Sleeping in class

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>In my old school I used to sit right under the teacher’s nose and sleep in almost all of my classes, especially chemistry which was ALWAYS last period - for soo many years! I found it so boring as well. I never used to sleep in maths cuz you have to work. Here I rarly sleep in class because it doesn’t seem to be that well accepted. But today I fell asleep in physics and still somehow managed to ask questions to seem awake. yay me! LOL</p>

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<p>At any given moment, when the teacher is not:
a) standing right behind you
b) standing in front of you
c) scanning the whole class with his/her beady eyes
d) having a test</p>

<p>Which, in my displeasure, is very RARE.</p>

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<p>I don’t think I ever fell asleep in any of my classes this year or last year. It’s more like I can’t - somehow I ended sitting in the front of the room (literally right next to teacher) in all 8 of my classes. I can’t even do homework in any of my classes…</p>

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<p>Do your teachers just not notice? Or not care?</p>

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<p>I’ve never slept in a single class, save for once in 8th grade when we were watching a movie in Spanish and I was exhausted beyond belief because I was out celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) with my best friends just the night before. The fact that all the lights were turned out for the movie didn’t help matters. But my teacher didn’t seem to care, since I was a top student in Spanish anyways and I explained to him that I had been up late the night before (I came into class looking REALLY tired and he asked why).</p>

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<p>I’ve never full on slept in class before, but sometimes I doze off and get that mini-seizure when my body tries to keep me awake. Kinda embarrassing when other people notice.</p>

<p>IF I did fall asleep my teachers probably wouldn’t care, they’re pretty laid back at my school. Sometimes they drop books, ignore them, or use them in lesson. :smiley: Like in Bio Freshman year, during the nutrition chapter. “If you don’t get all the necessary nutrients you’ll become exhausted more frequently, kinda like him, he’s probably not getting enough,” pointing to the sleeping kid in the front row.</p>

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<p>^That happened to me like 25 times in Civics, haha.</p>

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<p>I have a REALLY hard time falling asleep in class. I’ve tried it soooo many times and I’ve come pretty close, but I don’t think I’ve actually fallen asleep.</p>

<p>Some of my favorite classes to attempt sleep in:</p>

<p>Spanish (SOOO boring and 1st class of the day too so naturally I want to sleep)
Economics (I sit right in front of the teacher and either he doesn’t notice that I have my head down for 75% of the class, or he doesn’t care.)
Environmental Science (I’m notorious for never being alert and always being half-asleep in that class)</p>

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<p>English generally</p>

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<p>Every class. I’ve been sleeping in class for so long over the years, that I’m actually known as the “guy who sleeps in class” to those that I don’t hang out with and only casually know.</p>

<p>Some teachers who are chill have gotten over it, as I’m usually awake during like tests and etc, really important things.</p>

<p>Those that aren’t, I still sleep, but if it gets too out of hand I’ll usually sleep in a way that they can’t notice such as resting my arm/elbow on the desk and rest my head on it with a pencil in my hand to pretend like I’m listening, in this fashion or so <a href=“http://zforza.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sleeping_in_class.jpg[/url]”>http://zforza.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sleeping_in_class.jpg&lt;/a&gt; (with being less obvious than that).</p>

<p>I’ve done it so long that I don’t get caught anymore.</p>

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<p>I always fall asleep in English, Geosystems if we have a movie, and Latin.</p>

<p>Last year someone fell asleep in the classroom and our teacher had everyone silently leave the classroom. He made a loud noise before leaving and the kid absolutely geeked out when he realized he was the only one there.</p>

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<p>I used to a lot last year. Mainly due to lack of sleep, but my body has adapted since.</p>

<p>So I’ve stopped since. Now only a couple times in Math/Physics. I dunno why really. Sometimes they tell off-topic stories that I could really care less about. I guess that’s kind of mean. Sorry.</p>

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<p>Lol…one of my classmates, who sits directly in the front, was dozing off in class today. I was just studying that the whole period. </p>

<p>It’s amazing - he has the whole thing down like an art. He positions himself in a way where it seems like he’s actually reading, doing sometime, or paying attention from the side. And for some reason, he just magically wakes up just a second or two right before when the teacher is about look up at him or is walking towards the front of the room.</p>

<p>I don’t know how he does it.</p>

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<p>APES, no offense to my teacher, she is so cool and great, but I could teach that class. Also all English classes have become 45 minute naps for me.</p>

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<p>Unless your class is study hall, sleeping in class is not an option. I felt like I was going to fall asleep sometimes, but I never had the embarrassing moment of getting caught napping. State tests are next week. After I breezed though those, I could use the remaining time to take a nap (many classrooms in my school have couches).</p>

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<p>In my school, kids sleeping isn’t special at all. No one makes fun of them or cares. Some teachers wake you up and tell you to pay attention at most. I’ve fallen asleep in everyone of my classes excluding p.e. In every class there is a least one kid sleeping.</p>

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<p>Physics. It’s honestly a study center. Soo many idiots in there, we learned F=ma for…12 weeks maybe?
My teacher knows I know everything, so she basically lets me do whatever I want. It’s right after lunch too, so I can nap for 30 mins, then do the worksheet at the end of class.
It’s a savior when you’ve got APs coming up soon too.</p>

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<p>AP Chem, AP Psych, AP Gov, AP Physics</p>

<p>Cause I can and I’m tired.</p>

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<p>i thought everyone sleeps in class. even a majority of our top students sleep in class. everyone tries not to get caught, but we have uber small classrooms with an uber small number of students so if your eyes aren’t open for a while the teacher wakes you up. teachers who think you’re a fail student also assume you sleep through their class and consequently pick on you if you aren’t paying full attention.</p>

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<p>AP Lit. It’s so boring, and his voice is so calming that it’s just a deadly combination.</p>

<p>One time I was dozing off, and he came up to me and said, “I see you’re falling asleep… I don’t know if you didn’t get enough sleep last night, or if it’s because you just had lunch… or maybe it’s too warm over here, and maybe you’d like to move over to the windows…”</p>

<p>I just wanted to yell “NO. BORING. BOOOOOORING.”</p>

<p>:|</p>