BLOG # 18

One of the changes I would make to my high school campus is that instead of issuing tardy sweeps, which issue saturday school detentions, to make phone calls to parents inform that their student are issued mandatory saturday school. Tardy sweeps are not really effective because they only make you more late to class.  If you are late to class for three minutes those few minutes become fifteen to twenty minutes late that because the campus staff are issuing detentions individually. For students that are constantly being tardy this may be seen as an lesson for them but it still affects them greatly. A fellow classmate was late because one of the her siblings was ill and could not leave because their mom was not their. Although her mother called the school to inform the student was going to be late, she was still issued a mandatory Saturday school although it was considered an excused tardy.She was fifteen minutes late to class when she was five minutes school, because of this she lost the first section of the lesson. this scenario exemplifies how tardy sweeps can intervene with our education. Yes I agree with  handing out detention to students that are willingly late,however all the other students that are late and could not do anything about it why should they be deprived from those minutes their losing due to the fact that they have to wait in line to receive their detention slip. I would also change our bell schedule. we have four days of block schedule and one complete day but our starting time is at 9 am instead of 8 am. Due to the fact that we have collaboration Mondays we are released at 3 pm almost every Friday. It would allow everybody do everything they want to do on that day, they are many families that have to wait for their older children to be released and go to Tijuana and have to wait in a long line. Since Friday is the beginning if the weekend we should change our schedule to having block schedule  Monday through Thursday and on Friday be a full day and be released early. I would also remove SMI from our schedule , this was first introduced as an initiative for students to have good grades in their classes. Having an A or B would allow the student to leave the class that has SMI for an hour, while the students that are behind in the class can receive more help from the teacher. Right now we all have to stay for three hours in a certain class in some of my classes we are not required to do something we can just have to sit and do nothing unless you have to retake a test but they are very few students that actually do that. I believe that they should either remove it or make it function as it did the previous year.These would be the two changes I would make to my high school campus.