re: Why don't all schools prohibit cell phones in classrooms? I read an article that indicated

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The 2nd time they take it for the rest of the school year.

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I’d just go buy them another one

They do. But teachers are pussies and “pick their battles”

Also, admins don’t hold teachers accountable or don’t really punish students when teachers do their jobs.

I make all mine put them in their front of the class ( I put mine there also) and that’s how I take role. Students figure it out after a couple of days and their is no battle after that.

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In this case yes. They’re kids. shite like this going to happen. Taking someone’s personal property all year is pretty authoritative

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I have the urge to be snarky here but will withhold. This is not authoritarianism since there is a clear remedy and that is to not allow your child to bring the phone to school after the first incident.

As for the idea that this is going to happen because they are kids, it didn't happen once to my two and they did have cell phones they took to school with them.

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Just wow. You send your kids to private school to parent them so you don’t have to. Not because of the education they’re getting

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You really need to learn to read and comprehend better, rather than interjecting your own opinions into what others say. But perhaps you feel the duty of a parent is to put their kids in a place that will undermine their values.

There are a multitude of reasons a person may decide to take their kids out of public school and I would wager the bulk of them are not primarily the educational content of the two schools. That doesn't mean education is not part of the criteria, just not the driver for the move.

I sent them to a school that reflected my values better than the public schools did so I wouldn't have to work to undo the social morays being constantly preached to them and where the religious values I have would be openly talked about without fear of repercussions.

The school they went to produced kids as well prepared for college as the public schools, probably better. Overall the school they attended outperformed the local public schools in testing criteria when my kids were there.

In college, when I had to attend athletic study hall, the GA in duty would confiscate all of our phones at the beginning of the period, we could get our phones back when we were leaving.

More high schools should implement something like that. When students walk in class, they drop off their phone in a box. If a student refuses or lies about it dropping it in the box, and they are later caught using that phone, then they face further disciplinary action.

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prohibit cell phones in classrooms

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My son was in high school 25 years ago. I never understood why the school would let kids bring their phones to school much less in the classroom

Because students will fight a teacher if they try and take the phone

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I have the urge to be snarky here but will withhold. This is not authoritarianism since there is a clear remedy and that is to not allow your child to bring the phone to school after the first incident.

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There’s a clear remedy to obstructive people in Russia and chine too. I’m guessing you have no problem with that?

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You really need to learn to read and comprehend better, rather than interjecting your own opinions into what others say. But perhaps you feel the duty of a parent is to put their kids in a place that will undermine their values.

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Are you retarded? We’re on a message board. What else am I supposed to interject other than my own opinion? And I should learn to read? What else had you said before this other than you sent your kids there for more values than education?

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I have the urge to be snarky here but will withhold. This is not authoritarianism since there is a clear remedy and that is to not allow your child to bring the phone to school after the first incident.

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There’s a clear remedy to obstructive people in Russia and chine too. I’m guessing you have no problem with that?

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Nice strawman because that is exactly the same. People in China can simply decide to go to another country when they see what they have to agree to.

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You really need to learn to read and comprehend better, rather than interjecting your own opinions into what others say. But perhaps you feel the duty of a parent is to put their kids in a place that will undermine their values.

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Are you retarded? We’re on a message board. What else am I supposed to interject other than my own opinion? And I should learn to read? What else had you said before this other than you sent your kids there for more values than education?

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I said education was not the primary reason I chose to move them from a public to a private education setting. You somehow inferred that meant I did it so I would not have to parent and said as much in your statement. You should certainly express your own opinion but that is not the same as attacking someone because you choose to be obtuse when reading what they say.