Entry 22: Late Policy

How do you feel about the new tardy policy at school? Do you have any suggestions for how it might be better? What do you think the problem is? If you were the boss of the school, how would you deal with attendance problems?

• I believe that the new tardy policy is absolutely ridiculous. To specify what I mean, I will say that I believe this policy is ridiculous because first, it won't be that efficient, and second, it's extremely unfair. I say that it's not efficient because sometimes it's not the child's fault for being late to school; it's the problem of the environment. For example, their parents never wake up early enough, or there might be an accident during the usual traffic jam. Children may feel as if they are unjustly blamed, and may become even more rebellious. Also, it's unfair because parents did not pay such a big amount of money to have their children denied access to education. Even if they are late, I believe that the school does not have the position to just lock the children out of school. Sure, they can mark them as tardy and make them do cleaning and other community services, but the school certainly can't just LOCK them and PREVENT them from education. Has the school consider the negative effects? I believe that the previously implemented system is just fine: you come in late, your marked tardy, and you have to do cleaning in the school. Another problem with the system is that sometimes a part of the system, either the staff or the teachers, may not be doing their job correctly. For example, the teacher may close the door before thirty seconds. How are we supposed to justify that? The solution that I will propose is to implement an electronic system where the students have to swipe cards so that there are no biases, and then if they are tardy for more than a certain number of times, then they have to do services for the school or outside of the school.