9/19 7:13 pm

 (ABC 4 News)

SALT LAKE CITY - Beginning Monday East High School Students will be charged $5 for being late to class. If the students are late and do not want to pay the fee they have the option of attending 30 minutes of after school detention. 

It is up to the discretion of the teachers to determine whether or not the student is tardy or truant.  If a student is late but has a good excuse they will be marked as tardy.  If they are extremely late with no excuse the teacher will mark them truant, and they will have to pay the fine or go to detention.   

"What I have notices as an administrator is students aren't lingering anymore in the hallways," said  Principle Paul Sagers, "They aren't stopping and talking, there's not enough time. They just want to get to class."

School officials say the money raised will go towards paying the teacher who has to stay after school and run the detention.

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