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What exactly distracts a student from learning? I found myself asking this question when a boy in my grade decided to "dress in drag" for today, in what he said was a support of trangendered rights.

They made him change clothes because he was a distraction, and while I agree that him and his skirt and fake boobs were distracting (not to mention hysterical and stupid), I was wondering why it is the the peppy little cheerleaders (and other assorted females) are not made to change when they are wearing short skirts, high shirts, and otherwise baring most of their skin? How is that not also distracting?

I have male friends who check these girls out (looking up their skirts in some cases) and I'm just wondering why that doesn't count as a distraction to their learning process.

They may not laugh at these girls and audibly distract others and themselves, as students did to this boy today (he deserved it and probably wanted it), but they still provide a sexual distraction.

So what qualifies as distracting?

Moose would like to state that you wouldn't mind if he signed another girl's chest, you shouldn't mind that he's looking up another girl's skirt. And if you do, you should wear more skirts.

The thing is, the jackass in question (since we both know he is) was trying to provoke a response. He's making a laughingstock of the very thing he's trying to support, and he was trying to be a disruption. These girls, on the other hand, are dressing how they're "expected" and "allowed" to. (Moose would also like to add that it was a study hall anyway. He was bored, Jackie's an idiot and was sitting in a way that made it visible, and it was hot.) The aforementioned gay boy is just looking for an excuse to play the discrimination card.

Furthermore, people were laughing at him in class, were talking about his idiocy, and were generally not paying attention because of it. It was a distraction, whether he admits it or not.

Whatever. Moose will stare, I will stare, and maybe, just maybe, I will seduce her. And Moose defaults to-it was a study hall.

Furthermore, we now have, for everyone to see, your admission that Jackie isn't an idiot. We should frame this.

It's messy, we lack the necessary funds, he's fun to make fun of...also, I'm a sadist (and essentially a b***h) and like to watch him try to provoke a response. The wonderful thing is-no one cares.

I mean that no one cares enough to kill him. He'll be burned, and he'll have to deal with it. But I'm not going to be the one to do it.

And she very well might be a genius at that. And even if you assume that she is, she's very discreet. Both Moose and I saw her underwear about ten times in that study hall. They were red and white striped. I thought of Doctor Suess.

You want distractions? I'll give you distractions!
Anything interesting. Which, for me, is quite a lot.
But I have ADD, so I guess that makes me an outlier. Or not. I'm surprised at how many people are diagnosed with ADD. And, for that matter, there's misconceptions about it (just today, someone didn't beleive that I had ADD because I was "too smart").

But anyways, anything more interesting that the work is a distraction.
Some people search for a distraction because they know they can't concentrate on the work, and need something to do to keep themselves from distracting others.
(also today, I started writing a rant, in French, about the French final exam I was supposed to be finishing. It helped me actually learn about French (though, because I was supposed to be taking a test, I couldn't use a dictionary, and had to resort to english at the end because I hadn't been taught much vocabulary. Which was a main point of the letter. But, while I've only taken one year of french, I'm still pissed off about it)

Actually, it's rather ironic. What distracts students from learning is the chance to learn something they're not supposed to. If they could easily learn about it, they would have already learned all they wanted, or not found it interesting anymore.