<p>OMG, our tardy policy is the devil.
Public School w/ 3200 kids
7 class periods a day and 5 minute exchange time.<br>
When the bell rings, they shut and lock the doors to all the classes. At this point you've got to go to the office and wait in the line (of like 30 people) to get a pass to class.
1. Warning
2. Sent to viceprincipal
3. Lunch Detention
4. Lunch Detention
5. Saturday School
Freaks of nature! :-]</p>
<p>at my d's school 9 unexcused tardies = 1 lunch detention; if they skip that it's Sat school</p>
<p>also I think if you are late no homework will be accepted and you get a 0...
that one is truly insidious</p>
<p>That is ridiculously ridiculous, basically all the juniors and seniors in my school show up late and you need ten to get some sort of punishment and our attendance office people are so nice half the days all tardies are excused (okay not half days, but 2/3 of my tardies :)) so sux for y'all</p>
<p>A lot of the teachers in my school who have 1st period classes often take off homework points when kids are late for first period. It annoys me to death; especially because the traffic around the school is EXTREMELY congested; thanks to somebody's bright idea to put a crowded elementary school, a somewhat crowded junior high school, and an extremely overpopulated high school all within 20 feet of one another.</p>
<p>haha. wow. last year, my homeroom teacher is this silly blonde (I love her though, and she's actually very smart) who used to enforce our late-to-homeroom = lunch detention policy because our pricipal knew that she didnt care and so he pretty much watched her. thus, the next time she was late to homeroom, she got a detention from us, aka "get out of detention free pass."</p>
<p>yeah. it was silly.</p>
<p>Hehe, I still think my tardy policy wins.</p>
<p>Today I was almost late because I couldn't find any socks, and yesterday the traffic was so bad I was almost late. Good thing I have the bell system timed to my car clock, so if I get up to the parking lot and it's too late, I can just keep on driving and come to school later. A lot of my friends already have Wednesday school's and ISS's according to the new policy, so we're waiting to see if they actually implement it. The news was here yesterday too, because someone called in and told about the riot being shut down two days ago.</p>
<p>at my school, it really depends on the teacher. freshman year, my 1st pd teacher was a stickler for lateness & eventually started taking points off the class participation grade for lateness. (Class participation = 10% of grade, so it wasn't so bad but it could make the difference between a letter gradei fyou were on the cusp). Then I had 0 pd gym & if you were more than 10 minutes late, you couldn't come in. In the end, lateness only mattered if the gym teachers didn't like you.</p>
<p>Then I had a teacher that would mark down "lates" in her book and make people serve before-school detentions, but you could easily talk your way out of one. </p>
<p>This year, if you come in by 8:30 (school starts at 8), the teacher's fine with it. After that, he might say something like "could you please try and get here a little earlier?". But if you're actually there by 8, you'll be sitting in the class by yourself for about 10 minutes, so...</p>
<p>Wow, that's really harsh. At my school, they're pretty laid back about tardies.</p>