Do You Agree with ELC’s Policy of No Eating or Drinking in Classrooms? Why? The classroom is a place appropriate to acquire knowledge, to discuss ideas, and to develop skills. Students must be able to differentiate classroom from a cafeteria, a restaurant, or a bar. For these reasons, I support the ELC’s policy of no eating or drinking in classrooms. First of all, eating and drinking takes away the appropriate academic environment in the classroom. We all have a pretty good idea why, in our houses, we do not study in the kitchen, or when we go out to seek a space to study, we never choose a restaurant. That happens because these places do not have conditions that allow us to study productively. The same happens when people begin eating or drinking in the classroom. They kill the academic environment. The classroom that was supposed to smell of “paper, books, and chalk” now smells McDonalds or coffee or whatever food the students think that they have the right to bring in class. Is it still a suitable place to learn? Can we keep calling classroom? I do not think so. …show more content…
As we know, many ELC students come to class without eating breakfast because they woke up late, or they stayed too long in the shower or some other reason. Even though they are starving, they try to do their best to pay attention and understand what their master are teaching, but it is very stressful when somebody is eating or drinking in class. It is like mental torture - something that ELC students definitely do not need. I think that these students must think about their classmates before thinking in their stomachs, and I also think that most of them do not eat because they are hungry, but for pure pleasure, so we can avoid