Starting this school year, ACE is imposing stricter measures in order to ensure that students are arriving to school on time and attending all their classes.
According to the new bell schedule, school starts at 7:50 a.m., which is ten minutes earlier than last year’s start time. Due to the schedule change, Poly administrators have noticed an upward trend in students arriving late to class.
Each class period, administrators sweep through every hall on Poly’s campus in order to make sure that students are attending their classes. Regardless of the excuse, a student will be sent to ACE if he or she is seen without a pass by a school administrator. Although students are not present in class, they are still accounted for in the attendance system.
“Students who are habitually late to class will be reported to the LBPD for loitering,” said Assistant Principal Brad Davidson.
Students who are sent to ACE spend an entire class period standing against a wall. According to the Poly administration, this measure is intended to discipline students to arrive to school on time, teach them the importance of attending class, and improve school attendance.
While ACE’s goal to make sure students are attending class has good intentions, there are students who believe that ACE’s disciplinary measures defeat its purpose.
“Occasionally, I will be late to class. However, looking at a wall as punishment for my tardiness does not encourage me to arrive on time. In fact, ACE wastes valuable class time,” said an anonymous Poly student.
Whether or not students agree with ACE’s disciplinary measures, administrators recommend that students arrive on time in order to avoid being sent to ACE.
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