By Jaylian Nesbeth '18

Guest columnist

   At school, have you ever listened to all the side conversations that the students have with each other? Well, I do. Now, remember the purpose of school: learning, right? Yes, learning, but strangely, all the side conversations are never, ever about school.

     Weird, why would they be having a conversation that’s so irrelevant to the reason they even came to school? Makes no sense to me, we all come here for a reason well, at least we’re supposed to, seems as if some of us come here for all the wrong reasons. “ Why’s she wearing that?”, “Does she have a hickey?’, “Wow, her Jordan sneakers are fake.”  These are the things I hear when I listen to the conversations in school. I think we’d all agree that those things have absolutely nothing to do with learning, the whole entire reason we’re  even at school.

     Now, have you ever thought that maybe if all these irrelevant conversations stopped , that maybe there wouldn’t be as much bullying, or maybe there wouldn’t be as many kids failing because they’d be focusing on learning and not the irrelevant side conversations? I think that all the time, maybe kids would actually want to go to school. You don’t go to school with the intentions of anything besides learning because school is meant for nothing more than learning.

     It’s the tiniest things that throw today’s generation off. Maybe if the one little thing stopped there’d be more educated people and less homeless people for the future generations.