BY JOHNNY MULLIGAN
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Destroying and defiling school property doesn’t make you some rebellious teen. It makes you a student who completely disregards your fellow students’ safety and a nuisance in everyone’s lives around you.
Regardless of the safe glass that the school has, students could have been seriously injured when two kids decided to chuck a rock at the window in the 900 west wing.
Just days earlier some skateboarders threw a temper tantrum and smashed a glass door because they were asked to leave the premises that they broke into. They were doing something illegal and got upset when they were asked to leave, instead of getting the police called on them, which apparently then they prompted them to do something even more illegal.
These students disregarded that they could have seriously hurt someone. Those students who smashed the window had no idea if anyone was standing below the window who could have been either impaled by falling shards of glass or hit in the head by a rock.
I appreciate some more innocent forms of vandalism.
Specifically in my math class, there is a kid who often draws superheroes on the desk in front of me. It is cool to see this kind of artwork, and he is almost like Banksy to me – fighting the establishment and inspiring classmates one drawing at a time.
It is when these drawings start taking phallic forms that it just needs to stop. Drawing such images on everything is such a middle schooler thing to do. Leave that to the professionals. Vandalism in these forms is a waste of your time, my time and everyone else’s.
Last year a hole was punched into a wall and the bathroom was shut down for a few weeks. I’m sure that was worth it. Everyone can agree that walking to the bathroom just to find it is closed would be irritating. Property damage is unacceptable and a waste of time.
Students who approach school as it being a waste of time are the reason it is a waste of time. When students come to school they should take it in stride. I hate waking up early, I hate math, I hate walking from the portables to the office but never once have I flung my poo or smashed any windows.
Accept the fact that when you were born in America, your soul was sold to the school-devil and he has you for these 12 years of your life. The sooner students accept that and go to school and make the most of their time there, they will find it isn’t as much of a waste of time. Don’t ask yourself, “when will I ever use this?” Instead, ask yourself, “I wonder when I will get to use this?”
School is free, think of the kids who wish they could be learning in school for free. Don’t take school for granted cause what is the point of wasting your own time. School is only free for so long so learn while it is. you can’t blame the school.
