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School Policy Doesn’t Allow Students Much Freedom

    I think that schools, city schools in general, do not allow their students much freedom.  I have been in schools located in the suburbs and in the city.  When I went to Hoffman Estates High School, I did not have to walk through metal detectors and present an I.D. on demand to security.  I was able to come and go to school freely.  It was so open that you could leave the school almost whenever and get back in just as easily as you left.  They even left the doors unlocked.  We could leave for lunch and we would just have to make it back in time for our next class.  I only had four classes for the whole day and was picked up and dropped off by a school bus.  Also, cell phones were allowed, but you just could not walk around with the phone to your ear.  If you had an I pod or MP3 player, the teachers were flexible with allowing students to listen to them during classroom downtime. Some students who came from other schools also said that they were able to have cell phones; they were not allowed text or answer them in class.

   

    But now I am enrolled in a public school in the city and it is the opposite.  I do not have a school bus coming to pick me up; I have to get on the bus or the train.  This can hurt your pockets if you have to pay for your own things.  At the door upon entrance, I have to empty all metal or magnetic objects from my pockets and turn in my electronics.  Also, I have to show my I.D. to get in.  I personally think that it’s stupid to take a student’s cell phone and bipod from them because the principal thinks it is unnecessary and will interfere with the teacher teaching.  If the teacher is good, then they would not have to compete with an bipod for the student’s attention.  I can leave the school, but if I get caught they want to send me to the disciplinary office where they write you up and SEND YOU HOME!!!  I just feel that the schools in the city take unnecessary approaches to problems that have simple solutions.

 

     Some of the other students I interviewed said they did not like the policy about cell phones.  They felt that it was necessary for the

students to have some sort of communication device in case of emergency.  They follow must of the policies, but they only get in trouble for sneaking their cell phones in.  When asked what school policy she would change, Latah Farley replied, “I would change the cell phone policy to where they would allow them in school. It would prohibit the students to have them, but they could not sit in class testing and making calls during the time they have to sit and learn.”  If the school board changed the policy, at least for having cell phones, then I think the students would be more willing to follow the rules.  It’s a lot easier to have the cooperation of the students when you show that as principal, you’ll grant them rights and rewards for following your rules and regulations.

 

 

 

                                                                                    

~ by cranenews on February 26, 2009.

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