The new schedule omits Mods 3 and 18, introduces a double mod 9/10 class and allows for longer department meetings. The first 9/10, known as “x,” is a 35 minute lunch break for students who have english, math, visual or performing arts, Health Education, Driver Education, College and Career, special education and Cooperative Vocational Education. The second 9/10, known as “y,” is an equal lunch break for science, social studies, physical education and world language.

The Scheduling Committee created the schedule to “provide an equal amount of time to each long B/C class,” principal Andy Ishibashi said. The committee consists of teachers, according to social studies teacher Alex Schwarz.

Students who normally have long classes during these mods now have shorter classes. “All my classes are long, so with the new schedule, I enjoy my short classes and my longer lunch breaks,” junior Jenny Vuong said.

Junior James Tse is also pleased with the schedule. “It gives students who have full schedules a lunch,” Tse said.

However, some students oppose the new schedule. “I do not have many swing mods off to begin with,” senior Adam Berke said. “I do not like how the schedule takes them away completely.”

The Scheduling Committee considered numerous schedules and finally agreed on the double 9/10 schedule because it “met all the requirements, and had the least negatives,” Schwarz said. “The decision came down to giving students and department members the same lunches to meet.”

Although Schwarz is “glad the schedule meets the requirements,” he said he believes that “it turned out to be more complicated than initially thought.”

Another new schedule — one that divides the daily schedule in two — will affect campus on Oct. 24 and 25. Students will attend mods 1 through 10 on the first day and 11 through 20 on the second day. Since school ends early on both days, there are fewer special schedule days this year, according to Schwarz. The special schedules are available on the Lowell Web site (http://www.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch697).