The bell rings, students take their time to get back to the school building. They have just been to lunch for around 30 minutes. Most tardy, some not, regardless of how you think or feel there are rules and regulations you must follow when you go to a high school or any school for that matter. It’s frustrating when a teacher plans a whole almost two-hour lesson and only a third of the class shows up. They initially planned the whole lesson for nearly nobody to learn it. It’s also obnoxious when people come 30 minutes – an hour late and sit there “grubbing” on their meal in the middle of the class. From my personal experience as a high schooler that has off-campus lunch I can verify that you can have lunch and make it to class on time. Making a change in your lunch locations might also help you out some, physically and class wise. Being so tardy to class will catch up with you as well, if you’ve ever heard of those attendance contracts, that’s what awaits you. I can’t just say all of this without crediting the other point of view. As being the tardy kid at the beginning of the year and missing a lot of class I can tell you that being tardy isn’t for the reasons staff or administrators suspect half of the time. It’s just that people are very slow in the lunch places we go to, we socialize, lose track of time, have fun with our friends, etc. Not the scolding reasons I’ve heard from security and other staff. I can’t vouch that this is everybody’s reasons for being tardy, but this is the main causes of it for most of us. Yes, we could eat the school lunch, but you guys could also make it actually taste like real food, no disrespect to the kitchen people. Nobody wants to munch on rubber and awful pizza all lunch, then shortly after have to explode the bathroom at school because they have no choice. You guys also could provide a longer lunch for the almost two-hour classes you put us through on a daily. We have 4 hours of class before we go to lunch for 30-minutes. That’s really disappointing that we can sit there and learn for 8 hours straight and then only be provided a 30-minute break in between that. Then you wonder why a portion of students are tardy and another portion just skips. In my opinion, it’s not okay to be tardy. You should be going to class and completing assignments and getting good grades. I also get it though, as a student you barely get any free time. Other than the pathetic “free period” that’s only provided because the school doesn’t have enough staff for every student. The school should change some of their regulations and then see what it does. If nothing changes, then change it back. The changes that we currently are undergoing are rules enforced based off of the actions of the previous freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes. Why should the classes of this year have to suffer because of what previous people did? In conclusion,  it’s a wiser choice to be on time to your classes and to be turning in your assignments so that you can be on route to graduation. As a student though, I can also see where the hassle we give comes from.