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Message: [QUOTE="MD#12Fan, post: 3795340, member: 8636"] I respectfully believe setting up rules and enforcing them should be easy. I am a classroom teacher and the easiest thing I can do is institute a rule, such as "no gum chewing". How simple is that? Where is the gray with that? (personally, I never asked for that, because I felt that I "had bigger fish to fry") Now, what happens when you have the rule, but you don't enforce it. Newsflash: they chew gum. I'd argue that's what happens with these rules like palming and maybe traveling. All they have to do is enforce the rules on the books. From my coaching and playing experience, what happens is that officials have "points of emphasis" from time to time in order to get things back on track. Like the wishy-washy teacher saying, "guys, no more gum chewing". Last point: if a rule is too hard to explain and enforce, then it needs to change. Rewrite the doggone rule. So, as a teacher, rather than arguing with adolescents when I needed to be teaching them, I decided not to have a gum chewing rule. Palming??? I also think one has to ask, why do we have the rule to begin with. I think in hoops it's about maintaining no unfair advantages between players. For example: verticality, hand-checking, pushing, grabbing, traveling. With teaching IMO it's about the children's safety and whether the classroom is a place in which learning can occur. Gum? Who cares? [/QUOTE]