Tardy Sweeps?

[Socialize]

Our school has tardy sweeps after lunch to get people to go to class on time. However, last week our school announced that they were doing a tardy sweep before 1st period at 7:50 (keep in mind class starts at 7:55a.m.) sometime this week. I went to school early than i usually do to avoid that mess. Well, Friday came along and woke at at 7a.m. which I always do and walk to school which takes 20 mins. Ugh I snoozed and woke at at 7:48a.m. so i got up and ran to school and made it at 8:15a.m. I am not even exaggerating when I say our principal had a cop and her campus Squads writing up detentions for every student. The purpose of the cop was for anyone trying to walk back home or drive home to avoid the detention and she has campus supervisors in the school to make sure no one sneaks to class. So I am outside of the school 20 mins when class started in a line of 50 people. I assume over 200 students were assigned detention since that time period since 3 people were inputting id numbers on the computer. This was my first tardy and got a 1 hour detention.... so policies don't matter? When 3 tardies = 1 detention and these sweeps went from policies to what policies? Like, I understand getting people to move their ass at lunch and do a sweep, but before 1st period come on we all know the late fucks will get detention for being late all the time to school. The sad part was at 7:52 they closed the gates when my friends were walking that way and gave they a detention.

How do you feel about tardy sweeps? Should school officials assign detentions even if it overrules school policies? Like it was my 1st tardy and if i get assigned a detention for my 1st tardy, then every student that goes to school late should get a tardy as well despite the attendance policy of 3 tardies.

 

[Sam]

That is completely ridiculous. 😛

I got chocolate for being 40 minutes late (but actually showing up) once at school. I was honestly 20-30 minutes late for my first class every single day of my final year at high school. I'm simply not a morning person. I did always try and not disrupt what was going on to not affect anyone else. Some (not all) of my teachers were "concerned" by my poor attendance and assumed that I would do very poorly overall. Not the case at all. I did extremely well (a little worse for being rather sick- with doctors unable to help) I was top ~10% in the world.

I did have a principal who took a rather backseat lassiez- faire approach.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

I can never figure out why schools would want to be that nit picky on being late for class. Granted, my middle school was pretty strict, but once I hit highschool, that was never a issue here.

 

[Page]

Is it me or it's getting crazy by the day. They gotta be god damn nuts to be doing that. NUTS

 

[Deleted member 1609]

I feel that "sweeps" like this are self-defeating. They want kids to be on time to their classes so that they can learn more, yet they're having the kids call their parents and tell them they have detention, which takes a ton of time away from their learning. My high school did this, and I never understood it.

 

[Reverie]

The Tardy Sweeps are really unfortunate. It pulls kids out of important classes to sit in a room and do nothing. Eventually they have the state testing prep in that room as well - so at least they were doing something productive. But who really in the end cares? You want to learn? Make it to class within the first 5 minutes of the class starting preferably. You don't want to learn? Please hide in the bathroom or leave. 😛

 

[cynosure.x]

I've never even heard of tardy sweeps. But I graduated 5 years ago and the only thing they did if you were late is take a note and if you were late 3 times, you get detention.