Senior+Privileges_evaluating+existing+project


 * Evaluating the Existing Policy**

**Goal** What is the goal of the policy? If you don’t know what it’s supposed to do, you can’t measure its success or failure. What problem or problems is this policy supposed to address? Does it address the causes or affects of the problem? The primary goal of the existing policy is to ensure the safety of the students.It also protects the school from any legal attacks or liabilities if a student who left campus was involved in an accident during school hours. This successfully protects both the school and the students, but resticts the privilages allowed to students. ** R **** IVALS ** Who supports this policy? Who opposes it? Rivals are great sources of information but make sure you double check their facts. The majority of the administration supports the policy as it stands right now. I do not know of any active rivals, but there are members of the administration (Mr. Foley and Mr. Kenyon) who would consider making any changes proposed if they were reasonable and well supported. ** A **** DVANTAGES ** What are the policy’s benefits? What is good about the policy? Will it achieve (or has it achieved) its goal? Does it protect people from harm? Does it ensure people’s liberties? This policy achives its goals, it keeps students on campus keeping them safe from accidents, at least during school hours and protects the school from any potential lawsuit due to injuries sustained during school hours. ** D **** ISADVANTAGES **   What are the policy’s costs? What is bad about the policy? Is it inefficient? Is it expensive? Does it cause harm? Does it intrude on people’s liberties? Are their potential consequences that may cause damage? This policy denies senior two thing, first a privilage that I believe that we have earned through 12 years of education and hard work and second it does not allow seniors to begin the tranistion into the "real world" where they will be expected to live up to the responsibilities given to them without someone locking them up in a building by force. In college and in career settings, they will be allowed to leave work or campus for lunch, and by not allowing them to do so now, they will not gain a sense responsibility for ones actions. ** E **** VALUATE THE ALTERNATIVES ** One alternative is to do nothing. Most serious problems have various policy proposals. Evaluate them. Look at their goals, advantages, and disadvantages (i.e. complete a version of this sheet for each alternative). __Do Nothing__- Nothing will change the policy and its problems will go unchecked. __One one hour lunch-__ This would allow more privilages for seniors by giving them ample time to leave, get lunch, and return to class, it would also allow for other activities such as club meetings to take place during school hours rather than after school. However there may be problems with overcrowding in the lunch room. The lunch providers and teachers union could be potential rivals to the new policy because less food would be sold and the day would have to be extended. __Three lunch system__- This would allow more privilages for seniors by giving them a bit of extra time to leave campus. It would cause a potential problem with overcrowding, and the teachers union and lunch providers may resist it because the day would have to be extended to meet the 90 min. block requirements and less food would be sold.