Every Wednesday afternoon, my son, a second grade student, has to go to my office to do his homework because he only has half day of school. When he passed by the classrooms for the first time, he saw someone slept on the desk while a teacher lectured in front of the class. He was very surprised to see that and kept saying “He is a bad student.” After the first Wednesday, he was eager to find out if there were students sleeping while a teacher lectured in the class every time when he passed by the classrooms. No doubt, there were always students sleeping in the classes. He always laughed and thought it was amused when he fount out the situation. At first, I would say it is not right to sleep in the classes to him. Then, I would ask him if it is all right to sleep in the classes. His answer is always no. I suppose that the students who slept in the classroom know that, too, but since the teacher did not say anything and no one was bothered by their behavior, they thought their behavior was acceptable.

I found out a lot of similar behavior on people, for example, driving without following the traffic rules, parking in front of a store for their convenient. It seems that we do not have laws or rules in this society, and most important is that we do not have ethic and moral. People won't justify other's mistakes as long as his/her behavior won't hurt them or bother them, just like the teachers or the classmates in the classrooms with students sleeping in it. If a teacher does not justify his/her students' behavior, who will? A pedestrian? I don't think so.