Revere High School (RHS) is adding several new classes available to students in each grade next school year to help meet student demand.
Three new scheduling options and one retitled course will be available to RHS students next year. The district is removing Digital Marketing and Consumer Math, while adding in Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Probability & Statistics, and a senior option study hall.
Jeff Dallas, who is currently teaching several other business courses, will be the instructor for Sports and Entertainment Marketing. Dallas said the course will cover how sports and various entertainment mediums are marketed to the public. The course is being offered because of the rapid growth of the job field.
“That field is growing which is why we decided to offer the class. . . . From minor league baseball to the professional level, everything is being marketed more to get people to go to games, especially post-covid,” Dallas said.
The class will be open to all grades. However, upper-classmen may find more success if they have taken a previous business class.
Dallas said the course looks to be an introductory class for people who want to go into the marketing field.
Another class being offered next year is Probability and Statistics. The current class under the same name is renamed Compositional Probability and Statistics. Elizabeth Long, a school counselor at RHS said the new course will be mainly targeted toward seniors and is a college-prep math class that includes more real-life applications than its counterpart.
“The concepts that people are learning in this class are things that can be used in real-life applications as well,” Long said.
Despite the addition of the course, the original one-semester course will still be offered.
“The difference between the two is that you’re going to see that the pacing of that one-semester course is going to be a lot faster,” Long said.
The third new scheduling option is a study hall alternative for seniors. RHS principal Dr. Andy Peltz said it will allow seniors to come to school later or leave early.
“It will be for seniors who have a study hall, and if it is first or seventh period that will allow them to come in second period or leave after sixth period,” Peltz said.
Seniors will not have the choice of which they receive. Rather, they will simply ask for their study hall to fall on either the first or seventh period.
The last change to the course catalog is Anatomy becoming an honors class. Peltz said the honors title is more fitting for the class content.
“It is now honors, so we just recognized that that course is very rigorous,” Peltz said.
No material has been changed in the course, it is simply being reclassified as honors.
Students will be able to take this course, along with the others mentioned starting in the 2024-2025 school year.
