“Student Fines” is an article about Noble Street College Prep, a charter school is Chicago, that fines its students for breaking the rules. Such fines come from untied shoe laces or buttons that are unbuttoned. The dean of the school Michael Milkie, says that it is the best thing he has come up with and that it works great. Some people find this unfair; especially the parents you can’t afford to pay the fines, while other families say that they “need to tell their kids to straighten up”. While many have protested this and tried to remove it from the school it has not worked. Milkie has noted that is works and he won’t do away with it.
Although I can see the good in a policy such as that one, I would not like to attend a school like that. I believe teachers and school officials should focus more on inspiring the students to do more with their life so they enjoy getting an education instead of focusing on the little stuff that will make them want to drop out of school. Students don’t like getting in trouble, and when they are repeatedly are getting detentions for untied shoe laces they are just going to stop coming to school. I believe that is less students got ISS for their breast hanging out then more people would be at school here at Pine Ridge. I will be the first to admit I don’t want to see someone breast or butt however if we let the students here be more comfortable then maybe more students would come. We need to focus on the big issues like fighting, cheating on exams, and smoking on campus.
My conclusion is this, let student’s feel comfortable. The more restrictions you give us the less we want to follow them. If you let us be us a little more maybe we will follow your rules. Also giving us a bunch of rules to follow is NOT going to inspire us to want to make it through high school and move on with our lives.
In parts of New York, it is illegal to even have a cell phone while on school campus. They don’t care if it’s on or off. They even check your person while entering the school. They have taken away this privilege because they feel they were distracting the students. They were paying way to much attention to the phone compared to the teacher. Brevard County has a rule saying that the schools can no longer do checks for lice, send a child home with it, or even tell the parent until the end of the day. I personally do not agree with that. Then of course one from Volusia County our unbelievable strict dress code! I really don’t think I have to say much about this since I already did in the first part of this blog.
Out of these three policies I honestly prefer the dress code. I don’t like being away from my cell phone, I use it for a lot more stuff then just texting my friends, as a matter of fact I barely use it to talk to friends. And that thing about lice, I got one thing to say, EWWW! If I was a risk for lice I would want that kid to go home and stay away from me. I would want to know and passing this policy has made it easier for lice to spread amongst children in elementary schools. I think that hardest rule to implement is the no cell phones. Today’s generation is attached to these things. We sleep with them on our pillows for goodness sake! Telling students they can’t have them has to be one of the biggest fights a school can put up. So in conclusion, is some spots in New York you cannot bring a cell phone on campus for any reason! In Brevard County, elementary schools no longer have to do routine lice checks, which I think were necessary. Lastly right here at home we have an outstandingly stick dress code, that I do not find necessary.
