From My Perspective – Nelson Bontrager

November 24, 2009 • Nelson Bontrager, Cartoonist  
Filed under Opinion

You get to school late on a Monday morning. It’s cold outside and all you can think about is getting inside, so you try the door, but it’s locked! You try all of the doors and you realize they’re all locked. The only way to get in is to “buzz in” at the door, by pressing a button that sends a signal to the office showing you at the door.

That’s what is happening to students, now that the new security system has been installed. The students who ride the bus get to school a little later, so they have to deal with this problem quite often, while students who drive get to school earlier so they don’t have to deal with this problem. I am a student who rides the bus occasionally, and I have had to deal with it a couple times before.

Open lunch for seniors has also contributed to the problem. When seniors go out to eat during lunch, they have to buzz in to get back inside.

The installment of the security system has changed school life for me because if I end up sleeping in, then I don’t get to school until it’s too late, then I get locked out.

There are some things that students can do to help prevent this problem, however, such as getting to sleep earlier. I do martial arts every Wednesday night, and by the time I get home, it’s 9:00 pm and I’m exhausted, and not to mention musical rehearsal every night for 3 hours, so getting to bed is not a problem for me.

But the security system also has some benefits, such as preventing intrusions.

Like Mr. Hundley once said, “If your school’s easier to get into than Wal-Mart, then you’ve got a problem.”

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