Marlie Langer | Student Life Editor
October 22, 2024
San Clemente High School has introduced a new study hall this year, also known as Tide Time, and many students do not like it so far. Tide Time is where students sign up every Monday for any open class around the school, or teachers may schedule specific students for their class, for a 30-minute study-hall period. The school may have thought this would be good for the students, giving them more freedom and independence as they are responsible for picking classes that they need help in. Here’s the issue: many classes get full quickly and students are forced to enter classes that do not benefit them.
Junior, Kate Martin, says that she feels she “can never get into classes [she] needs help in” and ends up not getting help at all because all of her classes get filled up so quickly.
Admin or teachers may argue that the solution to this problem is to talk to the teacher and have them place you in their class if it’s full, but this ends up kicking out a student who was already in that teachers’ Tide Time, leaving that student with nowhere to go. In many cases, students aren’t even aware that they are placed out of a class and end up getting marked absent anyways, giving them a detention.
Another junior at San Clemente, Hanalei Marshall, states that “the classes are full even before scheduling on Mondays” and that it’s almost impossible to get into classes that she wants or needs to attend for Tide Time.
This new system has led to an abundance of detentions that have left students angry. If a student is absent on any Monday and forgets to schedule their tide time or are physically unable to schedule their Tide Time classes, they are given a 60 minute detention. This punishment is views as absolutely absurd among many, and especially for a completely new system that everyone, including teachers, are trying to navigate and figure out.
As a result, students across campus are starting to view Tide Time has a nuisance and they miss the old tutorial.
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