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PM School enrollment grows
By Stephanie Lugo
 

    The amount of students enrolled in The High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology (HSTAT) PM school classes has increased during this October 2009 term.
     PM school is a series of courses given after school to junior and senior students at HSTAT that allows them to make up credits that they have failed to earn during daily classes. These classes are based on the appropriate subject matter and some are computer-based.
          “PM school is a time-efficient way to recover a credit a student does not have” said Ms Rhoades, senior Grade Advisor and English teacher.
      According to the Assistant Principal of guidance Ms Monahan, there are about 80 students taking advantage in PM school classes during the October 2009 session.
      “We can only accommodate about 34 students in each subject area and we have never turned away an upper class person, and yes, we have reached full capacity this year,” said Monahan
      Because the classes should have a limit to 34 students, the PM school history class had to be divided into two different classes. The class was “too big” said Rhoades.
       “Well, when I first started PM school for history there was about 52 students but now they split the classes so its like 22 students,” said Abraham Zumba, a current PM school student.
       Rhoades believes that PM school is over-packed more this year than others because it has become more attractive to students, especially seniors.