Thomas Cantrell

Associate Viewpoints Editor

GRC teaches the best and brightest students in the state of Kentucky. We have AP students, governor scholars, and most importantly, smokers.

Smokers are by far the smartest, most clever students in the entire school. If you don’t believe me, then I suggest glancing at the stairwells in the school. When the teachers began locking the bathrooms and took away their smoking location, they took their butts from the bathroom to the stairwells. That was a problem no average honor student could solve.

AP and dual-credit students are too busy in their classes (like losers) to figure out where they could smoke now. Smokers are better students because they have the one important thing
that isn’t gained in the usual classroom setting. The thing that separates smokers from their less intelligent class- mates is experience. While normal students waste their time on worksheets, smokers are solving real problems and are using critical thinking abilities.

Smokers have to find the most suitable location to smoke – one without smoke detectors and where the teachers won’t see them.

They have to make sure that teachers won’t find and confiscate their contraband. They even have to figure out how they will obtain their cigarettes, despite the laws that make it illegal for a minor to buy tobacco products.

Schools spend far too much time and resources in the futile effort to stop students from smoking.

The people in charge need to finally accept that smokers are the future of this school. If they weren’t so busy trying to stop smokers, they might have noticed that the real reason smokers skip class is because they simply have nothing that they could be taught.

The truth all along has been that smokers have no need to waste their time in classes if they already know everything that the teacher will tell them.

We need to go ahead and give smokers their high school diplomas so they can go on to college and change the world.