By Madelyn Mistark, Staff Writer

Conant High School has several new changes this 2018-2019 school year and students and teachers have mixed feelings about how it’s affecting their school environment.

Zenia Prathers, the new Technology teacher at Conant, previously taught in Cherokee, Alabama and says she likes the students at Conant, although the atmosphere is much different than the south.

“Everybody is more go-go-go and it’s so rushed, it is much more laid back in the south,”

said Prathers.

Seth Farmer, a history teacher at Conant for the past 17 years, says he loves the new administrators and thinks they are doing a “amazing” job, but understands where the students are coming from.

“I think it’s human nature to resist change because people are afraid of uncertainty, and over the past couple of years no one has known what to expect. Not students, not teachers, I would say not even administrators.”

Madisyn Chamberlain, junior at Conant High School, wishes all her teachers would communicate better on assignments and their importance.

Chamberlain says, “It’s like a whole different environment, where a lot of work is piled on us and we are expected to finished so soon, so I end up turning in more late work then I’d like.”  

Alexis Gallagher, a junior at Conant High School, has said she’s frustrated with the different teaching styles she’s expected to abruptly adjust to.

“Having multiple new teachers all at once is a weird transition. They aren’t bad people, but they give more work that’s much harder,” said Gallagher.

Gallagher and Chamberlain both agreed that the addition of new teachers were needed because previously employed teachers did not support Conant’s upcoming changes.

“Teachers who have been here forever didn’t like the new changes thrown on them,” said Chamberlain. “It can’t be a coincidence that so many of my teachers left as the school was undergoing big changes,” added Gallagher.