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Sean lambrick

Pace gardner

Drippy chungus

29 april 2021

Bullying? Not a problem

Dear Brighton Administration

Ever since the coronavirus impacted schools around the globe students have found it hard

to focus on their studies when the possibility of them or their friends could get the virus at

anytime over their heads, and with the lack of space to properly social distance themselves from

everyone else really makes things a hassle to get any learning done. Not only that but some

students have also been wearing their masks incorrectly whether it’s intentional or not someone

has to enforce the rules to prevent anyone else from contracting the highly infectious airborne

virus.

The problems underlying the entire school can however be solved by doing one simple

thing. The answer to these problems is to introduce hall monitors into the school to enforce all

the rules no one has the time to do. Take the incorrect ways students wear their masks for

example with a single sentence a hall monitor can establish their authority to the students by

telling them to wear their masks under nose and chin to assure that everyone wears them

correctly to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Even if it only stop one student from getting

the virus it’ll be worth it in the long run because unknowingly a single student could pass it onto

other students who’ll probably spread the virus to others and so on until an entire class or even
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the whole school is forced to go into quarantine for a second time, and i don’t know about you

but a survey found that the majority of students would rather go to in school learning rather than

online learning.

I know most students have been vaccinated and are about to get their 2nd dose of the

vaccine but i still think we should still gather hall monitors to do other things that’ll prevent

bullying, vaping, school attendance, etc. a study found on the web has found that schools with

hall monitors have reduced cases of bullying and higher student attendance opposed to other

schools that don’t have hall monitors. We’re one of the top schools in the area already without

hall monitors but we can improve ourselves no matter what level we’re on compared to others,

so why not try to improve on school attendance by adding hall monitors to help achieve that

goal?

Now I know what you're thinking: “I’m just a highschool student. I don't know what i’m

talking about.” Well I know a couple people who do know what they’re talking about. A teacher

and a school counselor: they’ve both had experience in not just highschool and college, but they

have also studied what makes a good school and a good learning environment to teach in and

when they were asked if they had hall monitors in their highschool years both of them said yes,

and as a follow up question they were asked if they noticed a reduction of bullying they also both

said yes. So with everything in mind with multiple studies and even teachers agreeing to add hall

monitors to help enforce hallway guidelines. Surely adding them into brighton high will help

with student attendance, reduce bullying, preventing the spread of the coronavirus and more.
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Works cited:

Jones, James, B “Hall monitor duties”. Career Trend 05 July 2017

Lambrick, Sean M. “What students think of their safety”. Google docs 20 april 2021

Lambrick, Sean. How hall monitors can help students. Sandy, Utah: Brighton high school

19 april 2021. Web