Note to All Professors:

Please respect the 'bell.'  I respect you and your work enough to show up before the class begins.  At the same time, I expect that you will respect my work and time.  I need the 10 or so minutes to walk across campus and be on time for my next class.  If you keep me past the bell, I will likely be late for my next meeting, putting into motion a string of disrespectful events:

• My teacher might feel that I disrespected him in showing up for class late.
• My fellow classmates will be disrupted/distracted by my showing up late for class.
• My grade will suffer, as tardiness compounds and lowers one's grade as would an absence.
• etc.....