About two or three weeks ago, we had speaking practice in ELL class. The topic was "If you can change or make rule for your society, what rule would you change?" Everyone was thinking it only as class-speaking practice, but I wasn't. I had been thinking about this idea since like a month ago. I don't remember when it was exactly, but someone was talking about negative effects and little bit of unfairness of our rule of punishment. I think our rule about demerit is double dipping because we get demerit and also have to do work-crew. I mean, I know we need punishment, but if we need a punishment, I think it has to be either get demerit, or doing work crew, not both. So, the rule I suggested was this: If person gets demerit, that person should get two choices. First choice is get proper amount of demerit depends of what that person does and keeps that demerit. If the person chooses this choice, he (or she) can't efface his demerit if he has already made his decision. However, he won't have work-crew. But other punishment (such as room promise, campus promise) will still happen to him if its needed, and that is going to be depends on what problem he has done. Second choice is do at least eight hours of work-crew for each on demerit, and get rid of demerit. So if the person who got 4 demerits chooses this option, that person will have to do 32 hours of work crew to get rid of it. Or keep six hours of work crew but makes it harder. After that person is done with work-crew, the person will be free. I think both choices has advantages and disadvantages, and it is going to be really hard to change the rule that has been for a long time in school, but I think if we need it, we have to change it. I've seen a lot of people complaning about it and also work-crew dosen't really "work".. It will really depends on consequence but I think it's an ok idea to make people to make less problem. I have more detail ideas about it but don't want to make this blog boring. So, thank you for reading it!