Rushing through the hallways, continuously checking the time on your phone, and panicking at the thought of being late to your next class…sound familiar? Four minutes seems like it flies by when you’re jammed in hallway traffic. It is not a fair amount of time to get from one end of the school to another.
Everybody knows how stressful getting to class on time can be, especially when you have a strict teacher who might give you a detention or call you out in front of the class.
I believe that from the time the first bell rings to leave class to the time that the next bell rings for class to start should be longer than four minutes. As it stands now, I am either always late or practically running through the hallways to make it on time.
One of the main reasons is because of hallway traffic. With nearly 1600 students at Marist, the hallways get extremely jammed up because we are all pouring out of the classrooms at the same time. The slow walkers are just the cherry on top.
MHS media conducted to see what sophomores think about this situation.
When asked, “How many times a day are you late to class?” 40.5% of the sophomores responded 1-2 times a day. This was the majority of the students’ answers. 27% of students said that they are late to classes three or more times a day, while 24.3% answered that they are never late to class, which I find hard to believe considering my own personal experience.
When the students were questioned how much time they thought was a reasonable amount to make it to class on time without rushing, 62.2% of them answered that five minutes was a good amount of time.
I fully agree that five minutes is the most reasonable and a perfect amount of time to get to class. It is only adding one minute to the time that we already have, so it won’t be some drastic change in Marist.
Some students believe that they need more time added, 10.8% of the responses stated that they think six minutes is fair. Only 24.3% replied that they always make it to class before the bell rings and that they don’t need any longer than four minutes.
Clearly, the majority of the sophomores agree with me that this needs to change. If you feel as strongly about this as I do, then make it known to Principal Dunneback.
