Roaming students in halls distract from learning

Roaming students have been making a significant amount of noise playing around in the hallways while classes are going on. The students are most disruptive during fourth, fifth and sixth periods, the lunch periods. They make so much noise that they distract students in classes and sometimes disrupt the teachers, causing them to stop a lesson and go into the hallway to stop and scold the students for playing around and being disruptive in the halls.

Some of the students even enter a classroom during a lesson. They distract the students by talking to them and the students may even have conversations with the teacher, halting them from the lesson being taught. This takes away time and attention from the students that are in classes. The instruction time is valuable for their high school careers, which is now being wasted by distractions. A minute or two of instruction can add up to hours being wasted over a period of time.

Students should just stick to their classroom, even if the class is a study hall. When a student has lunch, he or she should stick to the multipurpose room or outside, and not roam the halls between classes for the prosperity of all students’ education. There should be a more consistent presence of hall monitors directing the students wandering the halls back to where they need to be.

The behaviour becomes worse as the end of the year approaches. The students have the mentality that the school year is almost over and that classes are not as important from when school starts to the middle of the year. They are more comfortable in the school because they have been the halls longer and know the other students better.