Are we really late, or does school start a bit too early? (Editorial)

Being late is a common unintentional habit from students at CHS.  Most of the students appearing in the ISS (in school suspension) room are innocent teenagers getting up a minute or too late.

According to the student handbook, it takes four unexcused tardies to get one detention or ISS.

A solution to this problem is to make school start later so that we aren’t dealing with so many students being late to school.  Different high schools, like Shape America High School in Belgium, start at 9:00 a.m.  They work sports around their schedule just fine without starting at 7:45 a.m.

Students that are assigned to OSS (out of school suspension) for being late to school already miss enough of class. Why would you make it harder for them to know what’s going on in class?   It’s uncountable of how many people do cyber school instead of public school lately, because of getting so many punishments, just for being late to school.

Whenever students come into school, they need to check in with the office to let them know they’re there.  When a student is on the verge of getting a punishment they don’t prefer, they come in with a forged note.  It’s not fair to them for the school to put so much pressure on a student, threatening them with a detention or a suspension.  This brings more and more forged notes to the office, which becomes a bad habit.

I do realize that one day in our lives we are going to have to work every day, and going to work late isn’t necessarily going to keep you working there for long.  We have to work for at least 70 years of our lives, so why can’t the school start later and give us, students, a break in the beginning so we can come learn and not be worried about the detention after school?

A great amount of students take a bus to school because their parents go to work in the morning, or maybe they worked a night shift and can’t take them to school because they’re too tired.  Either way, no matter what the reason is, it’s a good one.

Students who take a bus to school have to reach it at a certain time or else they’ll miss it.  Once you miss the bus, you have to wait until your guardians decide to take you or you have to miss the whole school day.  That’s a major problem with students, until they get their license of course.

Punishment on CHS students shouldn’t be so unreasonable, because once the principal writes another detention down; they should realize it’s not what the student wants.  They just aren’t early morning people.  We’re forced to come to school; it’s the law.  The school should appreciate our time and effort into school, instead of worrying about how many times a student’s been late to school and wasting paper on those detention slips.

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Tell us what you think in the comments: Should students be penalized for missing that morning bell?