I managed to make it to my pension (22 years). This is only one of many many issues. American public education is completely wrecked. There are barely any teachers left, and those are just revolving door Teach for America Kids. I would strongly advise whoever is left to quit now before you damage your health.
@@smrtzttspanishenglishtutor67 we use to in the early 2000s. If you had your phone out it got locked up immediately and after like a three strike system your parents had to pay a fine to come get it. I’m positive that some schools still do this. They just need to implement the policy in such a way that would work for the kids and the parents. But the parents can’t be acting like kids too.
What's destroying anything is inattentive parenting. Creating laws that force women to be parents. Women that have no right to be parents when they shouldn't be parents. Women and men who have no education on parenting. In cities that have no jobs to support having children. But meanwhile they insist on making it hard for you to prevent getting pregnant. It's uncalled for it's ridiculous. Let's also not forget the lack of sexual education in schools
The kids can't even fail. The schools bump up their grades just enough to pass and shuffle them on to the next grade even though they aren't prepared. I've heard multiple stories from teachers about the school administration instructing teachers to massage students grades just enough to keep them moving along. It's a disgrace.
This guy wasn’t even able to teach science because he was too busy trying to teach them life skills and that’s our job as parent. Parents are a huge part of this problem, if not all of it.
If your kids weren’t addicted to their phones and actually paid attention then this wouldn’t happen. You should appreciate that there still teachers who want to be engaging with their students. He could’ve just failed them or let them fall through the cracks. If you weren’t aware the U.S. has a high rate of illiteracy in kids across the country. So yes this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
I received my first phone in 5th grade and it was a Samsung Intensity II nothing but a glorified normal phone, I didn’t receive my first smart phone until I was a junior in HS… preferably I prefer a normal button phone now as a primary, the good days of less distractions
@@geordiejones5618 Yes I do use my cell phone more than 6 hrs a day. I have to. I use it for my job. I send and receive emails all day, and use my GPS to get from job to job. What I said was that I was glad I was able to grow up NOT having to use a phone. Life was better without it as a kid growing up! These kids today are all messed up and have no personality because they’re on their phones all day doing nothing except wasting time.
Yep, tried to watch a movie the other day with my sister, close to impossible she was missing half of it because of the phone. Went on a car ride with my brother the other day and it was like I was alone in the car
Present for what, exactly? Paying attention to strangers? Witnessing unimportant events? What about walking down the street, besides not being hit by a car or bumping into people, requires absolute attention?
HOLD UP!! The mom is saying she has 2 teenage boys who are on their phones constantly. Uh, ma'am, that means you are part of the problem!! TAKE THE PHONES AWAY FROM YOUR BOYS!! And why isn't the school board doing anything to help the teachers? This is insanity!!
For real. That mother was talking about how her teenage sons are on their phones all the time, yet she apparently does nothing about it ?? Great parenting
@@zoehicks880a lot of kids become physically violent when you try to remove devices. It’s not simple . You think you flip a switch but parenting is influenced by culture and outside forces.
I don’t understand why kids and teenagers can’t put their electronics down for a day, especially kids, why would a kid want to be inside the house all day? They should be playing outside
How about no phone allowed during school hours? We have lived thousands of years without cell phones. It's not that hard. No phones allowed during school hours!
Depending on your state, teachers can no longer take the phones as it's considered personal property. Many kids know the phone can't be seized no matter how much they use it. This started because of cases where kids had their phone taken, held, and they needed it after school hours and were left stranded. Teachers can only hold it till the end of class. And if it's stolen the school has to pay for the phone in full. It's a huge liability to take phones. It's on the parents to teach them moderation. But do many parents give up mentally on raising their kids. Using technology because they're lazy.
@@Belle2550BS. The school districts can make a rule. We somehow made it home without any cell phones in the world. I’ve been to concerts where phones are banned. If a band can demand no phones at their concert, school districts can do the same.
@@Belle2550 It’s a little bit more complicated than that. Students and teachers are under the jurisdiction of the school board. Therefore, if the board rules in favor of an anti-phone policy, then students and teachers will have to follow it.
@@alextownsend6662 It sounds like you haven't been in a public school in a long time. @Belle2550 was exactly right about the situation in the schools. What is the consequence for adults if they refuse to stop using a phone in a concert? They get kicked out. Schools can't kick students out, and if they did, most of the time the students would like that. They won't stop. Kids also aren't legally responsible for their actions, but adults are. Adults face consequences for breach of contract, but there are no consequences for students if they don't do the right thing and they know it. It's up to the parent to impose consequences, and too many of them won't.
