Reasons Why Students Should Yield Cheerful Obedience to School Regulations by C. C. L.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 6, 1906

Reasons Why Students Should Yield Cheerful Obedience to School Regulations

By C. C. L.

1. BECAUSE school regulations are usually moderate, reasonable, and for the best interests of the school and the students themselves.

2. Because every student promises by the act of entering school, and frequently by signing the entrance papers, to observe the regulations of the school; and no student can afford to break his promise.

3. Because the school reposes confidence in its students, placing them upon their honor, assuming, trusting, and believing that, having a high sense of honor, they will govern themselves in harmony with the regulations. Not to do so is a betrayal of confidence.

4. Because if students violate the regulations, they cause some to think, unjustly, that the members of the faculty have closed their eyes to the acts of certain favored ones.

5. Because the example of violating any regulation encourages others to

transgress not only that regulation, but other regulations according to their fancy, thus undermining the very foundations of the school government.

6. Because if students who violate regulations are professed Christians and take active part in religious affairs, they injure their influence, and cause others to lose confidence in them by giving just ground for thinking that their religion is emotional and superficial and not based upon the eternal principles of right and duty.

7. Because any student who purposely violates any regulation injures his own character by blunting his sensibility to right and wrong, by placing himself in a wrong attitude toward law and order, and by searing his conscience in regard to duty.

8. Because disobedience is rebellion, and to rebel against the government of the school is to rebel against God. “The powers that be, are ordained of God.”

There is no escaping the issue. If students can not abide by the regulations of a school, they should honorably say so and withdraw. They should not dishonorably remain in school in open or secret transgression of the school laws.

C. C. L.