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Students and parents push back on SmartPass automated hall‑pass system over bathroom access, privacy and disability handling
Summary
Students at Hopewell Valley Central High School and parents told the board the new SmartPass system is cumbersome and blocks bathroom access, and parents said the system fails to accommodate medical needs such as inflammatory bowel disease. The superintendent said teachers can override passes and the district will keep adjusting the rollout.
Students, parents and board members raised concerns about SmartPass, the district’s new automated hall‑pass system, citing long waits to use restrooms, privacy worries and challenges for students with medical needs.
A student speaker said the system requires users to log into a device, join a queue and wait — sometimes preventing a student from obtaining a bathroom pass for 40 minutes after creating a previous pass. “It makes it difficult and frustrating…
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