With the year winding down and everyone counting down to those much awaited last few days of school, people seem to be thinking that the school rules no longer have any sort of perpetual meaning. Just as much as anyone else, I am highly anticipating my last day here, but unlike most of my peers, I still realize that our school’s rules are not just simple suggestions.
A major example would be some of our students’ inability to dress appropriately when getting ready to go to school in the morning. I cannot believe the amount of insanely short shorts I have seen some people wearing, like beachwear length and even shorter than that. Oddly enough, it is not just girls who are doing this either, I have seen some boys with this problem as well. Do not get me wrong, I am as ready for summer as everyone else, but that does not mean I come to school in beach clothes just to pretend I am getting a tan from the fluorescent lights like everyone else seems to do. Also, do not even let me get started on the amount of students wearing clothes (or lack there of) that show more of their skin than the actual cloth material. Not to mention, I cannot seem to walk down the hallways without hearing a teacher or administrator shout to a student about taking of his or her hat. We are not allowed to wear hats inside, so why would any of my fellow students bring them to school in the first place if they know the hat will just end up in Mr. Baggett’s office before the day ends? Our school is one of the few schools that does not have uniforms, but if all of my fellow students keep pushing their limits by breaking the dress code so much, we might be in uniforms before we know it. (Not that it matters to me at this point, I will be graduated before that comes around.)
One of the biggest complaints students seem to have lately is that their cell phones keep getting taken up from them. I have yet to have that problem, but that might have something to do with the fact that I do not sit in my desk with my cell phone three inches in front of my face right in front of an assistant principal. I have seen quite a few of my fellow students do that, and then make a big scene when they lose their phone, as if they never knew the rule existed before. Well, I have a newsflash for everyone. I can still remember my first day as a freshman, and I was told all about the cell phone policy here, so it is not as if we have never heard what the rules were before.
Lately I have also noticed that the famous “Tardy Party” line is much longer. Now, I can understand some students arriving late to their first class because of oversleeping, car troubles, or saving orphans from burning buildings and such, but after a while, one would think they would learn how to get to school on time. However, it does not happen to just be the “Tardy Party” line for first block, every block seems to have quite a lot of “Tardy Party” members. Getting to one’s first class is one thing, but if a student is arriving late to his or her second class of the day, they are obviously not in a very big rush to get to that class, because it does not take long to get from one side of this campus to the other. Back when I was a freshman, I had P.E. during my first block all the way in the gymnasium. After that, I had World Geography all the way in the front of the North Building, and I was never late to class even once, so it can be done.
Our school has a lot of freedoms that most schools around here do not have, and yet students completely take advantage of those privileges as if they can never be taken away. Well, my advice to everyone out there is to start following the rules, unless of course everyone wants to have extremely strict rules placed instead.