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New D-Hall Policy Goes into Effect

A new school year marks the start of many things. New students, new teachers, new schools, and this year, a new policy regarding D-hall. Under the new and more stringent rules, if you are given a D-hall, you must also pay a $20 fine in addition to going to detention on Saturday.  Administrators are hoping to reduce the amount of students who get detentions. Some students however, feel the new approach is unfair.

“I feel like our students shouldn’t have to pay the fine because we are already having to go to detention on a Saturday and there are some families that cannot afford to waste $20 because their child got a detention,”  Sheena Hale ‘17 said.

It was also pointed out that enforcing such a rule would make students unwilling to comply to such new standards by being missing in action.

“If you make people pay money for getting a detention, I think they are just not going to show up on Saturday for detention at all,” Piper Davis ‘17 said. There were some people who didn’t think that the new rule will be that bad and the $20 fine could actually serve its intended purpose. They thought a compromise could be met, balancing both the students’ and the schools’ wishes.

“I think that paying the $20 fine should only be applied if the student did something really bad like getting into a fight,” Simran Dholasania ‘15 said.

Whether or not the new policy will serve its purpose is still to be determined. One thing is obvious though, the best way to avoid the fine and detention is to not get one at all.

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Ishani Pandya, Heritage Editor in Chief
Hey! I’m Ishani and I’m an associate editor for the Westwood High School yearbook. I’ve been on Westwood Student Press for 2 years now and love it! When I’m not in the newsroom, I’m either dancing or at a Longhorn football game. And if you ever want to bribe me, buy me sweet potato fries from Kerbey Lane or give me some chocolate. Also don’t ever give me cantaloupe because I hate it and then I will hate you.

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