Locker Time- Zannatul

In most schools, students change classes when the bell rings. This is one of the things that is wrong with our school, that we don't even have bells to tell us students when to go to our next class. But even though that is besides the point I am trying to get at, the reason I am talking to you about our school is because one problem is the time between our classes. This time we have is called "locker time". Hammond Middle School 7th grade students should receive more locker time. But not only to not stress about the consequences there are for being tardy but to also to get to class on time.

As we get older, academic and social pressures create great amounts of stress. (http://www.kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=KidsHealth&lic=1&p...) Getting to class on time affect student grades with missing work at the beginning of class. These consequences such as after school detention give students stress about how well they are doing and what grades they are getting. An exact 50% of the Eagle team in Hammond Middle School think that tardy consequences for being late because we didn't have enough locker time are unfair and unfairly enforced. And 49% of the Eagle team prefer 5 minutes more of our locker time.

You may think that students might fool around when extra time is given to our locker time, but only less than 40 percent the people on the Eagle team preferred to fool around, talk to friends, apply make up, and other locker activities. More than 50 percent of the team claimed that they always try to get to their next class efficiently. But if only we knew what time our classes started and ended, all of us might actually get to our class efficiently. Students of the Eagle team should not take the blame. One thing that our teachers have done wrong is not teaching us the beginning and ending time of each class. If we actually knew how much locker time we had left, chances are most students wouldn't be fooling around in the halls. Chances are that many of the students fooling around in the halls now, are going to be in class because they know what time it is.

All of this stress later becomes confusion. To help with the traffic in the hallways everybody should walk to the right. Students should organize lockers at the beginning of the day, when they have more time, to find materials easier. We should all use the bathroom quicker and never wait for friends, just go to class. All these tips are for us students and some teachers to get to their classes faster and, for students, not receiving consequences. But these are only just in case my issue is not passed for 2007 seventh graders on the Eagle team and more seventh graders to come.