@@thefastcommenter7774 The school has a phone along with employees/volunteers/students who can notify the student immediately. It's hard to imagine, but people had ways of communicating before cell phones.
Sorry we are too busy being tax slaves. We don't get summers off, tenure, and a nice fat pension. I worked all through COVID, and watched the teachers union take a two year vacation. They would get on zoom, for like an hour in the morning. Then just ghost. Property taxes didn't go on a two year vacation though did it... Like your name, no one cares about the teachers, they should work harder. Stop voting, for Democrats.
I think it’s the parents fault for raising such undisciplined children. Wait, it’s actually both sets of the parents parents fault for not raising children who know how to raise children properly. Wait, clearly the 4 sets of parents parents parents are responsible for not teaching their children how to raise children that know how to raise children properly. Wait…
Yeah, as if parents can do anything in the face of corporate power to turn our kids into little consumers. Don't blame the parents. That's a cop out. Blame the shittier and shittier capitalist society that has been a huge part of the process of humans becoming increasingly alienated from each other, from nature, from themselves, from meaningful work, from meaningful arts, from a meaningful life, period. Capitalism is to blame, but it's such a big machine, and we feel so defenceless in the face of it that we've become apathetic and choose to find some other cause of this world going to hell in a hand basket. The world is becoming unliveable (And people more and more unlovable) because of capitalism, insatiable greed, and empty materialism.
This is what your people chose to do with their head start ie cheap and free labor. Don't be sad. It's over with... Now the youth has to fight 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇩🇳🇪🇻🇪 but the black kids are too ignorant and don't care to do it so it will be the masters', overseers', and politicians', children doing the heavy work. Sheesh.
During my career in corrections, I saw many newly hired correctional officers get fired almost immediately for bringing their phones inside the facility.
Doesn't work. If you collect them, then there will always be a few kids who try to sneak them and cause disruption. And then if you try to use harsher measures with them, parents complain.
@@kbanghart So you start with detention and then suspension, c'mon people WTF? These kids aren't in charge the adults teachers are and the kids need to finally understand that. What the hell happened to the old way school was? Do your work or suffer the consequences. We got detention for chewing fucking gum because it was a distraction, this is fucking crazy!
I did and think it’s bullshit. Learn to involve what students know and like. Adapt to the current generation. Make class fun and interesting (which you should’ve already been trying to do no matter when you taught). Cell phone addiction is not something that happens to everyone. It still requires an addictive personality like any other addiction. Your students aren’t all addicted to their phones. They are mostly bored.
That shit dead, if they're teens already there's no way you can now set a boundary. Only thing you can do is not pay the phone bill but they'll still have WiFi
Nobody is going to be left to teach these disrespectful kids. They stay up all night on their phones, get 2 hours of sleep then come in and sit on their phones all day. Give them a laptop to work? They just play video games. Teachers spend way too much time trying to get kids to stop.
Administrators can support a ban all they want but can they ENFORCE it is more important! I teach at a Charter School and we confiscate the phones as soon as students come in the door! I used "confiscate" on purpose because many students try to sneak them in anyway. And now students have started getting smart watches to circumvent having their phones taken. This teacher is 1000% right! Finally, it's interesting how every societal ill is supposed to be handled by the schools! You jump right to attacking administrators with ZERO mention of irresponsible parenting!
It’s the parents fault, they wont support a phone ban and overtesting has caused kids to check out. They cant learn in part necause it’s a testing system Not education
@@-greentoad BECAUSE They are designed to be addictive. They should Not be given to children AT ALL! This world would be a much better place. When my children were in school, cell phones were Not allowed at school. Teacher’s confiscated any phone that was in their sight. Sooo I agree they shouldn’t be in class. Addictive substances should Never be given to children. We don’t give them alcohol or cigarettes do we?
Or you could just treat them like an adult and make them responsible for their learning and smartphone usage. When you are 30 no one is going to tell you to stop using your phone, or your employer can just fire you. You, as a teen, made the choice to use your phone.
Sounds great but what parent is going to sign up for that with school shootings being our reality due to the insane gun lobby and braindead gun loving republicans
He has good intentions but his attitude and tone are out of touch. To be effective you need to know how to meet people where they are at and engage in a positive way. Doesn't seem like that s a skillset he excels at.
To the parent who said she "understands his frustration because her kids are on their phones all the time..." Did she not make the connection? Get your kids flip phones.....
