When sitting in class, I listen the best I can, but there is always someone talking in the background, completely ignoring the teacher. To those people who don’t care about their grades, I have a message for you.

No one enjoys being interrupted. The teacher doesn’t, and the student trying to get an education doesn’t either. I come to school to learn something. Yes, I do talk to my friends in the hall, or at lunch, or even in class. But not while the teacher is teaching, and I’m not the only one who feels this way.

When interrupting a class, what’s going through your mind? Do you really hate that class? Or are you bored out of your mind? Other classmates find it extremely annoying that someone thinks it’s funny to just completely disturb the class. Whether it’s a joke about something stupid, or just blurring out the answer, all of it is disturbing.

Everyone goes through what you feel. There’s always a moment in everyone’s life were they just don’t want to be at school. If you’re tired, or sick, or would rather be doing something else, most of the time you complain to your teachers in the middle of class about how much homework you have and how done with school you are.

Every teacher knows how you feel. They all were once in school too. But it’s something you’re just going to have to do. So don’t ruin it for the people who want to be there at that moment.

Be careful when messing around in class as well. Your actions now could affect you in the future. When you go to college, or applying to get a job, you might need a letter of recommendation from a teacher. Your teachers aren’t going to want to write you a good recommendation if you were always bad in that class. Your grades could be straight A’s, but sometimes a person’s behavior is more important, and if you tried your best or not.

So to those fellow classmates who purposely slack off in class, just know that not only the teacher finds it annoying. Most of the people around you do too.