In light of recent events with misbehavior in Waltham High school, the school announced a cultural reset assembly to discuss the current issue of students misbehaving in school. There was an online meeting, in which they reviewed the school rules and guidelines, and stated that the halls should be monitored more. We went to ask the students of Waltham High what they thought about this Cultural Reset.

When asking the students we found, they all thought that this meeting was well intentioned. Everyone seemed to understand that the school was trying to help, but the people who they were targeting were not the problem. Lots of students expressed claims that they felt like the school misunderstood the issue. The long lectures and scolding reprimands for students made many feel as if they were being blamed for something that they had nothing to do with in the beginning.

Many students also believed that the changes stated in the cultural reset would not be enacted, or not deeply affect the culture and behavioral problems at school. In the cultural reset, it was promised that there would be more hall monitors and hall passes would be asked for in halls, but when we interviewed many students on this, they said they did not believe this would make a major difference in behavior, or that they might never enact these changes, plus we haven’t even seen these changes being brought up inside the school.

The cultural reset is a rather controversial subject in the school right now, but we cannot know what its final effect will be until it fully comes to pass. We will just have to wait for the school’s changes to fully come into effect.