You realize you don't have to do work in class to get a passing grade. No pictures needed for me to understand. School for me is not a learning environment, thusforth making it hard to concentrate on some of the material being learnt. I can't sit next to someone I know and not make conversation with them. Its just my nature. I've tried to fight talking but I fail hideously. I study outside of school. I understand that the government is paying 6,000$ per student to be enrolled in a public school. None of those 6,000$ has gone to waste. I've LEARNT all the things the teacher has taught. You don't need to really do stuff in class to DO GOOD IN SCHOOL. If tax money was spent for people to sit in class and do stuff, then i'd be totally against talking in class, but since its paid for the teachers to teach, rather than for the time it takes for you to do stuff, then I agree with his situation. Not wholeheartedly, but against TA's. They're useless, and probably use more than 6,000$ of your beloved tax money.
The people who are saying "Goodbye tax money" in this post probably haven't read the whole post over, and are just posting for the sake of posting. If posting a message used tax dollars, yours would probably be the TA's of the message boards.