As a teacher, the problem with a "cell phone ban" is that it is almost completely impossible to enforce. Trying to ban them just sets up the school admin for meaningless/impossible battles. Lots more wrong with schools right now than kids texting each other during class.
Should cell phones/ipods, etc be banned from use during school?
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As a teacher, there are two sides involved here. No, there is no reason a student HAS to have a phone in the room. It is nice for them when they do little things like I had students today use them for (create a drawing of how to represent something) so they had a model to look at while they drew. At the same time, I have a lot of students get extremely belligerent and upset when I tell them to put their phones away during class because "I"m just texting my parents. Stop being a ****."
The easiest answer is to just not let them out at all since it isn't a necessity, but parents have complained that they have to call the office to get ahold of their kid as well. Both parents and kids don't realize how disruptive it is to have a student in the room being defiant because their parent called.
The easiest answer is to just not let them out at all since it isn't a necessity, but parents have complained that they have to call the office to get ahold of their kid as well. Both parents and kids don't realize how disruptive it is to have a student in the room being defiant because their parent called.
Parents anymore are extremely pathetic. Your kids in ******* school...what could possibly be so important that you need to have their immediate attention?
Since I'm a HS teacher, most of the time it's to tell them that they're at the school to pick them up so that the waiting time is minimized. It makes sense, but that's the reason I hear the most often.
Some good, some not so much. Encyclopedias are not the only books in a library, though. And I would still put more faith in Grey's or Bergey's than I would Web MD.
So parents text/call kids in the middle of class to tell them that they are there, and the kids can just then walk out?
And as I mentioned before, a voice mail works. The parents know the classtime hours. Why disrupt the last ten minutes of the class with needless "I'm waiting out front for you, Susie" calls?
A question I posed earlier... Assuming you are not still a student, when was the last time you went to the library for research? When did you go to the library to look something up? Not looking for a book to read for pleasure but with the purpose of researching an answer for a question.
Why are kids so pathetic that they can't handle the responsibility of having a phone in their pocket during class? You're going to have to let them make their own decisions in life at some point. You can't take everything away that is a potential harm/distraction.
No, they can't just walk out. They do call/text during class to tell them to check out of the building during class though. That's what I was getting at.
I'm not defending the reasoning, just stating why it's hard to police. Personally, I only have an issue if a student is using the phone while I'm talking. If they want to look something up pertaining to class, or ask me to use it during class and I agree to it, I have no issue.
I get what you're saying, but fact is, kids are not responsible. Hell, I'm 30 and only really became responsible 5 years ago. If a school can have a policy where cell phones can be kept in pockets with good results, then I see no problem letting them have them in their pockets. Fact of the matter is, if they are in the classroom, there will be problems. There is an easy solution to that.
Also, this is not a kid thing. I know of a lot of peoples whose employers do not let cell phones be brought into meetings, etc.
Well Ive been out of high school for 11 years, and don't have kids yet, but I fail to see any good reason why a parent would need a kid to check out of the building during class.
Schools should be able to ban their use during school hours as they see fit.
We technically had a no cell phone durng school hours policy in my high school for a bit. (Though most teachers didn't really care in passing periods.) They later changed it to just banning it during classes. I didn't mind either rule at the time. (We were allowed to have phones, they just could not be taken out)
We technically had a no cell phone durng school hours policy in my high school for a bit. (Though most teachers didn't really care in passing periods.) They later changed it to just banning it during classes. I didn't mind either rule at the time. (We were allowed to have phones, they just could not be taken out)
My parents would call the elementary school for doctors appointments or give me a note before school, and I would have to go to the office to get a written permission slip to leave a class at a specific time during the day to go wait for my parents to pick me up. If my parents could let me know via text that they were waiting for me, it would have potentially minimized the amount of class time missed.
Jesus ****** how old are some of you? Who cares if a 18 year old has their friggen phone out in between classes. People constantly complain school isnt preparing kids for college and the real world...news flash, babying them more isnt gona help/
But you're still going to have to go to the office for the permission slip, etc. Sure, it might cut down on the amount of time you would be waiting for your parent, but if your parents are responsible enough to make sure they are there when they say they will be there and not keep you waiting, it shouldn't be a problem.
