The Eagle Times

As you all well know, sleeping in class is a pastime at this school. Over the years the faculty and administration has made more strict rules regarding this. Still, students sleep in class. There are students that know they will get in trouble for sleeping in class, and go to sleep any way. The problem with this is when students go to sleep they miss out on class. Common sense will tell you that if you sleep through a lesson, you will not learn it. Some students (mostly gifted students) can on the other hand pull this off. Even though they can teach themselves, it is still more effort that you would have to pull through. The aggravation of that faculty and staff comes from the student’s grade. Generally a student will sleep during class. They will not learn the lesson. They score poorly on the test. Their grade will go down. The parents call the school.

Most students won’t admit that the decline in their grade is their “drowsiness” during class. They will blame it on the teacher. I guess that it is our human nature to point the finger of blame rather than blame yourself for your own misconduct. That still doesn’t make it right though. Some students blame that the teachers give them homework or the test are too hard therefore they have to stay up late and study. A simple solution to this problem would be to not sleep in class, learn the lesson being taught, and the student would not have to stay up all night trying to figure out the home work or the material at that. “The classes are boring”, some will say. I will even admit that yes, they are boring. The thing is at this age, this so called “maturity” level a student should be able to at least stay awake and persevere through the boredom.

To all students that actually read this, think about it. Is it really that difficult to maintain awareness of what is going on in the class? You could at least draw or play on your calculator rather than blame the teacher for your mistakes. All it takes is one student to stay awake and blow you whole case against the teacher. So give up the charade. Either take responsibility for you own faults and stop making faults accusations against your teacher or just plain stay awake. It is only seven hours a day.

By Scotty Baldwin