Hoover Challenger

By Challenger Staff
Staff
staff@hooverchallenger.com

EDITORIAL: Disruptions affect everyone

January 2010

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Class disruptions can come in many forms, but the most common is in the form of a student.

There’s at least one student lurking in every classroom, waiting to spring up at the most inopportune moment to cause utter disruption. He or she has no regard for the teacher they are disrespecting or even the classmates from which they are taking time away.

Certain oafs decide to challenge a teacher’s authority. They sit and argue simple instructions and create situations that often snowball into detention, a referrals or even suspension.

Other oafs decide to challenge classmates. They stir up controversy that can ultimately result in physical aggression.

And finally some oafs decide to challenge themselves by not completing their coursework or paying attention and wasting other students’ time by asking pointless questions.

To put it plainly, all of these disruptions suck.

Most students come to school to learn. Most students want to do better and strive to improve themselves. But the minority of students who are disrupting classes are putting an abrupt halt to the needs and wants of the majority of the school.

The sad part is that this smaller group of students is out voicing the majority. Teachers, administrators and counselors are forced to sit and listen to all of their arguments so they can find some means to remedy their problems.

The truth is that they don’t deserve to have a voice and they don’t deserve to have attentive teachers, administrators or counselors. Disruptive students forfeited that right the second they decided to steal the education of their entire class.

The “obedient” kids who do their work and everything that their teachers ask of them deserve twice the amount of attention as any problem student. These are the kids that deserve to have their teachers, administrators and counselor listen to them more, not the other way around.