With the rise of tardies during the second semester of the school year, CSArts administration has come up with a creative approach to prevent tardies: The Tardy Sweep. This system would give students’ families immediate action after a student is late to their class.
The process doesn’t have a set date, but Assistant Principal Leon Metoyer says, “Theoretically, teachers would close their doors when the bell rings, and students who arrive late would be directed to transition to a designated space where they would receive a tardy slip.” Students will be expected to notify their parents of their tardiness before returning to their class.
The idea initially came when Metoyer was standing with a colleague during a passing period and noticed students arriving late to class, observing that they had, “little care in the world.” According to Metoyer, arriving late to class impacts the instructional workspace by affecting a teachers’ ability to start lessons on time, limiting peers’ opportunities for learning, and forcing teachers to repeat directions or a lesson a student may have missed. “As a result, we began to question whether we are fully honoring our foundational pillars of ‘Welcome’ and ‘Do No Harm’ within our pre-professional learning environment.”
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