By Fernando Cuevas
Staff Writer This year, many new rules have been made: one of them is getting detention for coming in after 8:15 a.m. Regardless, many students still come in late, and it has no effect on them. Even I have come in late a few times, yet I have only served one detention. Only 5 students attended detention after school when I was there. Other students see in-school suspension as a vacation, rather than a punishment. Not only do they see it as a day off, but they also lose precious learning time. Sometimes the teachers don’t send work for the students to do. So why are so many students coming in late? Some of the students who frequently come in late are usually those who live in a different neighborhood and rely on either their parents or public transportation to get to school. Since this is a big city, there is often heavy and unpredictable traffic, especially on days when the weather is harsh. A few students also ride their bikes to school which is sometimes a slower means of transportation. I am a student who takes the the bus to school almost every morning, and it takes at least 45 minutes without traffic to get to school. There are also times when the bus is late, and it takes me even longer to reach school. Is it fair if a bus or train breaks down and detentions are given indiscriminately to students who would have otherwise been in class early? This has happened recently. Even for the students come to school on time, there is a long line to get inside. Sometimes students hold up the lines because they don't take their phones out of their pockets, or they don't take off their belts so they have to go through the metal detector multiple times. All of this takes up so much time that even if you're inside the building, waiting for these people to go through the metal detector causes some students to be late. Since the new policy requires you to swipe before 8:15, the people who were being held up by the line are late even when they made it to school on time. The fact is, there are many students who don't have control over how they get to school, either because they live too far to walk and can't rely on their parents to give them a ride to school. There has to be a better solution to curbing morning tardies than giving out detentions. Although students have to be more responsible and serving detention is a good way to help them learn that coming late has its consequences, the extent that Hubbard is punishing the students seems excessive. Maybe instead of punishing students so harshly, they should consider making it clearer to all students when they should be in the building or even bring back division or institute a study hall for 1st period.
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Amy Sanchez
11/22/2013 01:46:24 am
Not only people from different neighborhoods are late, but also people who live in this neighborhood. Why? because there little sisters or brothers start school at the same time at an elementary school.
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gerardo hernandez
11/22/2013 01:55:00 am
I think its dumb giving out detention for comming late because obviously people are not gonna go on purpose getting inschool to just relax. They should look at alternatives for this.
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