To go off of the teacher's drug analogy, when parents take away their phone, they will either buy an older model smart phone, get one from their friends or even steal one. Blacklisting apps on the wifi level might help, but kids can still use cell data and its harder to limit that.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT maybe a minimalist phone? It can look like a smart phone be it only allows you to call and do some other things but not really the internet of social media
NZ actually has a functioning government I imagine. Not perfect but decent. The US is a shit show … do you see what the Republicans do day in and day out
Interested to hear how well this is working. They have tried this in Japan. Wakayama Prefecture was one of the first to ban students from bringing cell phones to schools. It did it in 2002. But even today about one of third of Wakayama students bring their phones to school.
Somebody would sue the teacher and the school district for "violating their precious little rights". America is self-imploding and doesn't even know it. Common sense and logic have become foreign concepts in the U.S.
Sorry, we don't take advise from other countries. In fact, suggesting such is the surest way to doom an Idea. Tho, I will admit that some of us have taken an interest in fascism. But then, we'll declare it was our idea anyway.
I think that’s an amazing idea… as long as you can trust the school officials. Because if you don’t, the very last thing you want to do is leave your kid with them, without the ability to contact you. But that’s how i want my kids school to be, no phones
Today is my first day of retirement… 27 years in public education… 61 yrs old. When leaving the district where I taught for 17 years, the exit form asked: “Reason for leaving”: My answer: “Phones.” But it’s more than that. It’s the behavior that goes along with the phones, and the distraction that leads to poor learning. Serious issue in a world of ever-expanding serious issues. As for me: I’m done. Two years earlier than I’d planned. Enough.
Yet 500,000 homeless ppl, no clean water for flint, monopolies in the Arizona housing market which has led to an affordability crisis, outdated infrastructure, and wages remain stagnant. He took his time to make this an issue equating phones to addiction rather than talking about Arizona’s decade long cuts to education, low teacher pay, high student to teacher ratios, and Arizona ranking among the last in education investment. 😂
People are feeding their emptiness and loneliness with their cell phones. Nobody talk to anybody anymore. Miss the good old days with neighbors stopping by for a cup of Coffee and children playing nearby on a sunny afternoon.
So true. It's amazing to me that I can drive buy a public park on a beautiful Saturday or Sunday afternoon and see no kids in the playground or using the sports fields. We've lost our way when children no longer play.
Me too. When I run into somebody I haven't seen in a long time at the grocery usually can't talk longer than 30 seconds until their phone rings. Conversation over. Most of the time the call is from a spouse or family member with some trivial matter and wanting to know how much longer before they will be home. I miss the good old days more every day.
There was a school who banned phones. They lock them up when students enter, and they get it back when they leave. At first there was pushback from students, but now the students are happier, they’re having more fun with friends since no one is glued to their phone, and their grades are improving. In case of emergency, the school has a phone system that can be used to call parents or 911. If a student needs an alarm for medical reasons, they make watches for that.
The watches are becoming a problem too. Kids will put their phones away, and then I see them fiddling w/ their smartwatches, because they're texting instead of doing class activities.
@@guccideltaco I’m not even talking about those smart watches. Digital watches still exist lol. And they make “smartwatches” for purely medical reasons. So no fun apps, but it tracks heart-rate, sets alarms for medicine, some even connect to glucose pumps. But definitely those smartwatches are like mini iPads on the wrist, I wouldn’t want those in my classroom either.
@@ryansmith4494 If you don't believe her, why would you believe her source? Google it for yourself. I just did. Took me two seconds to find that it was a school in Salt Lake city. (I think there are other schools, too.)
The most vocal parents won’t let their kids be disciplined. They’ll elect school boards that enforce no-consequence policies- and replace any tough administrators.
As a mathematics instructor, I brought this issue up to administration and as a school we implemented a no-phone use in classroom policy in the classroom, it worked wonders.
I just did a 3 day training seminar for work and I can’t tell you how many adults also cannot put their phones down for two minutes and pay attention to speakers or presentations. And none of it’s work related. It’s all texting and social media.
Your observation is spot on. This addiction is wide spread. I've watched city council meetings where the councillors brazenly ignore the citizens presenting on the given issue in question.
It was almost always work related for me. I took a few notes, texted a few coworkers about the schedule, texted back my boss. Not like I was watching youtube or something.
I remember kids used to get their phones confiscated for even using them at Lunch. But this was in the 2000s when cell phone were not popular yet, and only like half the kids had cell phones, and phones didn't even have internet. Now literally everyone has a cell phone.
