tardy

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>so our school had a delayed opening and the bell schedule got all mixed up</p>

<p>after lunch, when it was time to ring the bell to indicate the class has begun, it didn't ring</p>

<p>I didn't know and I actually got an unexcused tardy at my report card</p>

<p>About 90% of students got the tardy mark ( especially since I had a very strict teacher)</p>

<p>It's my first tardy but still I feel really bad</p>

<p>Am I overreacting? Is 1 tardy gonna affect me at all throughout my HS life? </p>

<p>Thx :)</p>

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<p>LOL! You have no clue how much this thread makes me laugh! You are freaking out about one tardy when I have gotten to the point multiply times where I am about to lose credit because of to many tardies and abstances. </p>

<p>Anyway to asnwer your question though, yes you are over reacting! It is just one tardy no one is perfect. And even if it does go on your transcipt (i don’t see how it would…) colleges will understand. Like I said no one is perfect.</p>

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<p>Getting a tardy in high school means absolutely nothing. Colleges will not care (unless you have a ridiculous amount of tardies). Some teachers assign detentions after 3 tardies, but only 1 will not hurt you whatsoever, so you have nothing to worry about :)</p>

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<p>It’s really no big deal. Most schools allow you to have at least three tardies before you’re actually ‘in trouble,’ but I don’t know the rules at your school. I don’t even consider having a tardy a blemish – it’s a sign that you’re a normal high school student.</p>

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<p>yes, you will be rejected from all schools for a tardy</p>

<p>say hi to community college</p>

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<p>have your counselor write a couple pages explaining the situation because I’ve heard schools look severely down upon tardies and may even reject top students on that basis. Prompt attendance is everything…</p>

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<p>^That’s not going to be enough. You need full documentation of the bell schedule problem, the circumstances surrounding it, the cause of the problem, and statistics on all of the tardies given out that day. Getting all of this data is hard enough and is usuallyl a weed-out process; if everyone could get into Ivy league schools with a tardy but without a detailed explanations, the number of applications would soar. You also should probably do a research paper on tardies as the gateway penalty, and use it to show how you have overcome the risks of becoming a delinquent that this tardy has presented to you. Hope this helps :)</p>

<p>[/redundant ■■■■■ post]</p>

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<p>Pleasee don’t worry about one tardy.
I don’t think that tardy’s go on anything official for our school, but if they did, I’d have like probably 50 tardies in just my two years of high school so far.
You’re gonna be late eventually.
A lot of my teachers don’t even count tardies, especially since our school is pretty big, and it can take about 10 minutes to walk from one side of campus to the other, so usually I’m late to at least one class a day.</p>

<p>SO pleasee don’t worry about this. It’s one tardy, which was bound to happen anyway. There will definitely be TONS of students applying to top schools with way more than only one tardy, so you’ll be fine.</p>