“And so when she was talking to me she s--”

 “She said that you could! Right?”

 “Just let me finish, and I’ll tell you.”

 

Oh, interruptions. As annoying as they are, they are a part of our daily lives. Getting cut off in the middle of a sentence, having to stop doing an important task to do something else, having your mind redirected in mid-thought -- they are all annoying interruptions.

 

As typical and ordinary as they are, interruptions can be quite inconvenient, causing schedule

changes and total disruption of flow. Besides being just flat out annoying, interruptions actually do affect people in the workplace. On average, workers are interrupted at least 12 times a day, causing less productivity and millions of dollars lost.

 

Interruptions can also affect students in a learning environment. “Last year in chemistry, our class was always getting disrupted, because Mrs. Lundberg was always getting onto someone,” says junior, Madeleine Colvard. Such interruptions caused students to have lower grades, and not understand anything they were given for homework. Their test scores lowered, thus angering the students more and more every day.

 

With so many bad consequences, it’s no wonder people find consequences so irritating. We must work together to diminish the amount of interruptions we have in a school day.