In Your Opinion: FHS Students Should Be Treated With Respect

By Ariel Kaye.

Over the past three years as a student at Franklin High School I have never dreaded school as much as I did these past two days. I was so excited for one of the most memorable days of this year – the first day of my senior year. On the first day, instead of being greeted with a warm welcome, I was immediately yelled at to put my phone away. At this time it was about 7:20 AM, which means that school had not even STARTED yet and I was being yelled at. Already, before I had even stepped foot into my first class, I was not very happy. It was mind-boggling to me that on the first day of school the administrators were so concerned with cracking down on the rules that they could not even welcome us back.

Once the Events Lobby started to become crowded as more people arrived, all of the Seniors and Freshman were crowded into the lunch room where we stood for about 10 minutes until we were released. School starts at 7:27 a.m. and my class did not even BEGIN until 7:45 a.m. (on the first day). Due to Mrs. Clark’s “solution” to minimize traffic, valuable time was taken away from the classroom by trying to release everybody at different times. On the second day of school all of the seniors were ushered into the gym and forced to sit on the bleachers until 7:35 a.m. when we were released. My class did not begin until 7:45 a.m.. Since this new rule has been applied to school I have lost about 20 minutes of my education EACH DAY. I find it absolutely insane to think that this is okay with Mrs. Clark but it obviously is because she’s allowing it to happen. I think that it’s a pretty obvious issue that we are being “allowed” to go to our classes AFTER SCHOOL STARTS.