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
The behavior policy is going to resemble the rules that are applied at Santa Cruz and Soquel High. Some students believe that the dress and behavior codes will diminish the number of students who go to school dances greatly, as stated
The administration has already seen a positive change due to the policy; Dax Bryson observed that "even in the second day of enforcement
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