Online games curse for students

I stood at the blackboard, chalk in hand, poised to guide the class through an vocabulary exercise when once again I heard the snoring of Lucifer emanating from the back of the classroom. As I continued to teach, he continued to snore with his head planted squarely in the crease of his textbook with a black hoody covering his greasy head.

Luckily for me, Lucifer was not some force of evil but rather just the online name of one of my students who had spent the whole night in the confines of a smoky Internet bar playing a marathon session of the widely popular World of Warcraft.

I walked to the back of classroom in an effort to wake Lucifer but it was in vain. Every time he opened his eyes he would quickly fade back into his dreams of orcs and elves.