Tardiness

I understand that people should attend class on time but the tardy policy at East is pretty stupid. The rule is, even if you walk into class/the school about a couple of seconds after the bell, you have to go to the attendance office to receive a pass. When you line up there are a bunch of other kids waiting in line to receive a late pass as well. It doesn't seem like teachers realize this just makes us even much later and wastes our potential class time.

Sometimes it's not even the students fault they're late. Most of the time when I come in late it is mainly because of the traffic;  if I could kick all those cars out of my way just to get to class on time I would but unfortunately like every other normal person, I can't control that. There's also people that have to wait on family members that take a long time in the mornings and that wouldn't be really fair for students who would have to go down to the office because of that one person wasting their time.

Over all I don’t like the tardy policy at East. It’s ironic that if we walk in late we’re suppose to go get a late pass that will take us five minutes to receive and that makes us later to class. Basically it’s a waste of time and money.