For the first time, Chandler Unified School District has started implementing digital hall passes, drifting away from the traditional paper passes. Throughout the past quarter, the new hall pass has been shown to benefit security, teachers, and students. 

The digital hall pass is an innovative way of ensuring that students obey the given rules. It has attributes that track where the students are coming from, and where they are expected to be. The hall pass also includes a time limit, enabling faculty to limit the amount of misused class time by sending frequent alerts to campus security.  

One issue that led to the use of the digital hall pass was that students would fail to stay in their respective buildings. However, with the new hall pass, security is able to quickly resolve this issue. As head security Robert Richardson states, “we’re able to see where you’re supposed to be and what bathroom you’re supposed to use.”

The digital hall pass has also been seen to benefit many teachers. Those of whom include Katie Cambra and Alesandra Barth.

English teacher Katie Cambra states that the digital hall pass benefits families by, “communicating data to families to let them know when their particular student has been leaving class often.” 

English teacher Alesandra Barth has opinions on the digital hall pass from two different perspectives: a mother and an educator. According to Barth, this digital hall pass has made her job, as a mother, easier. She states, “As a parent, myself, I like that I’ll be able just to see what my own children are doing at school. If they’re abusing the bathroom privileges and whatnot.”

As seen in Cambra and Barth’s interview, the digital hall pass can not only benefit the security and staff, but it can also benefit parents and guardians. Even though the implementation of the digital hall pass is a big change within the school, students are expected to be able to adapt to this change very easily.