Op-Ed

In response to Kim Caywood’s ‘Unfair rules in the New School’
It is quite exciting to move into a new school. And yes there are certain things that we could live with being changed, but the new rules aren’t necessarily one of them. Though I understand the annoyance with many of the new rules, they really aren’t unreasonable. And some people do agree with and follow them. First off, the food and drink rule isn’t that bad, and isn’t hard to follow. After all is it unfair for our principle to want to keep the school clean? Though I understand that us kids get hungry during the day, we can still keep the food out of the classrooms. There is a commons area where we can eat. Store a snack in the fridge and arrange times that you can eat them. I’m sure you can work out with some teachers to go to the commons, eat a snack real quick and go back to your class. And if you need a snack for after school you can do the same thing. Store a snack in the commons fridge and eat it real quick after school. As for the drinks, anything but water can also be easily stored in the commons area and consumed during lunch or other times in the commons area. If you need a drink during class there are water fountains and teachers do allow you to go get a drink. Although on the point of water, I do believe the rules could be modified. Now to the coat rule. Is a hoodie that different than a coat? If you get a good hoodie it can keep you just as warm as any coat. And if one hoodie doesn’t do it bring two, layer up! Besides why is it so important to wear a coat or leather man rather than a hoodie? The hallway rule is also very reasonable. During the lunch hour all we’re going to do is go down and eat lunch. Then we sit around a visit for a while till the next bell. What do we need to get out of our lockers during this time? If you brought a sack lunch you should get it at the beginning of lunch. And anything else you either really don’t need or you can get on your way to lunch. There’s nothing that important in our lockers that we need to be able to access them during the half hour of lunch. Overall these new rules really aren’t that hard to follow and shouldn’t be that much of a problem. As for regaining the peace between students and teachers, is there supposed to be a peace? After all they are our teacher and authorities, not our friends. And the exact reason you stated is why they haven’t given our freedoms back. ‘Students still bring water and food into classrooms, and still war their coats’. Which means we’re disobeying the rules. Should we be rewarded for disobedience by getting our freedoms back?