Tardiness

“Lateness” can be defined as the “situation where an individual arrives after the proper, scheduled or usual time (as defined by Oxford Advance Learners’ Dictionary, 5th ed., 1995), it is tantamount to “tardiness” which is defined to be being slow to act or respond. Lateness or tardiness can be attributed to a lot of factors or causes, the distance between the student’s home and school or solely the school’s location considered as a possible cause for tardiness. Going late to bed and waking up late next morning are the most common. Tardiness is not just the problem of the late student but it affects the surrounding people as well. A student coming late in class distracts the rest of the students and disrupts the flow of the teacher’s discussion, it is even a burden to his/her classmate/s whom the late students ask for what to catch up with.