Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail

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Demerits and Digits

When I was in eighth grade, my school implemented a new iPad program. We were recognized as an “Apple Certified School” or some bullcrap like that. The problem was that students were just using them to play games, the administration didn’t have any way to crack down on it, and teachers had no clue how to implement it in the classroom. We constantly played 2048 in class since it was impossible for them to block all the different iterations for it, and when they made it an instant demerit to be found playing it, even in lunch and homeroom, we just switched over to browser Tetris. It was so bad that one kid who sat right next to me didn’t even try to focus on school. He would spend the entire period playing on his iPad, then constantly complained that he kept scoring 50s and 60s on his tests.