I remember they would confiscate our phones and the parents had to come pick it up Oh boy I remember my old man yelling at me for making him leave work Never did that again.
I'm a millennial but still hated reading and studying, even though I never had a cellphone until I was 19. School has always been the most boring and annoying thing on Earth. But I still have a good GPA cuz society forces me to if I want to live.
@uscitizen1035, putting a cellphone in their children's hands isn't Irresponsible. If you teach them how to properly use it and teach them when to and when not to use it.
It is too much work to enforce this policy with 1000-2000 kids. It will never work and they know it so they allow it. Each day a kid shows up means money in their pocket. So a warm body is better than NO BODY
They try, but the parents get upset and demand the students get to have their phones or get upset when the phones are taken away and sent to the office.
I agree with you, though there's another issue: They can simply either go to where their friends live & use their Wi-Fi, or go to their school or to a public place & use their Wi-Fi connections on their phones as well. The simple solution, is to just take their phones away.
@@WizardOfWor sorry, I wasn’t clear - meant shut down the issue/situation entirely, not just the phone service. Referring to the parents being the ones in control and with authority here, so idk who they are complaining to and acting so helpless. Looking for someone else to fix their problems and parent their kids for them, I guess. 🤷♀️
You'd think. I ended up dealing with Children's and Family Services "explaining" to me that taking away my daughter's phone for misuse at 15/16 years old was a very devastating and extreme action that would isolate her "from the necessary connection to peers". My daughter's friends parents' also helped coach my daughter and supported her to rebel against me while showing "responsible parent faces" to CFS. They'd insist they have rules their kids follow, and then permit their kids to do whatever they wanted to avoid fighting (aka: parenting and disciplining reasonably). Today, my daughter hasn't graduated high school, can't secure work outside of the nightclub industry and can only commodify her youthful attraction. I totally blame it on all the people who wouldn't let me take a phone out of her hands for even 3 days, including her father who insisted on replacing her phone to be the favourite parent. I know this sounds whiny... But phone addiction is a real thing...and the problem is even if parents want to step in the gap and try to address the cause of the addiction, until now, it was considered near child abuse not to give a kid a phone and pay for it to be weaponized against healthy parenting and even ... teachers who want to educate.
Earlier this year I contacted a parent regarding their child’s constant cell phone use in class. Her response - her child denied “even taking out his phone, let alone using it and he was very upset over my accusation”. How do you combat that? Trust me, if a teacher is contacting you over an issue, they’ve already tried other methods to correct the behavior. Fast forward to a week ago, parent wants to know why the child is failing the quarter (grades have been posted for over a month); and would like extra credit for him. Sorry mom, but that’s a negative. Told her it’s because of the same issues I contacted her about earlier in the year….which she chose to ignore. Some parents are clueless.
@@wiiildfire no the parent is just delusional. Teachers do not have to "prove it," they are busy teaching . This isn't a law court. This is simple common sense. The parent is just a moron
you think a child can't get a hold of phone without parents? you're delusional ... a child will get a hold of phone with or without parents help. people like you are the problem, you have no common sense, you don't think. oh? huh? you didn't think about smokes, alcohol and drugs, did you? you see its literally against the law for a child to do any of those things, yet they get their hands on all 3. phones arent even illegal .. and you think kids wouldn't be able to get their hands on a phone if parents didn't buy one? you're delusional. a simple solution is to make a law that allows teachers to take or break kids phones when they're using them in class. THAT would be blunt and effective solution. stop cuddling dumb people and PUNISH them for being dumb, THAT is the solution. also fail them in class. if i was teacher, i'd fail anyone who i catch scrubbing on phone. instant fail. no excuses.
Like my mother used to say, she needs to pick up a book. Get ahead in her homework or projects, enter herself into little contests, intensely pursue a hobby, study then study ahead of her grade. Use school like the resource it is. There are so many other options better than joining in with her addicted peers.
I’m so tired of parents choosing to ignore the pleas of schools for them to stop buying these smartphones for kids. Parents could very easily just get kids a flip phone, but they act like the child’s world will fall apart without a small phone. Children have become ADDICTED to these phones and parents don’t care.
