editorial

Tanner Tippets
April 9, 2009
Editorial
Ever since we have moved into the new school we have had many stupid new rules. They say that the rules are supposed to protect us but I think that we would be equally safe without them. Some of the rules are that we are not allowed to wear our coats in the school. I realized that the school is climate control but that means nothing to me. That’s like me saying that my brand of tires don’t have death spikes. Yes it sounds cool but it has no purpose. They tell us that we can not wear our coats because we could be hiding a gun. If I was packing heat I wouldn’t need a coat to hide it. I would tote it around in my pants or something. When it is 12 degrees outside the night before school and they turn the heaters on at 7:00a.m., thinking that it is automatically 70 degrees in the school it tends to be cold for the fist 6 classes.
Another rule is that we can not wear our hats. The hats pose no threat. Nobody is hiding crack in their hats and if they were its not like they can pull it out in school anyway. I realize that it is a symbol of gang violence…but that is in Detroit. We are in Dayton Wyoming, nobody is in a gang. What emotion or body part does it hurt Mr. White or the school board to let us wear hats?
The rule that pisses me off more than anything is that we are not allowed to have water in class. I understand, and can even cope with not having pop or Gatorade, but water will not hurt the carpet in any way. Some of the athletes need water to be able to function correctly. Without the water we can not perform as well. Aside from not being able to have water in class, we should at least be able to hold it in our locker along with food. They know damn well that they don't give us very much to eat at lunch. They shouldl at least allow us to keep a snack or a bottle of water in out locker.
The last rule that i'm going to talk about is the rule saying that we are not allowed to leave the lunch area during lunch. I don't want to sit and marinate in the odious aroma of that days lunch. At least they can give us seconds if we have to sit in the lunch rjoom for 30 minutes.
Some of the rules of the new school are very questionable. We are not allowed to wear our coats thus freezing us to death for the first four periods, we should be able to wear our hats because they are harmless. If anything we should be able to at least have water in class rooms. We should be able to leave the lunch room too so we can chill out for the little bit of time we have. These are the rules that we have to follow but shouldn't.