The Bethlehem School board curriculum committee took time to at its Nov. 5 meeting to announce proposed changes in high school course offerings for the 2019-20 school year. The board is constantly adapting curriculum to meet the needs and desires of the student population, and was excited to announce that American Sign Language was so popular that they are adding American Sign Language 2 next year.

Superintendent Dr. Roy said he was surprised with the level of student interest, and that the district did a fantastic job hiring two awesome teachers for the programming.

Other proposed changes include offering Physical Education as an online course, a drastic step away from the PE of the past, geared toward a generation that relies heavily on technology.

Sophomore seminar classes will also be offered online to remedy a potential scheduling conflict experienced by some students.

And the final change was to the social studies programming; next year students will be able to take Law, Human Rights, and Social Change: this course is the third installment along the Law Pathway offered at BASD.

The course is designed to not only understand the law and legal system, but also how culture and social change can affect the law, and vice versa. The Law Pathway will then be completed in the 2020-21 school year with a capstone course in Community Activism.