Essay On Passing Periods

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Day after day, late students are punished or end up in detention due to short passing periods. Having short passing periods can make a student’s grade go down or worse when students are late to class. This can be prevented by extending passing periods to 10 minutes. Although the staff at H.P.M.S may disapprove, but in the long run, they will see the effects of having longer passing periods has on students. Because of the short time of passing periods, students at Happy Place Middle School are petitioning to extend their passing period time to 10 minutes. In short, some of the positive effects are that students can get to class on time, and gives students and teachers time to prepare.
In addition to that, when the passing period time is set to 10 minutes, students will have a more likely chance to get to class on time. For example, some students have their classes at the front of the school for first period, and then have to go to the back of the school for second period and don’t have enough time and get a tardy for being late . And to defend this, longer passing periods would help ...

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