Trenton students head back to school confused, angry

Hundreds of students showed up for the first day of school at Trenton Central High School Thursday and found they didn?t have class schedules. Parents and students were confused and angry when they showed

News 12 Staff

Sep 6, 2007, 10:56 PM

Updated 6,459 days ago

Share:

Hundreds of students showed up for the first day of school at Trenton Central High School Thursday and found they didn?t have class schedules.
Parents and students were confused and angry when they showed up for the first day of classes. Most parents said they just wanted to make sure their children were in the right classes so they could graduate. However, with no class schedules, they had no way of knowing that information.
Trenton School Superintendent Rodney Lofton was at the school to explain the situation. According to Lofton, a glitch with new software left more than 40 percent of schedules incomplete. Guidance counselors scrambled around to help complete the schedules by hand.
Students met in small groups for activities and lectures while they waited for their schedules. The school will be let out early Friday. Lofton said he hopes to have a schedule for every student by Monday.
The computer glitch also affected a large part of the high school?s west campus. It did not affect the middle or elementary schools.