With the school year officially in full swing, students and teachers alike are beginning to settle into their new routine with different schedules, classmates, or students, and for some, campus. With big changes such as those listed above, it can cause a challenge for students who struggle with disruption. 

Over the years, it seems that with each new transition, some students lose more and more respect for not just their peers, but also their teachers. This can completely drain the classroom of any signs of positivity for the rest of the class period, and in a teachers case, sometimes the rest of the day.

“ . . . It [students’ attitudes] can wreck everyone’s enjoyment of my class,” Robert Hansen, the teacher who oversees the only three theater classes, said. “And my classes are based on enjoyment. So it can be a big deal.”

No matter how much experience a teacher has, students’ disrespect or attitude can still have an effect on them and how they treat the rest of the class.

“Sometimes I get grouchy at those students,” Leah Ross, the Advanced Geometry and Bridge to College Math teacher, said. “It just makes me less patient with everyone else.”

One of the age groups that is the most referenced when speaking about disruptive students is the freshmen. However, not all freshmen deserve this reputation, Cassidy Garrison being one of those students.

“It either puts the class to a pause where everyone has to stop, or it’s just, like, it’s disruptive for everyone” Garrison said.

Teachers are humans too. They are trying to make it through the day just like the rest of us. Students should be showing them more respect than some of them are at this current moment. Teachers are here because they want you to succeed. Listen to their advice, and hold onto it.

“What I would love every high schooler to do at some point is realize that the person next to them, most of the time they just are trying to learn. Everyone’s trying to do the same dang thing. And it doesn’t help that you’re having a moment of distraction to then distract other people.” Hansen said.