I've come to the observation that the key element to a classroom's atmosphere is respect. A respect between both the teacher and students, as well as the students between themselves. When a class holds a certain standard of respect, I find it to be more motivating. A place I feel welcome is a place where I feel I can work. This overlooked aspect of environmental influence in respect to accomplishment is one of the most blatantly absent aspects of almost every public school class in the United States. I say the United States specifically, only because that is the only public school system I have personally experienced.

It makes me sad to think that perhaps one of the easiest forms of human compassion and support escapes so many of us because of some disturbing need many people seem to have to torture and humiliate their peers. There is no suitable punishment, or really any viable solution in the first place, to take care of the plague of immaturity and baseless loathing between some students based on nothing but difference. Fear of difference is the root of Intolerance and Intolerance is the root of prejudicial assumptions, as these assumptions serve nothing but to cause foolish children to ridicule others to bolster their own ego.

This "Missing Exchange" of respect between us forms a very perceptible atmosphere of distrust and hostility that does much more than just make time spent in the classroom uncomfortable, it subtracts from your ability, or rather your will, to do work or even function normally in the class itself.

This detrimental atmosphere is one of the reasons I left High School and took my GED test 3 months from the end of Senior year, scoring over 96% in every subject compared to all the graduating Seniors in the country. I was so tired of the overly hostile environment and the constant attempts of others to insult and taunt me. I had gotten to a point where I was literally so demoralized and fed up with the environment I was forced to go into every day, that I ended up...

I would like to take a moment to look at the typical behavioral patterns of the average server administrator. Now, I understand these people have have a responsibility to keep the server enjoyable, but sadly this is not always the case. These people think they're doing their job, but most administrators these days just flaunt their position acquired only to improve their own experience. Too long have I hopped from server to server in every game I own, only to find more and more of these pseudo-caretakers with egos larger than the Milky Way.

The first problem is a obligation people feel to give administrator privileges to all their friends and clan members, most of whom tend to only use their position as a their primary defense. These people more often then not completely abuse this, even to the point where they forgo the typical "cheater" accusations when they begin losing to a skilled player who is obviously not doing any such thing, and ban them from the server based on nothing their own insecurities and frustrations. When people feel that they have no way of losing their administrative position (and not just the younger people though it be present more often) they tend to act on annoying and childish impulses, acting as if they owned the server themselves.

From the extensive time on the internet I have observed that fair and patient administrators are few in number. I find good administrators tend to be patient and neutral. Sadly it's hard to remain neutral in a confrontation between a stranger and a friend, and though some may not agree with me I feel in even these circumstances most administrators take a downfall because they will almost always favor their friend's opinion over the other no matter how at fault their friend is. I believe a good administrator will look at every situation, involving a friend or not, as an absolute neutral observer. If your friend abuses his administrative powers, they should be removed, if he refuses to associate with you because of that, he is not your...