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re: Idaho School District Shuts Down Cell Phone Use

Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:49 am to
Posted by xxTIMMYxx
Member since Aug 2019
17562 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 10:49 am to
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Some schools don’t even allow high schoolers to have cell phones on them at all. Now that is BS, it’s 2022


And somehow all these schools will outperform everyone
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
66046 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:27 am to
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Students taking pictures and videos of student outfits and rating them on Tik-Tok


Sorry but this sounds hilarious
Posted by SantaFe
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
7831 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 11:52 am to
Back when I was a teacher I had one student who carried 3 smart phones .

One year a male student asked me what kind of "outfit" I was getting for Easter. He became angry with me when I told him only women wear "outfits" .

Sidenote: The high school where I taught, the students would schedule their fights on facebook via their phones daily.

Now these dummies were not too smart. If I was in school today I could run a profitable business by taking photos of a math/science/whatever test and selling those to other dummies.
Posted by High C
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Member since Nov 2012
60896 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 12:09 pm to
Here are just a few of the cell phone problems I’ve had during class in the last week:

1) Three students caught cheating on a test trying to Google answers on their phones.

2) Students running internet on their chromebook through their cell phone’s hotspot to avoid monitoring on Go Guardian, which is a tool that allows teachers to see what is on each student’s screen.

3) Students using Bluetooth earbuds to listen to music from their phones while I’m actively giving instruction. Call on one of them to answer a question, and they have no idea what you asked.

Yes, I could spend all my time trying to take their phones. Do it and you get attitude from the students and most of their parents. If they do decide to give the phone up without being sent to the office, they get it right back at the end of the day.

ETA: these are 7th graders.
This post was edited on 3/27/22 at 12:34 pm
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122046 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 12:18 pm to
I bet if a kid did something and the teacher took their phone away the parent would be up there raising 3 kinds of hell.

If I was in charge, I wouldn't allow them on campus. Not because I am an old out of touch bastard, but because I think kids should be able to live without having their phones on them.

And teachers would only be allowed to use them in a certain part of school.. Teachers lounge, teachers bathrooms, and anywhere in case of an emergency.

When I was in school and a teacher took something away from you IF they gave it back it would be at the end of the year. Teachers used to take the frick out of some walkmans (yes I could still listen to walkmans although I wasn't a man who couldn't walk.. save you idiots time from trying to make a joke).

I let a dude borrow my The Chronic CD and he had his CD headphones listening to it on class and got it taken away. I was so pissed, but I went to that teacher and told her that I let him use my CD and told her that he promised he wouldn't listen to it in class. I told her some bullshite and she gave it to me like a week later.

Plus, I don't think kids should have the ability to record shite at school. If a teacher calls them worthless frick sticks they shouldn't get fired over it so if they can't record it there is no proof. They just have to deal with getting called a worthless frick stick.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
19920 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 12:49 pm to
Rightful so.

The students are the ones that did this to themselves.

When you do stupid shite, there are consequences
Posted by Allister Fiend
Member since Jan 2016
1059 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 2:05 pm to
As a former hs admin......good luck with all of this. It’s not so much battling kids as it is parents.
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
30029 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 2:06 pm to
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So, if a kid brings a Boom Box, you can’t make them not have and play it in the classroom?



Let’s consider the size of the items. When you go to pick up a kid’s phone and they put it in their pocket, then what? Are you going to stick your hands in a pocket to dig it out? That’s how you lose your job. Sure, you can send the kid out, call admin. That accomplishes nothing in the long term, especially when the parents get pissed at you.
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
43106 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 2:14 pm to
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Again, 3/4 of the problems in schools is because parents can’t cut the fricking umbilical cord. And then want to blame the district.



Exactly.

And when the kid starts failing because they're playing with their phones instead of paying attention in class, those same parents will blame the school and teachers.

We live in a culture of people who don't take responsibility for anything. It's sickening.
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
43106 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 2:16 pm to
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What if a kid says he/she doesn’t have a phone to put in the shoe caddy? You going to search them? What if half the class says they don’t have a phone to put in the caddy?


If they start using their phone during class, then they were lying and their phone should be confiscated.

If they don't use their phone during class, then mission accomplished anyway.
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
43106 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 2:21 pm to
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Yes, because grandma or someone is dying and they need to get in touch with me.


Call the main office!

Your kid is in class. They can't just take your call during a lecture and leave the room. What's wrong with you (and people who think like you)?

frick!
Posted by tigger4ever
Member since Apr 2021
1488 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:44 pm to
I was being sarcastic. I was a teacher in a high school and this was one excuse among many that students would give you. For the ones that don’t see a problem with letting them have a phone in class you know that they can take pictures of tests and things and send them around in class and to other students about to take tests.
This post was edited on 3/27/22 at 3:45 pm
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
60896 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:46 pm to
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I was being sarcastic.


Gotcha
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
30029 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:48 pm to
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If they start using their phone during class, then they were lying and their phone should be confiscated.


And when the kid quickly puts the phone back into his or her pocket? Are you going to grope around? Send the kid to the office, fine, but you assume the admin will always have your back and solve the situation to where it doesn’t happen again.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
60896 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:52 pm to
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solve the situation to where it doesn’t happen again.


Currently impossible.
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
43106 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 3:59 pm to
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I was being sarcastic.


Thank you. It's hard to tell noawadays.
Posted by nola tiger lsu
Member since Nov 2007
7352 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 6:46 pm to
I dont have kids but I have nieces and nephews, honeslty assumed this was a rule everywhere. How is it not?
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
115124 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 6:49 pm to
Good
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103818 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 6:56 pm to
Phones aren’t allowed on campus at my daughter’s middle school. Apparently some members of the community are posting Tik Tok videos of fights in the bathrooms.


HS allows them, however. Explain that one.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
74677 posts
Posted on 3/27/22 at 6:59 pm to
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I let a dude borrow my The Chronic CD and he had his CD headphones listening to it on class and got it taken away. I was so pissed, but I went to that teacher and told her that I let him use my CD and told her that he promised he wouldn't listen to it in class. I told her some bullshite and she gave it to me like a week later.
I had a teacher who gave it to me too.

Not out of pity though.
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