Controversial New Policy
This policy is intended to help liberate the students and have them be more accountable for bringing their things. The office always had to battle with aggravated parents and students who tried to find loop holes. Alyssa Stammerjohan (’16) argues that, “homework, textbooks, and even projects, should be allowed to be dropped off in the office for a child’s educational purposes.”
November 4, 2015
Starting Monday November 2, Don Lugo is enforcing a new rule that prohibits parents from dropping off students’ belongings or food.
Parents can no longer bring their student’s forgotten homework or sports equipment, nor can they drop off food for lunch. Parents can drop off clothes for their student if they were dress coded or in extreme need of a change of clothes. Optimistic of its trial run, Mrs. Lopez-Gutierrez explains that “The office was becoming a message board, so we really want to make sure that kids are more accountable for the things that they are bringing to school with them.”
The new policy was implemented because of both parents and students always trying to find a way to loop hole the rule. Vicky, the office secretary, was constantly overwhelmed with issuing out call slips for students to get their items when she still had to do her job. On top of this there were times when students wouldn’t come to the office to gather their belongings, and the parents blamed the office instead of the student. Vicky says, “In this case, a few spoiled it for the whole.”
Although this new policy is praised by the office, some students are not entirely on board with it. Alyssa Stammerjohan, a senior at DL, says that “The only part of the policy I have a slight discrepancy with is a parent not being able to bring textbooks or homework. If a student forgets homework, I think their guardian should be able to bring their homework, drop it off, and help them avoid a missing or late assignment.”
