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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here:  first period tardies are the bane of my existence.  It makes it really hard to get class started effectively.  Kids arrive to school 5-10 min before the first period bell and then blame the line for being late.  I tell students they need to plan to arrive at the school about 30 minutes before the start of 1st period.  Tardiness is contagious because the kids who do come on time see how many others don’t.  Then teachers often adjust the lesson because even if you want to it is next to impossible to start class with 4 kids there and then just keep going uninterrupted as kids trickle in over the next 30 minutes.  [/quote]

OP, this is the issue. I’d be talking with your kid about how disrespectful it is to the teacher and counterproductive to learning it is to show up late. This is what we told our kids from the time they were little—the issue isn’t that you’ll get in trouble for being late or disruptive or whatever, it’s that your behavior affects other people. My kids both went to JR and talked about how so many kids were late to first period, but they always showed up on time.

If the moral/ethical angle doesn’t work and your kid needs a push, you could also tell them that teachers notice the kids who show up and are positive contributors to the classroom, which makes a real difference when it comes to things like college recommendations. JR teachers were always effusive about my kids as community members beyond their academic accomplishments. They had multiple teachers to choose from when it came time for recommendations.[/quote]

I'm a professor and this is what I tried and failed to impress upon my stepsons. It's not enough to just be smart when it comes to recommendations. Teachers like and will recommend kids who are "with it." Kids who show up on time, do all their assignments, and turn everything in on time. You should try to make a good impression.[/quote]

Someone needs to repost this in the SWW feed. People want their scores to vouch for their kids and they forget these little disciplines really matter. Recommendations expose the lack of these disciplines in students.

1) To be on time is to be late; 2) To be early is to be on time; 3) Anticipate what can go wrong and do not make an excuse (i.e. the bus schedule).

Buy paperback books so if they are early they can read and expand their mind without doom scrolling. JR has dropped the ball but I don't rely on any school to parent my child. That is my job as a parent.[/quote]

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