The Six Million Dollar ... Students: An Observation

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I have to say that it really irks me how students at the school I work at seem to be totally incapable of attending their classes without some kind of hardware attached to them. They look like cyborgs walking down the hall. It's really obvious, too, just who are the haves, the have-nots, and those who spend more time at their after-school job making money to pay for their camera-phones and mp3 players than at their school work (and if there's one thing that drives me up a wall, it's the students who are wasting their time at school - those who are more concerned about what's being worn by whom instead of taking advantage of their school programs and, I don't know, putting forth some effort in bettering themselves - but that's really a rant for another day).

It's a school policy that cell phones, walkmen/discmen/mp3 players, etc. are not to be used in classes, but teachers don't always enforce it. I realize that it's a difficult thing to do, what with there being over 1600 students in the 11th and 12th grades alone and a definite decline in the respectfulness of students overall, but still. It irks me.

And I can't always get the Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman sound effects out of my head before a silly grin escapes at how totally ridiculous the students look when they're walking by with their earphones glued to their ears, mp3 players smacking them in the chest as they walk by, and their heads bent over their cellphone displays as they text message their classmates one hallway away.

There goes a student! Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch!