The final switch paired up journalism teacher Brian Higgins and AP World History teacher Kevin Finn. Higgins sat in on Finn’s class during a test day, and took the assessment with no preparation.
“I didn’t feel as clueless as I thought I was going to feel as I read through the exam questions,” Higgins said. “By no means did I know everything, but I was pleasantly surprised by the things I did know.”
Students on campus regularly talk about the challenging nature of Finn’s class, but Higgins feels as if the rigor might be over-exaggerated.
“Students aren’t going to like this, but I think that’s one of the classes if you pay attention in class and do the work, the test shouldn’t be ridiculously hard,” Higgins said. “From what I know about Mr. Finn and his teaching style, most students should have all the tools to do well in the class. It’s just whether or not they utilize those to the best of their ability.”
With no group retake and a couple questions dropped, Higgins scored a 50 on the test.
On the other side of the final switch, Kevin Finn was asked to write a news article for The Red Ledger over the hiring process at school.
“I actually have a background in a bit of journalism. I was a copy editor on the Texas Tech newspaper while I was in college, so I wasn’t a reporter, but I did edit stories,” Finn said.
“The article was not hard to write because I went through the hiring process myself. I needed to find resources that would help me clarify some things, and explain why the process happened,” Finn said. “I don’t know whether I filled out the story well enough, but I’m sure the editors will let me know.”
“It [the teacher switch] allowed me to constantly, whenever I was sitting in a student-type situation, assess what’s happening, how I can improve, and things I like and things I don’t like,” AP Sculpture teacher Jeff Seidel said.
