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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From Westfield today. We have received zero messaging about weapons detection.

Greetings.  All Westfield families are receiving this message.  Please note that students who accumulate between 5 and 10 unexcused tardies or class cuts in one week will receive lunch detention and be placed on pass restrictions (from 4 to 2 per day).  Students who accumulate 11+ unexcused tardies or class cuts in one week will receive an afterschool detention and will be pass restricted to 1/day.  When students have four weeks of 11+ unexcused tardies or class cuts (consecutively or not), they will be placed on full day escort and parents will be invited to a meeting at school. This is a change from last year.  Tardies and class cuts will be monitored on weekly basis.  Please talk with your student and remind them to arrive to class on time and to not leave class without permission.  Thank you for your support and partnership! :)

Best,
Maranda Black
Dean of Students[/quote]

What is this nonsense? Is this the worst run school in Fairfax? You were tardy because our line is too long, so now YOU CANT GO TO THE BATHROOM? That's what "passes" are, bathroom passes.[/quote]

Their punishment for tardies is can’t go to the bathroom????????[/quote]

Wtf are you talking about? It doesn’t say that at all in her email. It says they will be reduced in how many passes they can get to leave class. The kid doesn’t get the privilege of leaving class so often anymore since they clearly have a problem with cutting or being late. The kid can use the bathroom at lunchtime or in between classes. This is not unreasonable at all.[/quote]

It's really not. Going to the bathroom isn't some special privilege. You get to go to the bathroom because human beings actually have to go to the bathroom -- some more than others. This isn't prison. If a kid is known to be cutting class, that should be dealt with according to normal procedures (i.e., detention). Assuming every kid who has accumulated tardies is cutting class rather than actually establishing that is what is happening is lazy and then imposing this special punishment that could be difficult or embarrassing for some kids is cruel. My kids have been late to first class every day this week, despite arriving on time, due to the weapons screening line. Punishing them for the schools failures is ridiculous. [/quote]

The kids with a ton of tardies and bathroom visits are taking pee breaks.

They are the kids vaping in the bathroom.

You wouldn't give them smoking breaks, so why should they get vaping breaks?[/quote]

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