Why Do Hall Sweeps

Students run through the finish line. The finish line being the classroom. These students run out of breath to not get swept up like dirt. What happens if you don’t make it in time? You get swept up and end up missing out important information or assignments in class. These hall sweeps should be diminished. The administrators at Milton High School don’t realize that many students don’t mean to be late. Let’s take first period hall sweeps as an example. Many people have different morning routines. Perhaps, many juniors or seniors that are late is due to the amount of traffic on the way to school which they have no control over. So, the first thing that happens once they enter the school, they get a hall sweep slip, which is unfair. Then there are those students that hope they make it in time to go to their locker and back to their class before the tardy bell rings, which, again, they aren’t trying to be late. Now, this could happen during any period of a hall sweep. When we had an extinction, where we stopped the hall sweeps for about 2 days, students forgot about them. On the third day, …show more content…
Now, I know in my Latin class that if I miss 10 minutes of class time, I miss my opportunity to do the warm up that would count as a quiz grade in the future. If you have a test in a class, though, and you miss the first 10-15 minutes of class time, that was time that you could’ve used to take the test. Instead, you’d have to wait in line to get your name on the hall sweep list during that 10-15 minutes. Hall sweeps waist valuable time. Not only do students miss quizzes, warm ups, or test time, but also class instructions. This may not seem to be “that big” of a deal, but many times, class instructions may be very important. Class instructions inform students on what they will be doing for the entire class period, so the students would be able to work