My daughter has a phone but I have parental controls on it and she has no social media apps. I won't allow her to have Tik Tok, Facebook, Snapchat etc. Phone us just used to call or text me if she needs to, that's it. Kids and young teens don't need social media, I'm glad my daughter doesn't complain about not having that.
while I agree KIDS should not be given cellphones, I think 13 year olds or even 14 year olds should be allowed since those are teenage years and by then the teenager should have enough maturity and hopefully, responsibility to use their phone, but parents should also monitor what their kid is doing online, not like a helicopter parent but just checking in to make sure their kid isn't talking to weird people/people they don't trust. Phones really are a distraction unless it's just for texting family members/friends, it would greatly help them focus on school than social media. I'm 16 years old and I know the very experience of being given a phone at an early age, it was harmful to me because my parents didn't give me restrictions or monitor what I was doing, that's the problem I'm noticing, I don't think phones should be banned forever, it's a privilege that needs to be earned. I wish I had the opportunity to earn my phone AND have it at an older age, I had no business having a phone at 8-12 years old, and if I did, I had no business having social media other than to use my phone to talk to family and friends. Phones are okay but RESTRICTIONS and MONITORING your child should be a MUST if you're going to give your child that freedom.
Parents start it. It sickens me when I see kids out in public, younger than 2, glued to a phone. Or kids holding their tablets going into restaurants. Back in the day we were handed small toys or books. At restaurants my brother and I loved the crayons and the activity pages where we'd do a few puzzles and interact with each other by making jokes about the pictures or something and use the back to pay tic-tac-toe or hangman.
Most of the problem is that parents don't care. The school can ask all day long and it will do nothing. The rest of the problem is that schools don't enforce it. Don't ask. Make the policy of no smartphones and then stick to it.
As my teacher have said "Im not expecting you to remember all of this , But I am teaching you to think" sadly most people are becoming zombies because of phone addiction
As an ex biology teacher, it is ridiculous to have kids on phones in a laboratory. Put the phones in the lab's refrigerator during class. Make the kids think. Or ignorance prevails.
Does it really matter though if they're just going to think that biological men can get pregnant anyway? All that work that high school teachers do gets undone in college.
As a former Biology teacher, I understand what he is going through. I believe all teachers get frustrated over this issue. You can tell he’s a dedicated teacher and how much this upsets him not being able to reach these kids. You feel defeated. I wish him well and hope he is able to find joy in his future job.
Were you allowed to fail students? My mother taught for many years at an underperforming school in Atlanta, and she was literally forced to curve grades, but curving grades and promoting students socially helped create and perpetuate the underperforming status of the school. In terms of this whole cell phone thing, if I were teaching, I would absolutely let students keep their phones, but I wouldn't reteach one single thing because of students playing on their phones, nor would I curve one single grade. Sometimes, people have to learn the hard way.
I hated it, but my mom was right when she had parental controls on my phone in high school. I could only use social media for a limited time each day, then had to figure out what else to do with my time. Parents just don’t want to parent anymore.
That’s one of the things we like about iPhones. They make setting limits really easy & they can be adjusted for specific situations, if the kid requests permission.
My husband’s friend said that his son’s high school are going to start charging parents $50 if their child is caught with their phone in class. They have to pay $50 and come pick up the phone. Not sure how I feel about that. Told his son if he has to pay $50 to get his phone back he won’t have a phone anymore
@@rebeccaa2433 I had that thought as well but I dunno 🤷🏼♀️ it’s also a private school so maybe because it’s in their contract when they sent out emails to the parents about it
Not sure how they’ll pull that off because it’s personal property. Too bad they can’t have cellphones jammed in the classroom but then it would also jam staff phones so they won’t do that. Don’t forget we adults are addicted too. I’m on mine right now (but I’m not at work or school)
@@CN45475bs, nothing to do with the principal, they can’t make laws without their education dept allowing it. It’s up to the education system or government putting this in place otherwise parents will cry discrimination or some other shit which no principal or teacher has the time or energy to deal with. The parents should stop giving them the devices in the first place but too many don’t know how to parent now.
@@Kaktus965 considering how many biologists this Country produces, yes it is a waste of time. Most of the Students are going into general labor. Go back to 8th grade graduation
In our schools we have a panel by the door with individual pockets where students must deposit their phones when entering the classroom. If a student is caught with their phone in class they get a week of detention. No talking and no phones in detention. There were a few weeks with a lot of kids getting detention but they quickly learned playing that game won’t fly. Treat children like children.
I concur, I'm a middle school math teacher in my 60's - this phone addiction is a real and growing problem. Some of my classes are made miserable when dealing with phone disruptions - so much wasted classroom time. The kids get used to the dopamine rush they get off being on their phones, some can barely function when their phone is taken away. Parents who give their kids phones are mostly trying to be their kids friends rather than being a parent and saying no. Young minds are defenseless against the siren song of being on their phone. I worked for a couple of years in a district that banned student phones - test scores went up at all levels. Many school boards are reluctant to have much of a policy against student phones because of student and parent outcry that they are needed for emergencies - while ignoring the education damage that is occurring from student phone addiction.
