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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: September 25, 2011, 04:19:36 PM »Tardiness was a separate and somewhat complicated issue in high school to say the least.
Speaking of tardies, have any of you heard of (or have) the "Tardy Eliminator System" or "Tardy Sweep?"This is a fairly new thing, overall. My high school implemented it in the spring semester of this year. It's basically just another way to crack down on tardies and reduce them. What happens is that the teachers lock their doors once the tardy bell rings, and if a student is late to class, he or she has to go to a station, get the ID scanned, and then walk back to class with a pass. To get into the classroom, the student must display this pass in the window of the door. With two tardies, a student is let off with a warning. More tardies mean more severe punishments, the worst not being executed but by having three days of ISS. If any of you have this system implemented at your school or have heard of it, I'd be interested to hear your comments about it. I can see both its advantages and disadvantages.
Yeah, we had that when I was in high school, but the first time if you were caught, you got administrative detention which is stupid to me, but if you were caught more than once and given a tardy slip during a tardy sweep you got in school suspension. Personally, the way it was done at my school I considered it ineffective and not full-proof because you still could be allowed to come into class late with or without the tardy slip and most times teachers didn't lock their doors, they just closed them after the tardy bell ranged. Getting tardy slips for being tardy coming to school made even less sense because it was only documented as a tardy if the teacher's class you were late going to marked it as a tardy on the school's online attendance system, they could have just marked you present (which some teachers did do) instead and it wouldn't go down as a tardy. Getting 3 tardy slips being late getting to school equaled up to 1 absence and 10 absences in one schoolyear equals up to a good chance you most likely will be kicked out of school and will probably sent to an alternative school, but I know there were Seniors who missed as much as a month of school and not only stayed, but graduated too.
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, unlike last winter when I had snow showers that didnt stick 
maybe around late december mid/late january and or early to mid February we may see snow in my area of Texas. we have been getting snow every year since 2008 and I have no doubt we wont see any this year, im sure of it 
The last time we have a crippling icestorm was in January 29, 2005 and surprisingly we have had mostly nothing but snow the following winters since. Another surprise was how great last winter was snowfall wise, last winter was the first time I saw double digit snowfall, we picked up 10 inches total.