A bigger meaning

     Recently a new rule in ECHS as been put into place has not gone over well with the students. The rule is as the following, " There is no [hone usage aloud in the class rooms, hallways, or bathrooms. Any student to be caught with a phone in these areas (without permission) will immediately have to take the device to the office. the phone will be returned at the end of the day." Now I personally don't agree with this rule for a few reasons. One reason is important messages can be missed from family members, coaches, etc. By missing these messages a student can miss a ride somewhere, forget to do something important and so on. Another reason is we (as a class) are constantly being told that we are technically college students and we have to act like adults and we need to work at a pace close to college students, but we get most of the privileges a college student get. Such as being aloud to wear hats around campus, wear gloves in class, use are phones in buildings, and get to eat at market place. Now I know some of these are nit picky little things that I will admit that most high schools have in place, but how are we expected to act like adults and work at a pace of adults, then get petty little rules that only infuriate 90% of the student body. I'm not saying let us do whatever we want, but I'm saying to get us out of this middle ground of being a high school student and a college student. We should be treated 100% high school student or 100% college student. I believe this is a easy permanent and fair solution to make both sides happy. As these few weeks go on I'm afraid is students will become more and more frustrated with these rules and lack of what they can do about it.