This is what your people chose to do with their head start ie cheap and free labor. Don't be sad. It's over with... Now the youth has to fight 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇩🇳🇪🇻🇪 but the black kids are too ignorant and don't care to do it so it will be the masters', overseers', and politicians', children doing the heavy work. Sheesh.
This is what your people chose to do with their head start ie cheap and free labor. Don't be sad. It's over with... Now the youth has to fight 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇩🇳🇪🇻🇪 but the black kids are too ignorant and don't care to do it so it will be the masters', overseers', and politicians', children doing the heavy work. Sheesh.
I find it funny that schools have no problem standing up to parents when it’s to push far left woke nonsense that has no place in schools, but when it comes to standing up to parents against cell phones their spines turn into gelatin. Also the emergency thing is nonsense. Kid is still allowed to have a phone on them, they just can’t use it in class. It’s extremely simple.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, before cell phones were a thing. Do people think emergencies didn't happen before cell phones? Yet somehow, we managed. I mentioned at work that I rarely take my cell when I go the grocery store over half a mile away (I walk there several times a week) or any other walkable errand. My co-workers were baffled and just aghast at the whole idea. "What if you have an emergency?" What emergency??? There are businesses every 20 feet and people driving by. People will do a lot of mental gymnastics to justify having their phone in their hand at all times.
@@SatipatthanaSakuraDragona Right?!!? I hitchhiked across the USA for years with no cell phone. I got into some seriously sketchy and dangerous situations, but still survived. I still don't have a cell phone and am grateful for it,
That’s so sad he felt he had to quit. 😢 The school principal or higher should have made a a mandatory student meeting to address this phone issue in classes. The teachers are too valuable to lose anyone because of no discipline to the students.
They don’t like to stand up to parents or fight battles that make them targets. They’d rather let the teachers fight the battles and wear the targets on their heads.
@@mtc-j9i You are absolutely right. My principal (elementary school) is a nice guy but a wuss. He won't confront anyone over a hard issue. He just throws his hands up and says it's out of his control.
I was an inner city educator for 30 years. You can’t even in your wildest dreams Imagine how difficult some parents can be and totally explains the whole Apple and how they don’t fall far from the tree thing.
@@nonnie8388Many people are parents on paper but not in practice. Too many people have kids and should’ve never had any better yet a rock garden. There should be an intelligence and common sense test in order for people to have kids.
Adults can demand an instant response from those within their social media circle just like kids. This social interaction sickness has only been around for a few years. We're just now seeing the effects.
I really feel the frustration of this teacher! My question? Where is the school Principal in all of this? It’s usually up to the school administrators to set the ground rules for banning cell phones in the classrooms…Not the overworked teachers! 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
It’s a numbers game. If word gets around that your school is too strict enrollment will drop and make the principal look bad. Sadly, kids know they are in control.
One, there are too many cell phone violations to reasonably enforce the rules for every single violation (this goes for the dress code as well). Two, even when cell phone rules are enforced, it's often the parents who complain and demand that the rules be more lax. Even a very supportive administrator can only do so much when it's them against hundreds of students and parents who refuse to listen or be helpful.
I agree. But try implementing that in a K-12 school. My last year teaching, phone use was banned, and students still used them. When teachers tried to do something about it, the teachers were blamed, and nothing done. It turned out to be a joke. Most kids had them and used them. The kids who followed the rules saw that the kids breaking the rules got away with it. Result? More kids with phones as the year went by. Eventually ban dropped. Weak discipline from parents and administration. I should add that about 80 percent of our students read below grade level. This was three years ago.
@@jonirving5606 ~ I suppose it's too late to institute the policy with this generation. We need a complete overhaul of our education system on so many levels. If only we could start over again, with the next generation, by teaching the basic Rs in grade school while disallowing the gadgets. If only...
I can't imagine the frustration teachers put up with nowadays trying to teach kids while they are on their phones, ignoring them, and their sense of entitlement is out of control.
@@bythewaybytheway67Parents are actually most of the problem. Can you imagine the sense of entitlement these kids will grow up with? The absent moral backbone? The incidence of depression? The contempt for authority and each other? The inability to think and debate? The easy prey for conspiracies and indoctrination? Adults with zero foresight and parental control are entirely responsible for this.
