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Background Research

http://712educators.about.com/od/classroomhelpers/tp/Ways-Students-Misbehave.htm                                   The article linked above discusses with perspective teachers how to deal with the problems that arise with their students. Bullet number 2 discusses talking, and bullet number 6 discusses sleeping. The information from this article supports the idea that talking in class is more disrespectful than sleeping. When a student talks in class, he/she is interrupting the learning process, because it is disruptive, where when you sleep in class, many teachers will think that there might be a problem, and be encouraging to help you out.

http://community.sparknotes.com/2011/10/10/ask-a-teacher-when-students-sleep-in-class                               This Article strictly addresses sleeping in class, without regaurd to talking. The article is written by a weathered teacher, who has a lot of experience in the teaching field. What I thought was very strange is that he doesn't describe it as a problem of direspect. 'Mr. Toche,' the author of the article, more focuses on the 'why' the student is sleeping, and less of the 'that' the student is sleeping. In other words, and it is actually stated this way in the article, teachers should view sleeping as less disrespectful, and try to find out the reason for which said student is sleeping, for there could be a serious problem/reason for it.          Personally, I feel as though the more-often-than-not reason that students sleep in class, would be because they stay up late on Social Medias, and get borred during class time, and that is coming from a student who constantly sleeps in class.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081013154427AA8L1Q7                           The above link will take you to Yahoo! answers. Somebody asked why you shouldn't sleep in class, and then went on to state that they had gotten in trouble for it. The 'Best Answer, as chosen by voters' was, "it's rude." This tells us that it is very rude to talk in class. Rude and disrespectful are synonymous, in numerous ways, so I feel that this supports my theory, that most people will view talking as more disrespectful. I’m starting to get this fear that it won’t even be a competition, and Talking over the teacher will win as the more disrespectful one, easily.