Academic Programs
In 2005, the school began offering Latin language classes, and out of 445 students in the eighth grade, 104 elected to take the course. Latin is still offered at the school.
At Crews, "Connections" classes (sometimes called specials in other schools) are extra classes which still make up part of a student's academic grade. Three Connections classes are electives, and they are all musical connections which are Band, Orchestra, and Chorus. As of the 2009-10 school year, the students have some say in their connections classes.
"Probe" classes are advanced courses in certain subjects: English, math, social studies, and science.
In "inclusion classes," for one period a day, a special education teacher and the regular education teacher "team teach" the same class, in order for special education students (as well as the regular students) to get more attention. Inclusion classes are taught in social studies, math, language arts, and mainly science (since special education teachers, who can teach the other three primary subjects on their own, cannot teach science in each grade level). There are no inclusion connections classes.
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