No matter what kind of student anyone is, the hard worker, the slacker or right in the middle — everyone has either witnessed or engaged in hallway wandering; the growing epidemic at LHS.
LHS is home to a successful football program, abundant academic prodigies, skilled teachers and most importantly, a building with a rich history, spanning 60 truly awe-inspiring years. Even so, something ravages the student population. Something that every student seems to partake in lingers beneath the nose of teachers. A vice that drops GPAs and destroys attendance rates. Hallway wandering.
Students may indulge in this activity for many reasons. There is always the possibility that a substitute teacher is present and the class engagement rate falls as a result. Students may leave class to wander out of sheer boredom.It could also be that the class is getting too difficult and out of frustration students leave to grab a breath of fresh air before going back to the warzone of a class they are lost in. Whatever the reason is, no matter how logical their retreat from class may seem, it is slowly eating away at their GPA whether it be directly or indirectly. The sad truth is, no matter how bored anyone may get or how difficult class is that day, the key to an A in class is to simply stay put.
“I really think it does affect [my friend’s] learning abilities considering his GPA,” said an anonymous source.
The sheer amount of time spent meandering throughout the intricate hallways of LHS can reach upwards of an hour per day, or in other words, more than an entire period could be spent by students simply wandering aimlessly. This statistic holds true regardless of class, even among the newest attendees of LHS, the freshmen.
“I can say probably per day, it’s about 30 minutes of class time,” said a class of 2027 anonymous source.
Teachers have strong opinions on this topic and are known to attempt to crack down on the scale of the wandering cases with various methods. Some may simply deny permission to use the bathroom, setting timers for how long the student may be gone, or they may even let them do it until they end up in the office of one of the LHS administrators. Teachers have strived for a change in this bad habit of LHS students for years, and they are finally, once and for all, completely fed up.
Policies regarding students staying in their classrooms are only becoming stricter as hallway wandering addiction ravages the LHS pupils. Privileges are lost the more that this becomes an issue, an example being this school year’s new rule of having to stay in their classroom during Ad Room. Students who love to wander the halls continue to find ways despite the trials and tribulations that they must now endure to achieve their goal of missing a little bit of class. With administrators becoming stringent and students only becoming slicker, the only question that comes to mind is “Will this epidemic ever cease to exist?”.
