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RICH: Yeah. The other day Tyson in our class, considered a big slacker, he, during the Megatrends, when we take notes, he hasn’t been taking notes, three days a week. And she got really angry at him, kicked him out of classroom for about fifteen minutes. But in essence it is the same thing: critical thinking in action, so to speak. There is no way to make sense of classroom rules if they are never broken. Not all disruptive behavior may be considered second discourse. Some actions probably have no further messages behind them, especially those of individual aggression. Here is how a school tale goes: MONICA: Once he [never mind, who] ripped off all the days of July out of calendars, and then he kicked somebody and shoved somebody into a locker, once he stubbed somebody in the arm with a pencil. There are good disruptions and bad disruptions, although group members could never come to an agreement about which is which. All agree on the fact that some disruptions are good, and some are bad. Ned is one of the most talkative students in the class, one who does a lot of talking out. He comments, NED: ...Some people just don’t comprehend when to stop, like Radek. He gets in trouble more than anyone. On other occasion he tries to elaborate how his interruptions (of a good kind) are different from those of a bad kind: NED: When I ask her [the teacher] some question she goes (mocking voice): this is nothing new [not clear]. Just like shut up! She just like say stupid things. INV: What if you were a teacher? NED: I wouldn’t care if somebody asks in class. I don’t give a freak. I would just answer them. INV: All of them? NED: Well, it depends. If it were a completely irrelevant question like was there any blood?, like Radek, I’d say oh, shut up, go in the hall. I’d just say: Radek, it’s irrelevant, and go on to the next question. But here is what another classmate says about Ned himself: MONICA: There is people like Ned, who never really listens. So he asks question Ms. D. just talked about. Or he doesn’t listen but he kind of listens, and then when Ms. D. was talking about that band playing, he said, you mean, there is going to be a play, too? So he just sort of doesn’t really completely listen.