Riiiinnggg!! A school bell or a wake-up call? Under the new school policy, after the sounding of the second bell, students not seated will now face severe consequences that include detention and referrals. The new policy is part of a package of stricter disciplinary actions addressing tardiness, dress and behavioral codes, and a crackdown on drugs and alcohol.
The WASC committee who decided that the weakest point in Harbor was the discipline, identified the biggest problem was an alarming amount of tardies. A solution to this difficulty was to implement a new policy that punishes people who come into their class late without an excuse by giving them detention. The policy requires that tardy students sign a pink sheet that hangs in every classroom, the teacher must then call the students parents to inform them of their child's tardy. After the first offense, which gives the tardy student ten minutes after class, the second offense will lead to an hour-long detention. Failure to attend detention
Contrarily much of the staff believes that the policy is long overdue complaining that tardiness has been a prevalent problem, causing an interruption of class.
Another area the new policies focus upon are drugs and alcohol. In the past semester the administration has seen an increase in the usage of drugs and alcohol, which in turn has led to an increase in the disciplinary measures taken against it. With the new policy the administration is going to crack down on
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