Hall monitors are not familiar to most high school students. But this year, with the request of Principal Melvin Echard, hall monitors are going to become a part of this campus.
“We hope to have them start after Spring Break. They will be full-time employees,” Echard said. “They will have access to monitor cameras and respond quickly to teachers needing assistance in the classroom.”
According to Echard, there will be two hall monitors who will mostly be in the Rough Rider building, Monday through Friday, but will occasionally be monitoring in the other buildings as well.
“It will help a lot, so no one will be in the hallway anymore,” Chinese teacher Xueling Xu said.
Echard, administration and teachers are hoping for disruption in hallways will decrease, as well as tardies, and an increase of the amount of students in class on time.
“I think it’d be good [to have hall monitors]. We want students in class to be learning,” Math teacher Jeremy Loukas said. “They will help students get to class faster and not be distracted while getting to class.”
The two hall monitors will be around on campus for the rest of the year, and for every school year that passes.
“It could go good because they’d [hall monitors] will get people out of the hallways and can go tell the A.P. and the cameras won’t be the only thing for watching students in the hall,” Junior Devin Sanchez said.
However, some students don’t agree with the idea.
“If students don’t listen to teachers, then why would they listen to hall monitors?” DATA sophomore Nick Noble said. “It wouldn’t be much of a difference.”
The idea of having hall monitors is only to help students and their education and attendance. Judson ISD and East Central ISD already have hall monitors on secondary campuses. According to Echard, this campus is the only campus in the NEISD district to request hall monitors.
“They will be positive adults that will be on our campus to assist and encourage our students,” Echard said. “They will help supervise the student population, assist administration monitoring the building and student movements throughout the day.”
