Student Advisory. Wait, Spartan Time? Wait, Learning Seminar? Wait… now, let me get this straight.

One of the new features of the new school year is the Learning Advisory Time, which is here to assist students in their rights and responsibilities to the morals of the young person of today. For freshmen and new students these are the new rules of the game, while for the rest it is merely a refresher course.

“Last year some of the stuff surprised me,” confides sophomore Nick Russell. He remembers that the rules on search and seizure in particular were shocking.

Some of these rules include the search of lockers, cars, backpacks and other personal items if the school thinks there are drugs or other illegal dangerous things inside.

“I learned it the last year and the [year before] the last year,” said Jenny Strong, who has been here since freshman year. Though Strong says the videos have improved, though in past years they have been the subject of much ridicule.

The video is just another tool used to teach students about our Student Rights and Responsibilities, just like the test that follows. The test gives students questions on the martial presented by the teachers and also asks us to find the pages where these are listed in SRR booklet students receive.

“It’s the same test we took last year,” says senior Shane Chase, the test this year in in fact the same as last year from the questions to the pages. The last question on the back asking students how, in their opinion they can stop cyber bullying, is also the same.

“I thought it was redundant,” Russell says. Even though he was surprised by some of the rules, reviewing the same material every year, Russell says gets boring.

Learning Advisory Time is a morphed version of lasted year’s mandatory Spartan Time that required students to go to a specified period. Our ‘Advisory Time’, as it is called in the student planner, is exactly the same in the sense of rotating for extra class time.

“It’s all the same thing,” says Chase. Chase has seen almost all of the different versions of the Teacher Advisory Time and found no difference in any of them. The reincarnations of the test and video seem to be the only constant.

“The laugh track killed it,” says Strong.