EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Students at Excelsior Springs High will have some new course choices when the next school year begins. On Jan. 11, the Board of Education approved the 2021-2022 High School Career and Educational Planning Guide submitted by Principal Christen Everett. Eight classes have been added, two have been dropped and a foreign language course has been rebranded. “My goal has just been trying to clean up the course guide – kind of on both ends – giving some more advanced options for our upper-level kids,” Everett said during the board’s Zoom meeting. “I feel like, when I started this, we didn’t have a ton of options for those upperlevel kids.” Additions for upper-level students include Oral Communication 104 and ALH 106 Medical Terminology, dualcredit courses offered through Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph. Having Oral Communication 104 pleased Superintendent Dan Hoehn. Students should know how to spea...