final draft. editorial

New School is a Drag
Alyssa Herman

Any normal person would be excited about moving into a new school, but when there’s ridiculous rules it’s impossible to enjoy. Both staff and students couldn't wait for TRHS’s brand new high school.
When the time finally arrived almost everyone was bummed about the ridiculous rules we had to suddenly put up with. After hearing from the students and adding my own take on the whole situation, I believe the school needs to lighten up. The two most ridiculous rules are that we can't have water, and that we can't even wear coats
First of all water is not a big deal at all. It doesn’t stain and it’s really easy to clean up. We clean the floors with water, why can't we drink it? Not only is this rule stupid, it’s insane. All we ever heard in the old school was "make sure you guys are drinking water." "It’s always good to have a bottle of water with you in class." It’s too much of a hassle to get up during class and drink out of the fountains. Even teachers get irritated that we can’t have water. We have become so use to having a bottle of water, and now all of a sudden it’s banned. I believe Mr. White is being terribly unreasonable. Especially when half the teachers don’t even follow the rules.
The school is not always warm. The heat doesn’t turn on till 7:00am. When we have really cold nights, which we do its Wyoming, the building takes too long to warm up. The past week in the school has been almost colder than outside. We should not be told whether we're aloud to wear coats are not. We are individuals and if I want to wear a coat I'm going to wear a coat. They haven't even given us a good reason why we shouldn’t wear coats. They said anything we wear outside we shouldn’t wear inside, well I think that if its colder in the building then outside, we should be allowed to wear a coat.
Mr. White and the teachers need to realize these little rules are unintelligent. It is NOT a big deal to have water in the class rooms, or to wear a coat. If they can give me one good reason why coats are a big deal, which they aren’t then maybe I will consider not wearing one.