After each period begins, students who are in the hallways are rounded up and taken to a holding area. Names are recorded. Parents will be called. In some cases, students meet with counselors. Collins is also asking teachers to confiscate hats and earrings worn by boys.
Students can retrieve such items at the end of the school year.
At present, Collins does not have a policy for detention or in-school suspension. But both are needed, says Maloy. First, she has to find staff to oversee two holding areas, one for students who are serving detention or awaiting suspension, and another for students who are late for class or loitering in the halls. Maloy and Sutton review a master list of staff schedules, looking for anyone with a free period. They find enough to cover eight periods.