Tardiness: High School and Students

Have you ever wondered about the effects that would be brought if school started later? At the moment, school clearly begins too early. This is a problem that is unquestionably bringing negative affects to many students. Many schools throughout the country are addressing this problem by considering school schedule changes including later start times for middle and high schools. Research indicates there are unfavorable effects to current school schedules, as well as well as positive effects to delayed start times. To best meet the needs of teens, school should start later.

Day after day, late students are punished or end up in detention due to short passing periods. Having short passing periods can make a student’s grade go down or worse when students are late to class. This can be prevented by extending passing periods to 10 minutes. Although the staff at H.P.M.S may disapprove, but in the long run, they will see the effects of having longer passing periods has on students. Because of the short time of passing periods, students at Happy Place Middle School are petitioning to extend their passing period time to 10 minutes. In short, some of the positive effects are that students can get to class on time, and gives students and teachers time to prepare.

Shorter passing times are much more dangerous than they may seem. According to Rachel Pancare, author of “Effects of Tardiness on Your Child’s Education,” as a result of frequent tardies, students can have a hard time getting used to their schedules, something kids tend to rely on a lot. In middle school, students are very aware of how they’re

If students were not late to class, they would be able to go do their extra curricular activities after school. In the article Longer Passing Periods, by Jason Li “ Not only would there be fewer detentions, but citizenship grades would improve”. Many teachers count tardiness when grading citizenship. It’s not fair to students that have to walk all the way across campus and still need to get ready for the next class. If they had more time there will be less detentions. Also citizenship grading will go

Here’s a look into an average high school classroom during first period. Kids are slowly shuffling in, reluctant to take their seats. Some grip their coffee cups, depending on those 2 cups of caffeine to get them through the day. Others have given up completely, with their head on the desk and a small puddle of drool forming on the desk. A majority of the kids will arrive just as the bell is rings, the ones who hit the snooze button too many times. While others who take their time in the morning, walk in just before the period ends. Why is this classroom such a dull scene? I forgot to mention it’s 7:50 in the morning and it’s a classroom full of teenagers, who are the most exhausted generation of adolescents.

This category is primarily characterized by students who are struggling with time management, and therefore, are constantly having difficulty getting to class on time. Despite the fact that they may be occasionally tardy, these students often have excellent attendance and show a willingness to learn. Unlike the high school students, it appears that these students show less of a concern with social interaction and are more concerned with getting to and from their classes.

Tardies ranged from 0-83 times. Upon analyzing this attendance data it becomes clear that student tardy rates significantly impact student performance in CSI classes.

The students of this generation appear to be a bunch of lazy, depressed, unenergetic zombies, but is this entirely their fault? After a considerable amount of investigating it appears as if their lack of energy could be due to sleep deprivation resulting from early school start times. When later school times have been compared to those schools that start earlier, there are significant changes in the behaviors and results that students emit in a school environment. Schools should have a later start time that is better suited to the biological needs of adolescents as a way to aid them in achieving a higher quality education.

When I was a freshman, I never came late to my first class. Nowadays, I wake up at 7 A.M, if it is one of my luckiest days. I have to admit that I have become extremely lazy after being accepted to a university. If somebody were to open my attendance, the first word that will catch their eyes probably would be “tardy.” Yes, senioritis has hit me hard like most of the other seniors.

Relevance: As most of you know, attendance is crucial for you to do well in your classes. It’s also crucial to be on time. However; there are 30,320 students who live off campus and rely on the Bobcat shuttle transportation system to get them from their homes to class on time (Texas

At 1:10 pm their classes start, and each student sits at their desk either thoroughly bored or thoroughly interested in what’s being taught, but their all watching the clock waiting for school to end at 2:40 pm.

If the school that a child is attending is a multi-track school (which i will touch more on later) then their is most likely more than one building which can lead parents teachers with children or regular parents with children to be late. American families have become used to the traditional school schedule and planning around the traditional school schedule. Planning anything could confuse parents due to the unusual school schedule if they plan something during school it might affect the student's grades. The new school schedule could be difficult for adults and children alike to adjust to.

Late start school would have a negative impact on athletes, students, and teachers that do activities after school. Late start school would mean later end times so if they have to do something after school, there would be less time for those activities. Some say that changing practice time would be a fix but that only

School’s start times have been an arising issue in the United States for many years and recently began to surface. More and more individuals everyday are realizing the effects of a school’s start time on those attending the school, teaching at the school, parents of those who attend the school as well as the surrounding community. “…education seems to be the most sleep-deprived field in America” (Black, 2001). Beginning a school’s start time at 7:17 in the morning isn’t the best time to try and teach adolescents calculus or Shakespeare. “For many, the unusually early start time is nothing short of torturous. A survey of 26 Denver –area companies showed that the average adult trudges into

Have you ever had an essay due in three weeks and thought to yourself, “I’ve got time. I’ll just do it later”? Does staying up studying for an exam until 3 am in the morning sound familiar? How about running to class because you were working on a project until the very last second? If any of these unfortunate situations sound relatively familiar, you have endured the horrendous event of procrastination at some point of your jam-packed life. The one secret that nobody is enforcing on your young life is the extreme power of time management. In Chapter 5, the topics we address are as follows: