What does normal mean?

This question has been egging me on for a while and I think I am able to connect this to my SLA post to clear any problems with the previous post.

First I want to get technical, The definition of "Normal" is "conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected : it's quite normal for puppies to bolt their food normal working hours." Now knowing the actual definition, provided by Websters dictionary, I can go on to speak about my point of view of what normal means.

To be normal in this situation (at school) is to be able to control ones self and to hold ones standard to what process and rules the school has to offer. So why is my school, one of the schools that has students not act normal? There is a difference between having fun in school and making yourself look absolutely despicable. Some ways people accomplish this is by chasing each other around a room screaming at the top of their lungs.

If you come into a school where the principal picked students who run around and act childish between the ages of 14-17 makes me very wary. Why is this my problem or why should I even care? I am in this school to succeed myself and no one else right?

Even if that statement is 100% true, the fact that I have been chosen to go to this school and come into school everyday to hear the same exact annoyances around the class room is hard to deal with. I feel that I cant succeed at the best of my ability, if the teacher makes a joke that a second grader wouldnt think was funny or the students who talk at the same exact level in which it seems their heads are up in the clouds. I just dont understand why these students cannot be normal? Why cant they not run around and act as the adult they should be. Its about maturity and if most of the school is immature at this point, how is Lehmann going to be able to help them in college.

In high school you should be able to learn a basic understand of your identity from the community, in which a diverse social setting would make this happen. Yes, harassment is hard to deal with, every one has gotten it one time or another but the thing is that these same exact people that get it, choose to change the immature act to be able to gain society's approval. There is an understanding that you have to think this way in our society for multiple reasons. College students will not put up with immature kids playing yugioh cards or screaming at the top of their lungs, especially if these students do not have ADD or any other problem in which it conflicts themselves. To be in a school where I am vastly overpowered by the usual 10-15% of these students in other schools bugs me and I would love to know the reason behind this from Lehmann. Yet again I have to say this man is brilliant but to try and have a school where 98% are immature and running around will not help students in the long run to learn new ideas and to gain their identity in a way where society will approve of it.

So to finally close on this subject, to be normal is to be in society's approval and in this case it is one of the most serious things you have to work on. The identity of yourself in a working and social environment. To be normal is what society and common sense shouts at, you don't need to be running around or screaming like children at these ages. Thats what middle school is for and yet in middle school it builds a basic character for you to gain in approval in high school. As long as interviews wont allow jeans and lots of tattoos, then normal is this way and it has been this way for 100's of years.