When students come to school early on a Wednesday for late arrival, some teachers and security officers have a big issue about the students being in the hall before 9:30.

Some students make plans to come earlier than 9:30 in order to meet teachers, go to their lockers, study or get extra tutoring. When students enter the building, they are directed to go to the cafeteria, library or rotunda.

One of the main reasons for having late arrival is to meet teachers during office hours. Students feel as if there is no point in making an appointment with teachers if they will be turned back by security.

When you do get busted in the halls, the security officer or teacher asks where are you going even if you don’t look suspicious. Usually, when a student is in the halls before the bell rings they have a purpose or else they would most likely not be in the halls.

Most late arrival mornings teachers have meetings either in the building or elsewhere. However, at the beginning of the year, students were told that teachers would spend half of the morning in meetings, then spend the other half available for office hours. Students would be able to communicate with their teachers during that time. However, this idea has not come to fruition.

Teachers are spending more and more time in meetings with the freshmen moving up next year. Coming early in the morning is a time for students to learn missed information. Most students count on that extra time to come in and make up missed assignments.

Students aren’t getting enough access to teachers, and when they do, their time is severely limited. The concept was fine. The execution was not as fine. Keeping loitering students out of the hallway is OK, but the administration needs to make sure it is not keeping the students trying to learn out as well.