in my local public school… that would have been impossible. They don’t allow course changes unless absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>As AUGirl said it’s all about what school you’re in and the reason for your excuse. If you can show proof of bias or something then that should do it.</p>
<p>It would be difficult to switch because of teacher preference, but if you honestly don’t want/need to take a class it’s pretty simple. Although, at my school, if they’re particularly inundated with requests to switch they’ll stop giving out the forms and you’ll have to get the teachers to personally contact them.</p>
<p>At my school we’re not supposed to switch for teacher preference if we haven’t actually had the teacher, but occasionally switches can happen at semester. But it usually requires bribes, tears, and anything else that will convince the counselor to go behind the hardass dean’s back</p>