Locking Out Tardy Students No Answer

Our readers wrote letters throughout 1992, expressing their viewpoints on a variety of issues. Here are condensed versions of some of those letters to help us remember the events that mattered to Orange County readers this past year. We would like to thank the readers who took the time to share their views, and we look forward to hearing from them and others in 1992.

Locking students out of classrooms as a cure for tardiness? How desperate, how uninspired, how adversarial and punitive. If the classroom is promoting quality, students want to be there. Discipline, truancy and tardiness are non-issues in schools following the Quality School principles. Locking out students will further their hostility and alienation and probably increase dropout rates.

PAMELA S. OSBORN

Huntington Beach