Many students are getting late to class but are being counted absent for being more than five minutes late. The schools give the students five minutes to get from one class to another, but it can take more than five minutes to get from one building to another when there is traffic. Schools should not mark students absent when they’re tardy because some students would get released late in other classes and some students would skip because they know they would be counted absent either way.
One reason why the school should take the five minute absent system is because they would get released late in some other classes. There 's always an assignment that the teachers want the students to get done immediately. They 're taking time off the second