How Magda Streamlined Tardy Processing with Tardy Management Software

“Thank Goodness it’s Friday!” Magda Dunne let out a sigh of relief. Magda is the attendance office secretary at Eastside High School. Eastside High has about 1,800 students and has a big time tardy problem.

Every Friday afternoon, Magda and the attendance team gather for the weekly Tardy Party. The Tardy Party is the weekly meeting where the attendance team, led by Magda, counts the number of tardies each student has and assigns them to a detention, if warranted. It’s a tedious task, but necessary to control and curtail the number of students arriving late every day.

Once the tardies are totaled for each student and the lists are created, the detention consequences are assigned. Then on Monday, each tardy student is contacted by Magda and given detention information – another time-consuming and frustrating task.

So much wasted time. There has to be a better way!

This week, Assistant Principal Johnson has a surprise. He shows a demo video of the identiMetrics AutoTardy Plugin for PowerSchool. Magda can’t believe her eyes. This is how it works:

The tardy student scans their card or their finger. The tardy code is put directly into their PowerSchool record. A late pass is automatically printed. The pass also has the number of accumulated tardies along with the discipline consequences and when and where to serve it.

The entire tardy process is completed in about 2 seconds! Bonus: Magda has a list of the students and the number of tardies they each have. It’s easy to know who has detention – and who is on the verge of detention. Follow up is a breeze!

What’s the result of Assistant Principal Johnson’s surprise demo? Magda is happily NOT hosting any more Friday afternoon Tardy Parties!