Tardy Slips not as Effective for Learning as Previously Believed
- By The Hyena
- Jan 4, 2018
- 2 min read
A recent study of Bellarmine Preparatory School students suggests that sending students who run into first period seconds after the bell rings to the attendance office to get a tardy slip may not be as useful a learning tool as previously thought. The practice's popularity arises from its many benefits, such as promoting timeliness, keeping an accurate record of student attendance, providing much-needed time to complete homework, and giving teachers opportunities to publicly assert their dominance over their students without the hassle and risk of strapping on antlers to spar with troublesome pupils.
Despite these many advantages however, new research suggests that sending late students across campus during class may result in a loss of time in the classroom, ultimately detrimental to that student's learning. "Students who spend less time in class than their pupils tend to score lower on tests and assignments in the given class," the study's lead researcher informs The Hyena. "This trend has frightening implications for the Attendance Office's ability to provide a comprehensive secondary education to students unable to attend the beginning of their class due to tardiness."
In light of this discovery, several solutions have been proposed to deal with this apparent flaw in the system. One teacher now makes sure to spend the first ten minutes of each class rambling about a topic unrelated to their course matter to ensure that each student has an equal opportunity to learn. More comprehensive solutions consider the importance of technology to student learning. One such solution involves improving the WiFi in the Campus Center so that students sent to the attendance office still have the ability to check their social media accounts, despite being out of class. Some extremists, however, have resorted to simply allowing students who arrive hundreds of seconds late to stay in class, encouraging them to dive into the course material instead of going to the office. Such extremists, of course, are dangerous to Bellarmine's mission as a modern educational facility, as many of them harbor the outright dangerous idea that education is more important than administrative policies and agendas.
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