my story

The administration’s new creation of Tardy sweeps here at Akins, has caused much stir with the students by giving them harsher consequences for being late, in hopes of increasing attendance and participation.

The Tardy sweeps seem to do the exact opposite of what administration had hoped.

Robert Robles, Junior, says that “far too many,” of his friends have been caught in a tardy sweep at least once. Proving that the Sweeps are keeping students out of class longer than they would be originally.

Although most of the students are negative towards the sweeps, mainly the ones caught in them, some remain positive towards the sweeps, assuring the staff that it’s a good change.

One of those supportive students is Glen Cruz, Senior, who feels that if “your late you deserve to go to Saturday school,” and that Saturday school is very effective because “it takes your absences away.”

Yet in common conversation, sweeps are constantly brought up. Juniors Cecelia Munoz, Casey Oswald, and Christie Gonzales were discussing and came to little agreement about the subject.

All seemed to have negative opinions about them, Cecelia felt that the sweeps are “dumb,” Casey thinks they are “stupid,” and Christie said she is “not fond of the sweeps because it’s unfair for kids who are rarely late.” And when asked if they were effective all gave mixed opinions. Casey and Christie feel that “they are effective,” because Christie “now sees kids running to class and actually making an effort to be on time.” Although Cecelia says “no they are not.”

Out of the 5 people I interviewed only 2 of them have been caught in a sweep. So either the system is working or my interviewees are prone to timeliness.