Importance Of Tardiness In School

Tick, tock. The hands on the clock move slowly as I sit in my car, impatiently drumming my fingers against the seat. I scroll through Spotify on my phone and try to find an appropriate playlist to help ease this early Tuesday morning drowsiness. It is already 9 a.m. and the chances of making it to my 9:30 class are looking dull, what with me still stuck on EDSA and my school being all the way in Katipunan. I immediately turn to open the Waze app and check for alternate routes, but all say the same thing: 51 minutes to Ateneo. 43. 40. It becomes apparent that I never will make it on time, so I decide to just sit through the ordeal and try to enter class as inconspicuously as possible later on. 9:45 a.m. I am already 15 minutes late and I sneakily walk through the back door of the classroom. Or at least, I thought it was sneaky enough. Most of my classmates stare at me as I walk in and, sliding into my seat, my seatmate whispers “You’re late… Again.” Yes, it was my second instance of tardiness within the week. Leaving Makati early is useless. It is still such a challenge to make it to school on time due to the heavy build-up of cars and various vehicles: Traffic. In 2015, the GPS-navigating app Waze conducted a global evaluation which named Metro Manila as the place with “the worst traffic on earth.” The government has been trying for years to attend to this ever-worsening problem. Sen. Migz Zubiri spoke about the issue in a Rotary Club of Manila meeting, saying that the