By Staff Writer, Sosseh Taimoorian

The bell signals the end of the school day for students. However, some students choose to remain on campus after school hours, prompting full-time campus security guard Joyce Briscoe to hustle students on home.
“[The patrolling is] pointless. Students still go back to where they were sitting after the security guard is gone,” Nancy Prieto (’08) said.
Prieto has  witnessed bickering between students and security guards and believes that it will inevitably continue.
“The laws are ‘stupid.’ No consequences are given to students for disobeying security guards,” Daniel Jasso (’08) said.
The administration claims that these rules are implemented to decrease the student traffic flow in front of school in order to reduce the amount of school violence. 
Briscoe said that students are to be on the sidewalk in front of school and off school grounds. If there is a minor altercation, she informs the administration to help settle the dispute. If the problem escalates, which “rarely happens,”  then the officers in the Resource Offices are contacted to take the matter into their own hands.
Prieto stated that a student on campus after school hours is not a hindrance. “We’re not really doing anything wrong. Besides, they never tell us why we can’t [be outside on school property] after hours.”