Students late to class no longer need to stand in line
Posted on December 2, 2013 by Li Dulce Cruz in News
Dulce Mandujano
Chronicle Reporter
Under the school’s new tardy policy, students are able to go to class after the tardy bell. As the tardy policy has changed, assistant principal Dr. Travis Brandy stated that “that students who are late to class less than 10 minutes late should be admitted to class by their teachers should still be marked tardy, how ever they are no longer to go to room 408 to get a tardy pass.”
However, if they are more than 1ten minutes late, they must go to room 408 to get a tardy pass. Students who do not go to room 408 and their teacher mark them tardy will still get detention if they get more than three tardies.
Jorge Maldonado, math teacher, thinks is a great idea for the students and for the teachers to have this change of policy. “I like it because before you see many people have classes here in the 200 building so if they were one minute late the teacher would send them back to get a tardy pass and it takes five minutes to get there plus the line they had to wait for then they had to go back which took them another five min. By the time they get back they already miss half the lecture and now with this policy they can go straight to class within those ten mins.”
This idea of the change in the tardy policy was brought by Brandy himself thinking the same way Maldonado was thinking knowing that if doing all that trouble for the students they would have wasted some valuable time from class and not knowing what was the lesson. This benefits students who come late to school because the bus came late.
The tardy policy is very straightforward to everyone knowing the change and what the change has become to the students and teachers. Brandy has sent an email to every teacher on Oct. 9 which tells them that the effect of this policy will be on Oct. 14. This tells them what was the change and what they should do if the student has come tardy more than three times.
In the school website there shows the policy that is in the school. It is called “School-Wide Positive Behavior Support and Discipline Plan” which is being revisited. There is a committee of school based management who are working together to revise some of the policies, Brandy said. One of the big issues is use of cell phones and electronics on campus is being discussed.
With the weather turning cold, students may want to bring a hat to warm their heads. Hollywood policy states that Hollywood hats or plain caps may be worn but cannot be worn indoors or with any profanity.
It also states that any staff member who feels that a student is in violation of this dress code will refer the student to his or her counselor. It is up for the teachers whether or not they allow hats in their classroom. If the teacher does not allow hast they are to keep it and send it to the counselor. The SLC Administrator or designee will be responsible for contacting the student’s parent or guardian: this contact will include the particulars of the alleged violation and will inform the parent or guardian of their rights to appeal the matter to the Hollywood High School Base Management (SBM) Council if they desire.
