Sitting in your desk, looking at your paper, you reach for your pencil. You accidentally push if off the desk. It falls to the floor, making a noise that only your teacher can hear. “Refocus!” comes from her mouth. You are sent to another teacher’s room where you sit and think until you are “refocused.”

“Leaving blank or guessing answers, eyes not on speaker, movement, talking, interrupts verbally, feet either in the aisle or on the desk, talks to others, sings, walks up to the teacher, crumbles paper, comes without a pencil, run, stomp, dance, uses electric or wall mounted pencil sharpener, sharpen more than twice in a class period, sharpen for more than three minutes.”

These are some of the negative ways to behave in class. If you behave negatively according to these rules then refocus is the place for you.

Are we in high school or pre-school?

The freshmen class is a main reason why teachers have made up these rules. However, a Spanish III class with only upperclassmen has to follow these rules also.

“These rules are childish and kind of ridiculous, time shouldn’t be spent trying to make us miserable in class,” Kelly Blaiss junior says.

Teachers make rules to create a good work environment so students can stay on task and get their work done; however, when rules are set to where a student can’t cough without getting in trouble, they were made to be broken.

“I think they have good intentions, but they can’t expect people to think they aren’t ridiculous, no sharpening your pencil for more than three minutes?! What kind of rule is that?” Brooke Chambers junior says.

When teachers make rules, they hope the students will follow them, in this case, the teachers are asking for rule breakers.