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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]E hall pass is amazing from a school perspective as we can now limit how many students are in the hallway building wide.  Set the cap at 15 and it locks anyone else from submitting a pass when that number is reached.  I used it in a different school system and it was very successful.

The only downside from a teacher's perspective is that you will have to temporarily stop instruction to approve the pass but that's no different than having to stop to write a hand written pass.[/quote]

But what about kid #16 who really needs to go … like now.[/quote]
They’re SOL. These policies are absurd. You can’t go during the first 10 minutes or last 10 minutes of any class; you can’t go if too many other people already have passes; you can’t go in a bathroom if there’s already a certain number of people in it (even in between classes, so that’s not necessarily an option); the electronic pass is only good for 10 minutes, even if you’re coming from a portable, so even if you’re carrying a traditional pass, if the electronic one expires before you get back to class, you’re in trouble; you can’t go to the bathroom during classroom instruction more than 4 times per quarter (or was it semester?). I was in the health room at the beginning of lunch and there was a steady stream of kids asking the nurse if they could use the health room’s bathroom. They’re allowed to, but even during lunch, they had to sign in in multiple places and only one person can use it at a time.

On top of all this, at one of my kids’ schools, if you’re late to class, you can’t enter the classroom until 20 minutes into class. Kids who are still out in the halls when a period starts will all be shepherded into a waiting area (I can’t remember if it was the cafeteria or gym or auditorium), where they will have to wait until they all can enter their classrooms en masse 20 minutes late. The purpose is to minimize disruptions, but it also maximizes missed instructional time. My dc has to go back and forth between the third floor of the main building and the portables multiple times per day.

Hopefully the enforcement of these policies will become lax very quickly.[/quote]

At WJ, the school is so large and overcrowded, kids absolutely cannot get through a bathroom in the 5 minute passing period.

So if my daughter has to use bathroom and is three minutes late, are you saying she now has to wait 20 minutes to enter class? What if there is an exam?[/quote]

You'll find that all problems stem.from the fact that the schools are too big. If you have a problem not caused by the size of the school,  its caused by the size of the district.

When we moved here i was shocked to see voters haven't made this an issue.
Your school system dictates your property values.[/quote]

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