How long does it take to transfer to a different high school?

Answer 1

If all the paperwork is in order, it should be about a week. You can attend school without all the records and paperwork transferred from the previous school to the present school. It all depends on hoe diligent the registrar personnel are at doing their job.

Answer 2

You have to go to your district office, for ex. Mine is CCISD. So you have to go to the building ask for a transfer. Fill out papers, Then you'll have to wait until they accept it. Then you go to your school, fill out forms turn in your library books. Check out and then go to your new school and fill more paperwork out and check in. Someone will be there to show you around to all your classes!

Answer 3

Schools, that is to say mainstream educational establishments of all types, are usually run by large organizations such as governments or churches. This means any change will always be slow to take place.

Change can be effected, in schools as in other organizations, in ways other than going through official channels. Many of the greatest changes in society have come about by one individual, later followed by other individuals, quietly and almost unnoticeably doing things their own way. Provided the new way works and is good - or at least does no harm - it can become accepted practise without anyone realizing it's happened.

It's interesting to observe that if people do things a certain way for long enough, everyone accepts this is how it's always been. This is really true. It's very rare for anyone, after a process has been in place for a reasonable length of time, to recall it wasn't always done this way and that nobody officially gave permission for it to be done this way.

But the quiet, gradual method depends on its causing things to work more efficiently, more effectively, and without noticeable disruption to the system. You can't simply decide on a radical change in the way something is done and implement that change: your way mightn't work, and you'll certainly draw attention to yourself.

The alternative is to go through the appropriate channels.

The most difficult part of the entire process of change within any organization, commercial or otherwise, is getting someone in authority interested right at the start. Many of the very best ideas don't reach that stage, sometimes because they are just too good. Human nature being as it is, any new idea - change - can be quickly perceived as a threat. It might be seen as threatening someone's status, their security, their very job, or be regarded with suspicion because of the simple fact that it's new and different. Any of these factors, or others, might see the potential change get no further than the first person in authority who is approached. It's a brave person indeed who takes their proposal above the head of their superior, because if they fail they'll be in trouble, and if they succeed, they'll still be in trouble.

So, change in schools - as in any other organization - will, if it happens at all, usually take a very long time indeed.

First, someone has to come up with the idea of a change.

Then, they must convince others within the organization there is a need for the change or that the change will be beneficial.

Next, someone within the administration of the organization must take the necessary steps towards deciding if, and if so, how and when, the change should take place, and what it will cost.

So far there will have been many meetings and memos - a great deal of talk and paperwork will have been generated.

Now, assuming the change has been approved, the how has been mapped out, and the when and the cost optimistically estimated, the proposal will be put to the governing body - usually government or a church - where someone will decide whether the plan will get past them to those who make the decision whether to pass on proposals to those who might consider them.

Then, the proposal will make its way through the governing body, generating more and more talk and paperwork as it goes, a bit like a snowball gathering size as it rolls downhill.

Eventually, the plan will either die somewhere within the governing body or will make it to the final stage of approval: senate, synod, parliament, depending on where you are and who runs your school.

Once past the final approval process, the proposal will go back to where it began, the school's direct governing body, where it will filter back down the tiers through which it rose until it finally arrives at the schools affected by the change and, eventually, turns up in the classroom, complete with instructions for the teacher in that room on how to implement the plan. By now the plan in no way resembles the original idea. Let's suppose that teacher at the end of the chain is the same teacher who, a long time in the past, came up with the idea in the first place, they'll probably say, 'Hey, this is a bit like an idea I once had, but it'll never work the way they want it done…'