Speech

Kyle Leangpun
12/6/13
Today I want to share my feelings towards the new Grayson high school hall passes. The lanyards that the administrators at Grayson have provided us are our excuses for releasing the students to travel in the hall. The lanyards are unsanitary, they are inconvenient, and they are not reliable. Like the antiquated system of hall passes, the lanyards are ineffective, and they need to change. Do you honestly believe that every single student who uses the lanyards for the restroom washes his or her hands after using the facility? Personally, every time I use the facility I see students leave it without cleansing their hands. These lanyards are used daily; thus, it is extremely unsanitary. Using these lanyards can contribute heavily to the spread of malicious diseases. Diseases cause students to become sick and unable to attend school. When students are unable to attend school, they fall behind on work and are even further hindered in the academic career. That truly breaks my heart to see any student failing in their academics because of such a silly policy.
The lanyards are not only disastrously unsanitary, but they are also horribly inconvenient.
They are primarily inconvenient for the school’s staff members because if the administration were to release new colors of the lanyards at various periods of times, they would cause more work for something that shouldn’t be a problem. The passes provide an inconvenience for the students because the old hall passes, agenda books, are no longer in use. Most students used the agenda book primarily as a hall pass, therefore phasing out their use as one encourages their use.

This leads to an inconvenient and practically forced disorganization of the students’ schedule because of this incredibly thoughtless policy. Another untimeliness the lanyards offer for teachers and students is a new rule instituted by the administration. Due to this new rule, students must have a signed paper from the issuing teacher allowing them to go to said teacher’s class during their advisement. This provides a terrible onus on both teachers and students. This forces both parties to prepare well in advance for such a casual, but important matter. Truly, the only practical, but flawed, use of the lanyards is to use the restroom, while their predecessor, the agenda book, could be used for almost any task.
Furthermore, the lanyards are unreliable. Like the agenda books, students are able to go anywhere within the school as long as they have a lanyard. Students take advantage of this constantly. By going A­wall, the young adults at Grayson will soon lack in grades. Also the administration would have to give suspensions to such students who take great advantage of the lanyards, and with that being said time and valuable education will be wasted. The lanyards were placed to help prevent A­wall and they lack to do this.
As a student at Grayson high school I say do away with the lanyards and come up with something that allows students to travel the halls that isn’t touched by so many others, something that doesn’t need to be replaced every month in fear of students making a replica of it.
Something that permits students to only need one kind of pass that can be used for myriad of tasks such as, using the restrooms, going to the office, and even going to another class for specific reasons, and finally something that prevents students from going A­wall. By replacing the lanyards I believe that Grayson will become a better school, students will get a better

education, and there will be less wondering around the school.