The Value Of Tardies According To Smithville High School

According to Smithville High School’s 2015-2016 handbook, if you have a certain number of tardies you lose your driving privileges for a duration of time. I strongly disagree with the policy that Smithville High School has put into effect that states that if you have a number of tardies during your semester, you will lose your driving privileges. This policy should be dropped for many reasons. I believe this will harm students more than it will help them because if they can’t drive to school themselves, there is a greater chance of them coming to school late, they also have other responsibilities outside of school, I don’t believe that five tardies is fair for a whole school year and when the weather gets bad, students shouldn’t have to risk …show more content…
Without a car at school, students would have to ride the bus home, having them arrive at their house at three o’clock or even later and some students work at three o’clock. This would cause them to be late to work and possibly even lose their job. Now student are forced to be irresponsible for being late to school and now work. The school should try and enforce responsibility and encourage kids to go to work on time and make money. If students also play sports or are involved in extracurricular activities within the school, without their car they wouldn’t be able to participate because they would have to ride the bus home if they didn’t have a ride home. With softball, if i missed practices before a game i would have to sit the bench for that game. That not only hurts the students but the school too if they need that player. With the policy students’ outside responsibilities and extracurricular activities will be affected …show more content…
If they can’t drive to school themselves, there is a greater chance of them coming to school late. Also students have other responsibilities outside of school that can be affected greatly if they don’t have a car to drive back and forth. The policy also states that after five tardies that is when you lose your driving privileges, and I feel this isn’t enough for a whole school year. The last reasoning is depending on the weather some students live on back roads and don’t have cars that easy get around in the snow if school doesn’t get called off. Students should just get a detention instead, depending on their reasoning. At least then, they are more flexible with detentions. Some students serve their detentions before school because they have other things to do outside of school after school and don’t have the time after. This will help students be more prompt to school and be able to prioritize their other responsibilities to be on time to