With the pandemic introducing online learning, new teachers and schedule changes such as Power Lunch and Tribe Time, Holt has gained a plethora of new changes. However, one of these changes has recently been removed.

E-Hallpass was a new concept introduced to Holt in the 2022-2023 school year, allowing students, teachers and faculty to create passes digitally, eliminating the use of paper passes and allowing teachers and faculty an easier method of keeping track of where students are.

However, after just one year of the system, the Wentzville School District voted to not renew the contract for E-Hallpass, thus ending a short-lived era of digital passes at Holt. So what’s going to be the expectation going back to paper passes?

“We are going to be using paper passes going forward,” Holt Principal Dr. Shane Schlueter said. “Students can not be in the halls without having a pass and they will have to ask their teachers … hence their option to even allow a student to leave the classroom they will have to write a handwritten pass.” 

Student responses were mixed at the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year with the introduction of the new system, but what is it like now for this system to suddenly be removed?

“I honestly don’t really mind the removal of E-Hallpasses. But, I only find it a bit annoying that we had to learn how to use it for an entire year last year to not use it anymore,” said Sky Lindstrom (‘24).

“I do not like it because I feel like it’s very inconvenient now to go to the bathroom and a teacher has to write you a pass. It also messes up the Tribe Time schedule,” said Ava Ruble (‘24).

For more information on how hall passes will be issued from now on, make sure you ask your teachers as systems will differ from class to class.