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El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

A planner details the week's events, emphasizing the hurdles of school life at MVHS. Photo | Zaid Naqvi

New mandatory courses limit exposure and expression through electives

Required Health, Ethnic Studies and Financial Literacy courses will limit flexibility in elective enrollment while diminishing opportunity for personal interests
Zaid Naqvi
November 3, 2024
A potential eight-period schedule will not be put into effect in the 2024-25 school year.

New year, same schedule

FUHSD decides not to implement an alternative schedule in the 24-25 school year
Isabelle Kok and Stella Petzova
March 7, 2024
Contemporary Literature Featured Image

Closing chapters in senior literature

Examining how changes in student course selections impacted British Literature and Contemporary Literature
Illustration | Lillian Wang

Health and Ethnic Studies

What the Health and Ethnic Studies course requirements mean for incoming freshmen
Krish Dev and Mihir Vishwarupe
February 11, 2023
Science and Society course logo

FUHSD offers Science and Society course for the 2022-2023 school year

Looking into the new, district-wide science course
Aashi Venkat
February 9, 2022
Senior Claire Yang experiments with different types of art, from charcoal still lifes to digital drawings.

Choosing artistic and hands-on electives

Exploring the creative courses that students take at MVHS
Kalyani Puthenpurayil
January 22, 2022
Graphic depicting two students, one with 7 courses and another without 7 courses

Course selection should be more flexible

Scheduling based on seven classes bolsters elective enrollment
Devin Gupta, Managing and Web Editor
December 8, 2021
Graphic by Rachel Jiang

Plotting the Future

Examining course allocations at MVHS through the lens of declining enrollment

Part 2: The Process

Examining how MVHS makes course allocation decisions
Devin Gupta and Andie Liu
April 1, 2021

Part 3: The Solution

Investigating the different ways through which the teachers’ union could addressing course selection cuts
Rachel Jiang
April 1, 2021
Graphic by Claire Yang

Are students are avoiding classes because of teachers?

Students and teachers reflect on the idea of picking classes based off of teachers
Claire Yang
August 18, 2017
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