@@createone100 I personally want to be able to speak to my parent via text or call if an active shooter was around versus their last chat with me being the morning or night before
They can. If parents complain, let them. No cell phones means that the phone is off and in their bookbag or locker at all times. If there's some emergency the school has phones and the student would still have access to their cell. Letting parents dictate policy is rarely a good idea. Too many parents with conflicting ideas. Bending over backwards to try to live up to every parents' whim isn't even possible.
@@i-mbalmif an active shooter is in your school, do you *really* want a bunch of cellphones going off in your classroom where you're hiding? Think about it. It would be a neon sign saying come get me to the shooter. If there's an emergency you parents can still reach you. If it's a shooter emergency your parents can still get info from the district.
As a current biology teacher myself, I can say that there is no way to win this battle. These kids are hopelessly addicted to their phones..as addicted as they could be to heroin or meth. Except that this drug is even more insidious because it is socially "acceptable." Imagine a teen addicted to a certain drug, a drug that saps their attention and reduces their ability to focus longer than a couple of minutes. Now, imagine that many people in this teen's life are also addicted to this drug. All of this teen's friends are addicted to this drug. Some of this teen's teachers are addicted to this drug. Everyone in this teen's life (even those not addicted) use this drug, at least some of the time. This drug is available everywhere and is completely unregulated and without this drug , this teen can't easily maintain friendships, because all communication is done using this drug. And this teen's parents KNOW that this drug is hurting their child, but most of them are also addicted to this drug and they themselves are unable or unwilling to stop using this drug. Oh, and by the way, the people who make this drug don't give it to their kids, and their kids get sent to private schools where this drug is not allowed. What can we possible do to beat this?
Call the parents and tell them if they dont get their child’s severe phone addiction and blatant disrespect under control that they will be removed from class permanently
😂😂 really fossil. You’re equating phone usage to meth and heroine. What drugs are you smoking sir? It sounds like you’ve had some experience blowing the local washer to maintain your technological addiction. We should now establish Technology Anonymous. A 10 step program to help you beat your addiction to the screen. We can all sit around a circle and lament to our sponsors how insidious these screens are that we abandoned our families, abandoned our morals and values and hit rock bottom where we were doing things we’d never imagined because our addiction to the screen was so powerful not even hitting rock bottom could stop me from hurting my loved ones. Your equating this to actual people who suffer from addiction is merely insulting and makes a mockery out of it. So, stop trying to scapegoat your failures as a teacher on addiction but actually focus on the root cause which is the parents. Leave the parenting to the parents but if you couldn’t get a group of students to listen to you in your classroom then that’s a failure on you. Technology is a part of life now and nothing will stop it just like the car. Parents need to regulate their children. It’s that simple.
I taught high school science and phone addiction is crazy. I confiscated phones but it was always an issue. Kids sneaking on phones while I'm trying to teach. It's disrespectful. I didn't give my daughters phones until they were seniors in high school. Also, the laptops that school districts give students for class use are problematic. No research indicates that 1:1 technology improves academic performance. The kids are on their laptops in the middle of class watching movies. Yes, they know how to get around the firewall. Students aren't learning because we give them distractions. The school districts should have never allowed cell phones in the buildings. Call the front office if you need to relay a message to your child.
Good for the teacher! Let these kids learn the hard way what the future has in store for them. Also shame on all parents that are also distracted with phones and not being there for their children as needed. Addiction can be with anything.
Awesome. First hero to speak out. 16 weeks ago l stop all computer service and cell services for 24hs a week. Oh my God has my mental health improved. Sundays to Monday. ❤👍
A first grader with a phone? I can MAYBE see an iPad or the like for a 7 year old, but a phone? No. Unless it's like an old phone that his/her parents had and they replaced it, and the kid uses it to play games. When I was little I had a couple of "phones" like that. A few games, camera Google, RUclips, etc. couldn't call but it was fun thing to bring to the doctors office for the waiting room, or car rides.
Why would taking to the parents help? They were aware that their very young child was staying up all night every night doing that. That's borderline (if not actual) child abuse.
Unfortunately society is allowing businesses to forcefully make adults even have their cell attached to their hips at all times. So we can’t alone blame the kids. I miss the older times of landlines. I’m away from home, please leave a message.
@@Lava1964 I'm in my 40s. Same. I don't own a cell of any type. Not having one is actually preventing me from moving up at work, but I refuse to budge on the matter. I'll just have settle for being a mere "peon" and continue to have people make fun of me and give me weird looks for not having one.
