Senior Seminar/Independent Research Studies
Midwood High School offers a new program to most senior students who need to fill up their schedule with 5.5 hours of class under the new department of education law that was taken into effect September 2012. During students free periods, they would be offered a multitude of special programs to do for class credit. Examples include SING, peer tutoring, monitoring for a teacher, and certain clubs that are offered in Midwood High School. You will have to fill out a time card for the number of hours that you have done in school. Students will need to get a certain number of hours to pass the class.(Counts as class credit)
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