Eagle High announced new policies for the 2024-2025 school year, including updated tardy and Saturday school policies. Many students disagree with the new system and have voiced their opinions.  

   The new tardy policy states that a student that is 10 minutes late or leaves 10 minutes early will receive a tardy. Being more than 10 minutes late or leaving more than 10 minutes early counts as a tardy/late, which counts as two tardies. 

   A parent can call a student out of class, but it doesn’t excuse the tardy unless they have a doctors or appointment note. Lastly, having more than four tardies in one class will cause a student to lose credit for the class until made up in Saturday school.  

   “Sometimes we cannot control if we have to leave early or be tardy. In the morning if you have a family emergency or there is traffic and you get to school more than 10 minutes late, it should not count as two tardies because it’s not the student’s fault,” said sophomore Nicola Forbess. 

   Forbess claims this policy is unfair, especially to students who don’t have their license. She also said that it shouldn’t count as a tardy when leaving early. A parent call should excuse the student leaving early because it might be something important or an emergency that someone must be called out for. 

   Next, the change in the Saturday school policy has raised some frustration amongst students. The new policy includes 30 minutes of time served in Saturday school per tardy that the student has. 

   “I think we should go back to last year’s policy, 10 minutes of Saturday school per tardy,” said sophomore Colin McCloud. He explained that students shouldn’t have to spend that amount of time at school on the weekend when they are already there all week. 

   Overall, many students feel these new school policies are unfair and overly strict. They are hoping for a future reevaluation of these new tardy and Saturday school policies.