#16 School tardiness policy

To me, I believe the current school tardiness policy is too extreme and counterproductive. It is true that this locking door policy when you are late for school in the morning is effective that it uses fear to force people to be on time for school. However, it sacrifices students’ chance for academic education. Although the school may argue that by locking people out for a whole day just for being late for school in the morning is super effective, it takes away school time. This kind of discipline issue should be taught to the student outside of school time. Instead of the locking door policy, I propose to have a stricter detention that should serve as an enough fear factor for people to learn to be punctual. In the past years, our detention system is never strict enough that people don’t really suffer and learn from such after school community service. However, if we impose a stricter detention system, we wouldn’t need a locking door policy. For every 3 tardiness to school in the morning, the student will have to spend a week of detention. It accumulates that way that if you have 6 tardiness, you will have 2 weeks of detention. In detention, students will be forced to clean classrooms and clean the school environment. They will need to write an essay everyday in detention for 30 min on various topic that the teacher choose to pick. The initiative of the policy is well established and reasonable. There is indeed a dilatory issue for students in our school. However, to correct student’s behavior, we shouldn’t sacrifice student’s class time and education.