Have you ever had to leave your classroom but your teacher makes you bring a piece of wood or a CD? Those are hall passes. Last year, all classrooms had uniform red hall passes, but some have been destroyed. Recently, some teachers have been using “abstract” hall passes, such as a plastic cone, which seems to be enjoyed by the students.

A new issue is that kids have been losing hall passes and damaging them. Ms. Sherry Perry, a fifth-grade teacher, suggested a punishment for the people defacing the passes as a potential after-school detention.

“Any kid that gets caught breaking any kind of school property will go through the chain of discipline,” said Dr Amanda Whitworth.” When these hall passes get lost or broken, the teachers have to buy a new thing for a hall pass or have the students make a new one.. The school made planners as our hall passes this year to make kids write down when they leave a class. 

Though this may sound good on paper, it hasn’t worked in class. This can be problematic for multiple reasons, such as kids forgetting their planners, different grades having different-sized planners, and putting your entry on the wrong day. 

“It’s unsanitary to bring the planners into the bathrooms,” Chase Andrews, an eighth grader, said. This is a commonly agreed-upon opinion as planners are always in your classes, and having them in a bathroom can put germs and bacteria on them. This is especially bad because they are used in all classes.