The best Ringtone for school - teacher can NOT hear!

Poseur
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:43:38 +0000

Sleep is a different story entirely. I literally cannot prevent myself from falling asleep in class. Some of my (high school) teachers have acknowledged it, but they understand that it’s nothing personal – I’m just always really tired. But yeah, purposely putting your head down like “yo I’m too good to listen to you; sleep would be a more productive use of my time~” is pretty rude.

Texting, going on AIM, and playing games in class are disrespectful to an extent, but the impression I’ve gotten from most college professors with whom I’ve had experience (two classes at UDel, one at Brown) is that they see such things as the student’s loss. Like, “I don’t care if you do this, but if you don’t learn the material because you’re not paying attention, that’s your problem.” I mean, this is as opposed to “OH MY GOD YOU CHILDREN ARE SO DISRESPECTFUL I’M SO OFFENDED I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS.”

Of course, every teacher’s attitude differs. And yes, I’m not arguing that they have the right to kick out students who are being rude. I just think that if the teacher is like “Hey, do what you want; it’s your loss,” there’s no reason not to screw around in class if you are able to do so and still learn the material… and the teacher doesn’t care.

Sometimes such things are actually beneficial to learning. Last year, I went through a period where I couldn’t stay awake, as hard as I tried, in a few of my classes. Then, one of my friends got a new texting plan and we texted all the time during school for a week or two. Miraculously, I was able to stay awake and actually learn more! :] I’ve used that strategy a few times since realizing that it works so well.