EACH STUDENT IS AT WORK

I have students which do not want to complete assignments.  They put their head down, mess with their cell phone and continually ask to leave the classroom for the bathroom, locker or anywhere but where there is an assignment.  I tell them school is a student's work.  Students laugh at me and retort, 'School is not their work.'  I challenge each one.  I relate to them if I call their Mother right now on the telephone and report their child is refusing to do the assignment and does not turn in the assignment, the Mother will want to speak with their child.  I ask the student, what shall their Mother say to them if I put the two together on the telephone?  The Mother always says, 'Get your WORK done.'  She will say, 'Turn in your WORK.'  So now to each student I ask, "Where did your Mother send you each morning when you left to go to school?"  The student went to WORK.