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I’m Tired of Smelling Weed in My Classes
It’s always been a problem, but it never used to be every day.
I am not a prude, a cop, or a rat, and I don’t have any interest in getting anyone in trouble over this. But I am a teacher. Students who bring the smell of weed into a class make my job harder, and they’re not doing themselves any favors.
When students bring the smell of marijuana into my classroom, they are taking something that should be their business, their consumption of drug, and making it everyone’s business. I don’t care to know that some of my students choose to get loaded in the stairwell right before they come to class at 9 a.m.
I don’t want to hear that it’s harmless. I am supposed to be sensitive to the ways that students can harm themselves, and students who smoke weed right before class are abusing it and themselves.
They’re also harming their classmates. Bringing the smell of weed into a classroom is disruptive and disrespectful to sober classmates who are there to learn. It is an unwelcome and obnoxious distraction.
Marijuana impairs a student’s ability to learn. Sometimes students can barely speak when they get to class. Sometimes they can barely stand.
