Tardy Party

     Click! The locked door stops the entrance to the building as students fights to get in, but it’s too late – they’re tardy.

     Tardy sweeps are now happening on campus. If a student is outside of the building when the bell rings they will be locked out of the building and have to go to the cafeteria to have their tardy written down and to get a pass to class.

     For students unlucky enough to be tardy frequently, the tardies will start adding up and they will be punished accordingly. Most students, even those not tardy, don’t like the new tardy sweeps.

     “I think the new tardy is [absurd]. It isn’t fair for the students that have to get from across this huge campus in five minutes,” Max Tesalona, freshman, said.

     Some teachers also think that the new tardy sweeps hinder the students from learning.

     “I think that having to be shuffled to the cafeteria and then sent out back to class takes too much time. And what happens if they don’t go back to class? How is that helping because if they didn’t come to class before they were absent now, they could not come to class and just be counted tardy,” Gurkan Bekar, World Studies I teacher, said.

     Though many people on campus don’t like the new tardy sweeps, many others do think that this is not only helping the tardy students, but also the teachers and students getting to class on time.

     “This is helping more students get to class. This gives them more time to learn and give them and education that hopefully thy will use later in life,” William Sturgis, ETA Director, said.

     This policy is making students who are tardy often responsible for their actions. Many administrators say that this is helping them to learn very useful life lessons.

     “They need to be on time in life, so why should we take it easy on them now when this is the time to make them learn that they need to be on time? When they get a job if they are late all the time, like they are now, then they will be fired. They need to grow up and learn some responsibility,” Shane Land, Assistant Principal, said.