This recent tardy rule is unfair to many students.
This rule is that if they are tardy or unexcused four times, then they have to attend a Wednesday school. If students are tardy/unexcused five, six, or seven times, they have to serve Saturday schools. If students are tardy/unexcused eight or more times, they have to serve OSS. This rule is unfair to many students, including the ones who have to travel a long time to and from school.
This rule is unfair to kids because it puts a lot of pressure on kids to get to school, which in some cases might cause reckless driving as students are trying to rush into school. This increases the chance of injuries and possible fatalities.
This rule is highly unfair to some students who do not live close to the school or students who have to travel on roads with heavy traffic, which prevents them from getting to school on time. This new rule is also unfair to students who have family issues because some kids have to take care of their siblings and stay home for a while. With some students also having to pick up other students this causes multiple students to be late at a time just because some people do not live close enough to the school for them to be picked up by the bus.
This rule can also cause some students to start arguments and protest against the principal because of how it is unfair to them. To the kids who think this rule is unfair and inconsiderate, they will argue against the teachers because kids obviously do not like serving punishments like Wednesday and Saturday schools. While kids argue against the rule, the protests will cause even more punishments for students, which can only get worse and worse.
Most kids in high school will stay up late at night and because of this, they are exhausted in the morning and are lazy or slow, which causes them to be late to school. According to the National Educational Association (NEA), 29 percent of high school students sleep through their alarm or even forget to set an alarm to get up for school. The NEA also states that 33 percent of high school students miss the bus in the morning.
This rule is unfair to students who have many reasons to not get to school on time. When kids have the pressure of getting to school on time without speeding and not being able to regard the effects of anyone else, it is unfair to enforce this new tardy rule.