The school has a policy for tardies that allows students to have eight tardies before they lose credit per class and four tardies before given detention. This is often unfair to students who have a hard time getting to school right away in the morning. The school is far from the majority of the town, meaning that most students have to drive pretty far to get to the school. There’s also traffic to consider: it can slow people down, and there can even be complete stops in traffic due to car accidents.

Sometimes a student’s alarm won’t go off in the morning. Some students rely on other people to get them to school; what if that person won’t get up in the morning? What if they take forever getting ready to go? It’s not always the student’s fault when they are late for their first period. It can be hard to get to school on time in the mornings and most of the causes are out of anyone’s control.

Students are getting punished unfairly for being late to their first periods. Students shouldn’t be punished for things outside of their control. At the very least, the school could give students an exception for the first hour with the tardy policy. They could either give them an allowance for more tardies or just exempt first hour from the policy entirely. Without a change, students can get detention and even lose credit because of things out of their control.