Of blasphemy and car accidents

Disrespect: a behavior study

Junior or senior year is about the time when we see kids getting their licenses. Perhaps it's an exciting time, especially for those who have no other source of freedom, for those who want to go use illicit substances and destroy themselves, or for those who simply lack self-control. We see many seniors who walk around the school, the mall, and the hood with their two-foot long key "chain" hanging out of their pocket, as for whatever reason that's the cool thing to do. What has high school society come to? Pure disarray, pure superficiality, perhaps pure incompetence. I look at kids who somehow have managed to get their license despite not being able to write a grammatically correct sentence. Now that is scary!

Within the same domain is the terribly disrespectful behavior we see every day. One of the most prominent of these behaviors roots from smartphones. I become perpetually infuriated by the children who feel the need to text in the hallway while walking. Why? Can not you wait for 30 seconds until there's a place where you won't be in anyone's way? This disrespect is nasty, and kids who partake in it simply belittle themselves into small, useless blobs of nothingness.

Chances are that this girl's been hit by a car by this point. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120525065444-texting-while-walking-story-top.jpg

While this sign has a marvelous purpose, most people who it applies to are most likely too foolish to even read it.
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Learning to idiocy

In high schools where wealthy incompetent students feel a sort of social elevation, like in Niskayuna, this disrespect grows. I have stopped going to the media center this year as it is simply too loud to do anything! Kids throw stuff across the room, they scream at each other, they set fire to books, and they even seem to have fashion shows of sorts. As I've said so many times, it's disgusting. I'm a full supporter of a one strike system. But then, you ask, how do you enforce that? The answer is not in excessive paper slips signed by teachers. Doesn't the school have a comprehensive database of student identifications? And plenty of computer processing abilities? Yes. Simply require a student ID to get into the library, then after the one strike banishment, their database ID will be tagged so they can no longer enter. It's simple, better for the environment, easier for the respectful and properly behaved students, and less of a hassle for teachers. My question is, has anyone thought of this?

We might as well just have this...
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As I sit in the Mac Lab now, kids are shouting and arguing blasphemously across the room. If a similar system were set up in the computer labs (because we do know that many the kids who can't get into the library will flee to the computer lab to talk), the fools would be confined to the social areas where foolish behavior is actually accepted, and the school would be an overall better place. People have every right to be obnoxious, but only if they can appropriately control it! And most kids can't. But what valid administrator cares what I have to say about their inefficient policy?

This is what a library should look like, and what most school and public libraries do look like!
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I'm pretty sure a motorcycle gang would behave better in a library than these high school students.
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