A high school teacher had become very annoyed. Very few of his students paid attention to him during class. This wouldn’t be so bad if not for the fact that they were always brought in their iPods and CD players and pretended like they weren’t in school. The teacher was fed up with scolding his students, assigning detentions, and confiscating the music devices. One day, he came up with, what he thought to be, a wonderful solution.
In the morning after all of the students filed in and sat down, and after the teacher walked around plucking headphones off of them, he called their attention.
“Class,” he said with a pretentious smirk on his face, “I’ve noticed that you all love music so much. I’m sure that I would enjoy hearing that which holds your attention all day, it must be fantastic. So from now on, when I catch someone listening to a music device, as a punishment, he or she will have to stand in front of the class and sing whatever they’re listening to. And yes, that does include instrumental music.”
A voice in the back of the class piped up, “Trust me, if you make us sing, that’ll be more of a punishment for you!”