Drifting through the halls of Searcy High School there’s a new policy.

The policy states that if a student is slacking in a specific subject that teachers are to call parents.

“I do believe that teachers and parents are in this together as far as to benefit the kid,” Jill Treadway, social studies teacher said. “It is our job to help them succeed.”

While some students that heard about this new avenue:

“New policy? Oh yeah, I know about it. Mrs. Treadway informs us about that all the time,” said Josh Bell.

Others haven’t got a clue.

“They call your parents!?”  sophomore Da’ Shawn Blakley said.

For those who actually try on their grades, this won’t affect them at all.

“The ones that aren’t responsible and don’t stay up on there work and study for their tests are going to be the ones that are struggling,” Coach Bryant Turney said.

But the parents of students with grades below 70 will get a call.

“I can’t help it that I can’t keep my grades up, I’m trying,”  Tyler Lenhart said. “I really am, but they just keep calling my parents and then they get on to me.  Now I have to stay after school for tutoring so I don’t know what I’m going to dowith my life right now.”

All in all the teachers think this new policy is going to be a success.

“In a way it’s very good to let the parents know as soon as something goes wrong, that the student isn’t turning in work,” Turney said. “We realize that students don’t go home and tell there parents much of anything especially when there not doing well in school.”