by Erica Michelle

Created on: July 25, 2007   Last Updated: July 26, 2007

In school, teachers often struggle with classroom inefficiency. Teachers have been noticing more and more how it is such a common occurrence for students to say irrelevant statements during class. For example, Little Billy was known for asking his algebra teacher about window washing. Little Mary always announced what she had for dinner in the middle of her history tests. And there is a rumor that Little Bobby described his parent's intimacy problems during a lecture about panda bears. This pattern of student interruption is extremely disturbing to teachers, and it must be stopped. But before it must be stopped, we must ask, why must it be stopped? What is so bad about students interrupting classes with their irrelevant statements? Well, it is absolutely horrible, and the following essay will describe just why it is so horrible, and why it must absolutely be stopped at all costs.

First of all, the classroom is an extremely serious place. In the classroom, students learn about very serious topics, such as English, French, Math, Science, or Hebrew. These topics are serious because if students do not learn the information relevant to these topics, they will not have the information that they need to succeed in the working world. And if these students do not succeed in the working world, then they will not have the money to support themselves, and they will basically perish in tragic circumstance. Therefore, the proper conclusion to make is that it is important to take these subjects very seriously; otherwise you might eventually die in tragic circumstance. Saying irrelevant statements is a very bad idea, because it will detract time from learning the truly important subjects.

Another reason why irrelevant statements are so dangerous is that they are associated with the imagination. And the imagination is one of the most dangerous things known to man. When a student says something that is irrelevant to the subject he or she is learning in class, he or she has demonstrated a particular ability of non-linear associative thinking. This means that this student has an imagination in which seemingly non-similar things can actually be found to connect and mesh together. For example, the words cup' and cheetah cat' do not seem to connect. But in the mind of an imaginative child, a cup full of cheeto's, the famed orange cheese snack with the cheetah cat mascot, might appear. In the classroom environment, this type of thinking is very, very bad. Why? Because students eventually

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