Echo and unfair punishment

These Greeks have a story for everything don't they? "Hey why do why hear our words sometimes when we yell in a cave or something?.....Hmmm... Must be... THE GODS." This tragic story of narcissim and chatter-boxing is as anticlimactic as they come in Greek mythology. Echo was a young nymph: beautiful but with a loud mouth. She was cursed by Hera, Queen of the Gods and benefactor of few, to be able to only repeat the last words of those around her after Hera had a feud with Aphrodite who happened to admire Echo. When Echo falls in love with a young lad named Narcissus who, after what probably was very comical conversation, spurns her advances. Because of the fact that Narcissus dissed Echo, whose linguistic habits probably emulated that of a serial killer, Narcissus is cursed with vanity. After seeing his reflection in a nearby pool of water, he falls head over heels for himself and becomes a flower. (Which in hindsight the Greek authors of this story were probably thinking: "how should this end? Should he die?' 'No they die too often lets make him a flower.' 'Oh that's perfect, it makes total sense.")

Unfair punishment. Well there are all kinds of oppressed peoples in the world who can testify to unfair punishment or treatment, but I have only truly struggled with our tardy policy. 3 tardies and an afterschool detention.... really?? I think the punishment for being tardy should be you miss what has been taught and have to awkwardly walk into class with everyone glaring at you. I mean what's the ideology with such strict punishments? Could it be perhaps that administration believes that this will force us to show up on time to everything? To job interviews, social events, basketball games, knitting clubs, everywhere we go onetime? The fact is we're going to be late sometimes wherever we go: we're human. The ones that care won't let it happen very often, and the one's that don't, well, it would be a gauge for the teacher about how much they care about class! A lax tardy policy is a good thing!!! A strict one makes the good students who slip up once in a while resent this school in ways that are unnecessary, and the bad ones are forcefully dragged there. And when it comes down to it, aren't we here to learn and not to just be dragged here? Stop treating us like children HCHS we're adults now and  enforcing such strict policies is not benefiting anyone's education.