Being Late To School Essay

Why should people show up to school late if they are going to get less of a punishment than calling in sick and then their day is freed up? Through my experience, I have realized that high school students would rather skip a whole entire day of school because they end up being late to school due to something last second popping up. The reason for this behavior is since many schools would rather have students get harsh punishments for not being to school on time even for being a couple of minutes late. Sometimes these punishments don’t make any sense at all such as, getting an out of school suspension. Which is being suspended from school and then I believe the kid or a parent can pick up the school work after school. The reason it doesn’t make …show more content…
He has his license and can drive around now, the only problem is that in the morning when he must take his siblings to school is, that his mother works third shift and she arrives home around the time Jimmy needs to start heading out. Every school day he must get his two siblings ready and feed them breakfast. It is difficult for him because at the same time he must get ready with them. In the winter days, he has to shovel snow early in the morning so his mother can make it up the driveway and so there is a less chance of his siblings falling. Also, there is no school buses within walking distance of his house or else they would take that instead. Most of the days he manages to drop his siblings on time and arrive to his school on time. Then there are those occasional days where there happens to be some obstacle that makes him a bit late such as his mother getting stuck in traffic, slowing the speed due to weather conditions, and his siblings not cooperating. Now, since it is the winter months he has racked up a couple of detentions, but since he drives his siblings to school he cannot stay after school and if he arrives late he gets a couple of out of school …show more content…
If it happens occasionally the hours missed from school would still add up quickly. If students are going to be late and they know they will receive a not as harsh punishment, they will end up only missing the minutes they are being late not the whole day. I know that it is still different from being on time, but at the end it will be the best option to attempt to bring the absent percentage down from our schools. I also believe that with the method the schools have now will make the students more likely to use emergency time instead of being late to work. It does not take a lot of resources and in fact it might lower some resources by lowering the staff needed to keep watch on students after school, as for the lunch it literally can be any staff who is already in the building. People who don’t care about students would say that it will only make students be late more since it’s a less harsh punishment, however some students don’t choose to be late, unexpected things happen and that is what makes their time short. In conclusion, I believe that lowering punishments for being late will help improve the percentage of students who attend school. Also, students will make the effort of being on time since getting a lunch detention is still not a cool thing to receive. There is also another reason