By Quentin Monasterial
Courier Staff Reporter
For many people, music seems to be an essential aspect of a human diet, one of the constituents in those food pyramids that pediatricians seem to have both a plethora of and fetish for.
However, hearing one’s music played unusually loud is, speaking in terms of food, gross.
At James Logan High some students like listening to their music–not from their earphones or headphones, but from their bluetooth speakers, of which serves the sole purpose of being loud.
Some students–actually, most students–aren’t very fond of this fact. They often feel that these students’ bluetooth speakers are “annoying” and “obnoxious,” ranging from succinct backlash to thorough criticisms.
Taylor Turner, a sophomore at James Logan, said, “When people blast their music, they are under the assumption that I want to listen to the music they are listening to, as if the world revolves around them. Not only is it distracting, but it is annoying.”
Another sophomore, Michelle Yi, agrees: “It is annoying because they disrupt classes and people and the music is abnormally loud.”
Like in any situation, there are some who take a more neutral stance in the situation. Andrew Trinh, a senior, said that he didn’t feel too inconvenienced by the clamorous music, it never really bothered him.
Ms. Cross, the teacher who brought up this issue revolving around speakers in the first place via email, said that “it hasn’t really been an issue for [her] personally.”
So why did she bring it up? Why did she send out an email regarding the speakers?
What caught her attention and drove her to ask about it was other students’ complaints and concerns regarding the use of speakers to play music really loud.
As of recent, Logan Live has been announcing that preventative measures are going to be put into place to prohibit the use of speakers. This policy might have already existed in the first place, according to Ms. Cross.
So, as of now students are not able to listen to their speakers on campus. If students are caught using speakers, the speakers will treated as if they are any other unauthorized personal electronic device: confiscated and returned to only a parent or guardian.
Trinh commends this policy, however, despite his indifference to the use of speakers in the first place. It can easily be deduced that many other students would feel the same way about this policy considering that Turner and Yi were only two of many complaining students.
