YES, WE HAVE RULES...

RULE # 0.

All ordinary school rules (food, audio equipment, clothing, internet, etc.) that you are familiar with are in force in Mr. Crouch's class.

OTHER GENERAL RULES

  1. In our society, a certain notion of "humorous discourtesy" and "hip rudeness" is being promulgated by television. There is a lot of stuff that is acceptable to say and do in a sit-com on prime time television that is completely unacceptable in here. This is our workplace and we will follow norms of behavior and courtesy appropriate to a workplace.
  2. As is traditional, you will call the teacher Mr. Crouch until you are a graduate of this institution.
  3. I reserve the right to give NO reminders or warnings. I can not document that I have given every student the same number of reminders and warnings, and still do my job as a teacher. If you want to be treated "fairly"-- Obey all the rules.
  4. Understand that Mr. Crouch does silly things for very serious reasons. If you do something silly you'd better have a serious reason, also.
  5. You are officially tasked with playing along with choral response and other in class games. They may seem childish or goofy, but I do them because research shows they work.
  6. If you do not have a signed internet policy, and you get on the internet, you will be given detention hall. Period.
  7. Don't make the teacher laugh too much or he will get cantankerous after a while.
  8. Yes, we will have NO food and drink. If you are a compulsive candy sneaker, get over it.
  9. I know that you are adolescents and you have your cliques and your groups that you love and hate. None of that matters in this class. When I ask you to work with someone, you work with that person, and be courteous and professional.
  10. No, you may not work on material from other courses.
  11. No, you may not go anywhere other than the rest room or the councelor or the nurse during my time. Arrange to take care of your materials from your car, your books, phone calls, romantic life, ride arrangements, etc. on your own time.
  12. If you find the course tasks easy, and finish quickly, how wonderful for you. Help people, or find some computing topic to study, or move on to the next assignment. You are not free to loaf because you are so brilliant.
  13. Time on task does not end until the bell rings. Stay seated and, at worst, converse quietly the last 3 minutes of class.

COMPUTER LAB RULES

  1. WARNING: Don't try to apply my lab rules to someone else's lab.They are less restrictive than in other labs because this is a Computer Science course, and I can fix (software) things that you break.
  2. Follow ordinary rules for safety with electrical appliances. Assume all wiring is carrying a substantial amount of current and you'll do ok.
  3. Rules prohibiting you from downloading vulgar and controversial material are still in force.
  4. Don't visit your free email accounts.
  5. Don't open/install chat clients.
  6. When you come in, inspect your machine, and immediately tell me if anything is not working.
  7. Don't explore your computer or web surf while you have tasks to do.
  8. Don't make the computer make noises. Turn off the sound if necessary.
  9. Expect to have your homeworks graded very carefully if I find candy wrappers around your space.
  10. Follow whatever procedure Mr. Crouch specifies for ending class.
  11. If your assignments aren't completed do not web surf.
  12. Some students, Lord bless 'em, actually ask permission too much. Use your judgement, and these rules as guidelines in your computing experiments. If you think it is safe, won't disrupt other people's work, etc., just go do it. If I think its inappropriate, you'll hear about it.