SERIOUSLY?!?!?!
Based on the rest of that list, I get that the teacher is trying to get students to express themselves better. But "bless you"? A distraction? Saying "bless you" isn't a distraction. A sneeze is a distraction. A teacher calling out a student for saying something as innocuous as "bless you" is a distraction.
I can see students who are expected to remain quiet taking advantage of a sneeze to loudly bless someone, just to violate a rule. Assuming these noisy blessings go unchallenged, I can also see students seeing just how far they can push it before something is done about it. Something tells me there is more to this than a simple "bless you"
We talked about that possibility at the office yesterday. I bet that there is more to this story.
I once worked in an office where every time someone sneezed, there was a race to see who could say "Bless you" the quickest and loudest. One of several reasons I hated working there.
I read in another story recently where the teacher said "we aren't going to have Godly speaking" and that a student saying "God bless you" in school was against the law. The teacher had also allegedly demeaned students for their faith and the subject of this teacher's behavior had been discussed in a meeting some time previous to this event. If those accounts are remotely true and even if the student was intentionally disruptive then I support the act of civil disobedience. Id' be willing to bet that the students will learn more from that act than anything else taught in that classroom.
