![Mrs. Miller works in the guidance office. With all the many duties of her position she is working as the secretary for the guidance office. "[She] may change every period to a different class," Principal Scott Hinton said.](https://blueacemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/sub-photo-1200x869.jpg)
New hall pass system allows staff to know students whereabouts at all times
Senior Ella Kunar scans the hall pass QR code prior to leaving the room during Forensics. At the beginning of the school year, Principal Scott Hinton added a new hall pass system that requires students to fill out an online hall pass in order for them to leave classrooms.
September 27, 2022
Principal Scott Hinton added a new hall pass system that requires students to fill out an online hall pass in order for them to leave classrooms.
The hall pass allows for every person on staff to see every sign-out that occurs.
“I made the hall pass online so that the staff knows students’ whereabouts for safety reasons,” principal Scott Hinton said.
To sign out, students can go to class link on their Chromebooks or they can scan a QR code with their phone. The form requires students to write their email, last name, first name, period number, and the location they are going.
“The hall pass seems to be working well,” Hinton said. “Everyone that I have asked in the hallways says that they have filled it out.”
Although the staff is in favor of this new system, some students find the form to be a hassle.
“It takes too much time,” junior Maggie Miller said.
Students think that the hall pass would be easier to use if the questions they had to fill out were not as long and if they were not online.
“It asks too many questions,” senior Ella Kunar said. “It would be easier to just sign a paper.”
Ultimately, Hinton said the hall pass system is an easy way for staff to know where students are at all times.
“I know it’s a pain but it’s not a gotcha,” Hinton said. “It is 100 percent a safety piece.”
