Thursday, 28 August 2008
The Disclosure Epidemic Print E-mail
Nate Howell   

Well, the second week of school has almost come to an end, and everything is as it should be. Teachers are teaching, students are studying, and administrators are administrating. Not a class period goes by without students wondering how in the world they could have possibly learned so much in such a small amount of time. Joy and happiness abound, and the halls echo with songs of laughter.

However, school wasn't always like this. The first two days of school told a much different story. There was no happiness. There were no songs. There were only the hated enemies of teachers and students alike -- disclosure documents.

Now teachers read their documents to teach students the rules and policies of the class. Somehow this takes the whole class period. The teachers then expect the kids to take the document home to their parents to read and sign, which they just sign without looking.

To make it even more boring, the policies are exactly the same for each class and surprisingly enough, hearing the same thing eight times gets boring. There are very few differences between classes and it's hard to keep track of which one goes with which class. They are a terrible start to school. Nobody wants to spend the first two days of school bored to death.

During these two terrible days, I decided to think of a solution to the growing disease of disclosure documents.

I decided that to be able to beat them, I had to figure out how they started. After much thought, I discovered the whole concept came from the Bee Gees. How did I figure this out, you ask? Why, by simple anagrams, of course!

The word "disclosure" can be rearranged to spell "disco rules." If that's not enough proof, I don't know what is.

Now that I had a strong understanding of my enemy, I came up with the idea to have any unusual policies quickly stated the first day and be posted on the wall of the classroom. Students remember anything on the wall better than something on a disclosure document. They look at the wall more often than the teacher. For example, I had the number pi memorized to 20 digits because there was a poster of it on the wall of my math class.

Hopefully someone important realizes this as well and fixes it.

Those blasted Bee Gees.

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