Recently the ‘no beverage’ rule in classrooms has been reinforced to extremes. Students have been followed down the hallways until the administrator sees the student throw out their newly bought coffee or beverage. This rule has always been around but only certain teacher truly enforced it in their classrooms. If teachers are okay with students having their morning coffee, they should be allowed to bring it.

As teenagers waking up at 6 am for a 6-and-a-half hour day of being engaged and who are always ready to learn, we need our boost of energy to start the day. Just like teachers, students drink coffee. Teachers often tell their students that they don’t even care about the rule and to just hide their beverages so they don’t get in trouble. If teachers don’t mind their students having coffee then it should not be a rule.

Administration claims that the rule has been reinforced now because teachers are complaining about spills in the classrooms and that it has become too much for the janitors, yet some teachers claim to find the rule to be silly too.

The facts don’t add up, the rule should either be eliminated or always enforced. It makes no sense to have a rule that is only enforced in certain circumstances. For instance, there are a few teachers who religiously enforce the rule and others who don’t bother at all.

Offering a “break” from the rule to the winner of the can and bottle drive furthers the argument of the rule being unimportant. If they can ignore the rule for a week then it must not be a very important rule because obviously they wouldn’t offer to ignore fighting or cheating for a week.