tjsmith
mhl editor
If you’re taking College Algebra this year then you most likely got a letter in the mail discussing a zero hour. What exactly does zero hour mean?

“It [zero hour] is a regular class that is offered before school with the class time as the other classes during the day.  We had such a big enrollment this year that we just didn’t have anywhere to put it other than before first hour,” McPherson High School’s new counselor Emilea Harlin said.

The length of the class will vary throughout the week. It will be 53 minutes three days of the week and only 47 minutes for the other two days.

“I think the idea of having a zero hour is great for students who don’t have anything in the morning, but some people have meetings in the morning or the 1st hour S.P.S class which would conflict with the class,” McPherson High School senior Chris Rakowski said

McPherson isn’t the only school that has zero hour in the mornings. Other schools in our area have had zero hour for years.

“I’ve had zero hour all three years of high school so far. It’s really not that bad to have. After a while you get used to the hours and it doesn’t feel like you’re waking up early at all,“ Marion High School senior Andrew Kjellin said.

Many McPherson High School students think that zero hour has a few advantages over taking the class at a conventional time.

“You take the class before school so you actually have a free hour during the day,” Harlin said.