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11.	Drawing on Braun et al. (2011), what, in your opinion, are the contextual factors that stand out as being most relevant to the enactment of this policy? Explain.

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11.	Drawing on Braun et al. (2011), what, in your opinion, are the contextual factors that stand out as being most relevant to the enactment of this policy? Explain.

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The two contextual factors that stick out to me are Professional and Material. For Professional, minimizing tardiness was a high value held by the principal, and she was able to get enough teacher commitment to enforce Tardy Sweep. Substitute teachers were not always aware of how Tardy Sweep worked, but that was the rare exception. For Material, every classroom had a teacher and a door, so this was a cheap policy to implement. I am not sure if extra “bathroom keys” were made or if teachers possessed key copies prior to Tardy Sweep’s founding. However, staffing only one faculty member to write tardy passes was a major flaw of Tardy Sweep considering how much class time could be missed by students.

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9.	What is the role of these artifacts and the idea of “play”/performance? (This refers to the idea that “policy is performance,” that is, we are all performing and policy means going through the motions.)

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9.	What is the role of these artifacts and the idea of “play”/performance? (This refers to the idea that “policy is performance,” that is, we are all performing and policy means going through the motions.)

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The signs in the hallways directing students to the Tardy Sweep Office confirmed Tardy Sweep’s status as a policy “here to stay”. The locked doors established a separation between guilty students and those who complied with the policy.

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8.	Are there artifacts around your school/work related to the policy? Examples? 

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8.	Are there artifacts around your school/work related to the policy? Examples? 

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Because doors had to remain locked, every teacher had to attach a classroom key to their bathroom pass. This also meant that only one student could leave the classroom at a time.

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7.	Where is the policy located if you want to consult it? In other words, where can you find/read it?

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7.	Where is the policy located if you want to consult it? In other words, where can you find/read it?

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I believe there were signs near the Tardy Sweep office. Otherwise, all teachers and faculty could explain the policy to students.

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6.	Are their consequences for not following the policy? If so, what are they?

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6.	Are their consequences for not following the policy? If so, what are they?

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In addition to the potential After School/ISS penalties, tardy students missed valuable class time while standing in line at the Tardy Sweep office. Every class period, there was one faculty member writing tardy passes for a line that could be dozens of students long. Students at the end of the line could find themselves missing up to fifteen minutes of class time. Additionally, while I do not know for certain, I believe the teachers faced a penalty if they did not lock their door when the bell rang because almost every teacher followed this policy, whether they agreed with it or not.

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5.	Who is supposed to know/monitor the policy in your school/work?

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5.	Who is supposed to know/monitor the policy in your school/work?

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All students and faculty knew what Tardy Sweep was. Teachers, and sometimes administrators, monitored the hallways as the bell rang, and I assume that administrators also monitored tardiness over time to see if the policy was effective.

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4.	Do you know the actual policy (in terms of what it says, its specific language, etc.)?  Why/why not?

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4.	Do you know the actual policy (in terms of what it says, its specific language, etc.)?  Why/why not?

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I do not recall students being given a formal written rule, but everyone knew what Tardy Sweep was. Students were made aware by administrators and teachers how Tardy Sweep works during the first week of school.

Students had five minutes in between classes and were expected to be in their next classroom before the bell rang. As soon as the bell rang to start class, all teachers were told to shut their classroom door and lock it. Any student left in the hallway had to first go to the Tardy Sweep Office before entering their classroom. The secretary at the Tardy Sweep Office would then write you a Tardy Pass that served as a student’s ticket to hand their teacher and have the classroom door unlocked. Students had 1-2 free offenses, but punishments for tardies worsened after that, quickly becoming After School and In School Suspensions.

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2.	How was this policy introduced? And/or, how have you been exposed to the policy?

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2.	How was this policy introduced? And/or, how have you been exposed to the policy?

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The policy was introduced to me during my first week of high school. Tardy Sweep was first introduced when my older sister was in high school and lasted several years through my freshman year of high school.

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3.	Who drives the policy? That is, who is responsible for its implementation in practice?

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3.	Who drives the policy? That is, who is responsible for its implementation in practice?

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Teachers were held responsible for enacting Tardy Sweep in their respective rooms. On occasion, school administrators would also roam the hallways looking for students who were late to class.

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1. Choose an example of a policy at your school/work and state the name here (or describe the policy if there isn’t a formal name for it).

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1. Choose an example of a policy at your school/work and state the name here (or describe the policy if there isn’t a formal name for it).

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TARDY SWEEP! A method for cutting down class tardiness at my high school.

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10.	What does the policy look like in implementation? Put differently, if you saw the policy in practice, what would it look like?

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10.	What does the policy look like in implementation? Put differently, if you saw the policy in practice, what would it look like?

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At its best, Tardy Sweep encourages students to be on time for class. They know that teachers shut their doors when the bell rings, and the hallways should be empty as all the doors shut at once. Those who are tardy either figure out how to show up on time or suffer further consequences, and administrators can keep log of students with continuous offenses.

However, picture this: Imagine the bell ringing, a student thirty feet from their classroom is sprinting towards the door, and the teacher, while looking at the student, slowly closes the door as the student approaches, finally shutting it as the student is inches away. One third of the way into the class period, the student returns knocking on the door, tardy pass in hand, and the teacher stops class to unlock the door and finally let the student in. This is Tardy Sweep at its absolute worst.