With the most recent changes to minyan, clubs and lunch, it seems that the search for a permanent schedule is never-ending.

Freshly altered, CESJDS’s hour-long club schedule was modified yet again to better fit the needs of students and staff.

Earlier in the year, the schedule consisted of middle school lunch and high school clubs for the first half of lunch, and vice versa for the second half.

The schedule, however, did not work as well as planned.  According to Dean of Students Roslyn Landy, too many students attempted to get lunch at the same time, and there was a lot of confusion about staff duties and club responsibilities.

“Teachers had to be in two places at the same time and needed to get substitutes,” Landy said. “Lunch overlapped with clubs for everybody and it did not work.”

Under the new schedule, middle school lunch follows the third period of the day. After lunch, they have their fourth period class and then proceed to their clubs. For high schoolers, clubs and lunch have been switched, with lunch now coming before clubs.

Junior Harris Block believes that clubs allow for opportunities to socialize, and does not feel as if the new schedule has affected this opportunity in any way.

“I didn’t notice [the change],” Block said. “It had the same feel as it did before.”

However, this observation could be a result of  the lack of exposure that high school students had to the effects of the original schedule, as opposed to the middle schoolers’ experience with it.

“Before, a lot of the high schoolers came into our lunch and then I got lunch really late and I had five minutes to eat,” seventh-grader Sabrina Bramson said. “One time, my friend did not even get to eat. [Now], I have more time to eat. I am glad that they changed it.”

However, Bramson does not find every aspect of the new club lunch effective.

“I don’t like how the actual class periods are split up, but I feel like that is the only way they can make this [adjustment] work out,” Bramson said.

Bramson is not the only one who has found success with the new schedule. History teacher Michael Connell leads the high school JSA club, and has also found more flexibility due to the change.

“The way [club lunch] is now, it is more flexible,” Connell said. “Students can get their lunch, come in and have the meeting. We will get started early and they have more time to debate.”

In only a few short weeks, the new club schedule has stirred conversation in JDS, but only time will tell if the schedule will fit the needs and goals of the school.

“Everything is a work in progress,” Landy said.