Students Should Get Rid Of Attending School

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The attendance fees at Granger High are ridiculous and many students and teachers are against them. The administrators say that these fines are helping attendance, but if they were actually helping then why did we have to get rid of second lunch because of outstanding absences after lunch? I believe that we should get rid of the fines because they are stressful, can get expensive, and hold us back from graduating.
Attendance at school is pretty bad and has led to attendance fines to be enforced. The attendance is still pretty bad and the fines are growing out of hand and causing many problems for students and faculty. The attendance has led to removing second lunch, teachers having to waste their time trying to get students to class, and students to lose motivation to get to class. Many students don’t have the money or the help from parents to pay them off. Students have the option to go to Saturday or after school classes, but some students can’t do this because of work, sports, or clubs. The Saturday and after school classes are helpful, but they don’t get rid of a …show more content…

Some students have hundreds of dollars in fines they have to pay off, so 5 dollars isn’t going to help. 90 minutes is a long time to stay at school and do nothing. A lot of students have to go to work or have plans, so staying after school for that long isn’t really convenient. Most students don’t care enough to come during school, so what makes the administration think that they would come after school? Students who don’t care about the fines and think they are a joke are surprised when they are actually enforced. Staying after school is a waste of time because students just sit there and read or do homework. Which is beneficial to the student, but it wastes the faculties time and the students don’t learn much from the experience and could be doing something better with their

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