Being on social media isn’t a life or death situation, though. There’s no need to be scrolling it while in class. Unless there’s an absolute true emergency, the phones aren’t necessary in school
I am glad that the teacher is prioritizing his health and his family. Self care is more important than someone else’s needs. Health is wealth. I had to leave the US for my self care. Bonne journée from the south of France.
I didn't get my first smartphone until I was 24 years old and that was my second phone. Prior, I had a slide phone when I was 14 years old but that broke down after a year and I didn't have a phone for a long time after that.
🙄 “My teenagers are always on their phones.” How about you be a parent and take the phones away. You’re part of the problem. Same parents who blame the teachers when the kids have D’s and F’s.
He is a real educator who will not waste his time with phone addicts. I do not own one and am a well adjusted guy who give human beings priority over devices.
I thought I was the only person in the country without a phone. Amazing life we live. It's heartbreaking to see how some people just ignore all the family and friends in front of them and just stare at those phones.
@@kjpcgaming9296 I also am globe skeptic. Have no TV to misinform me and refuse to go along with the narrative without researching and corroborating what is claimed. Prove all things! The phone is a necessary evil but I chose otherwise.
How do kids today even make any memories at school? How do they even make memories with their peers if they all constantly have their faces in their phones? I'm so glad I went to school before cellphones and smartphones were a thing.
I remember them starting to become a thing during my junior year in high school. And my manish ass was texting adult men to hook up with instead of connecting with my peers.
It’s not just kids. Adults are even worse. It’s the addiction nobody addresses. People have lost their lives directly or indirectly because of cell phones. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about it. Forget social media; we literally rely on our phones for basic day-to-day life. I’ve seen RUclips body cams videos of people being arrested and their biggest concern is their phones. The genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. There’s no turning back from cell phones.
Dear Colleague, here is what I do with phones in class: Students have to go out and use the phone outside. If the school administration catches them doing it - good, but above all, not my problem. If the students miss lessons - not my problem. But quitting? No, not that.
At this rate, we're not even going to have education in this country.
It’s a lost cause at this point.
Getting there very fast.
I managed to make it to my pension (22 years). This is only one of many many issues. American public education is completely wrecked. There are barely any teachers left, and those are just revolving door Teach for America Kids. I would strongly advise whoever is left to quit now before you damage your health.
Bunch of dumb dummies is what they are creating no way will I give a child power over me.
That's honestly so sad these kids are missing out because teachers don't want to get shot and children are addicted to endless content
He said the phones are a bigger addiction than crack…he’s right.
idk i never walked by a restaurant dumpster and seen someone blowing a dishwasher for a cell phone. but i have seen that happen for $20
@@jr1252I mean if you took the phones away from people and made them illegal you would see some crazy shit 😂
These kids are looking at porn during class.
27 countries in the world prohibit the use of cell phones in school.
@@smrtzttspanishenglishtutor67 we use to in the early 2000s. If you had your phone out it got locked up immediately and after like a three strike system your parents had to pay a fine to come get it. I’m positive that some schools still do this. They just need to implement the policy in such a way that would work for the kids and the parents. But the parents can’t be acting like kids too.
Dont blame him. Social media is destroying the country.
How about the world
The stupid Tikker Tokker thing is destroying the country. People are becoming so mind numbingly stupid because of it
What's destroying anything is inattentive parenting. Creating laws that force women to be parents. Women that have no right to be parents when they shouldn't be parents. Women and men who have no education on parenting. In cities that have no jobs to support having children. But meanwhile they insist on making it hard for you to prevent getting pregnant. It's uncalled for it's ridiculous. Let's also not forget the lack of sexual education in schools
@@NolocoLawrence The parents aren't parenting because they're on facebook.
Why....everyone can be podcaster
As soon as kids fail their grades, parents will blame the teachers and the school system but not their children.
The kids can't even fail. The schools bump up their grades just enough to pass and shuffle them on to the next grade even though they aren't prepared. I've heard multiple stories from teachers about the school administration instructing teachers to massage students grades just enough to keep them moving along. It's a disgrace.
Parents can’t handle failure. Too much accountability. For the child and for them.
Karen’s mostly
@@denyshadials5702That’s not an excuse
@@NoName-ik2duThe system is crap
This guy wasn’t even able to teach science because he was too busy trying to teach them life skills and that’s our job as parent. Parents are a huge part of this problem, if not all of it.
If your kids weren’t addicted to their phones and actually paid attention then this wouldn’t happen. You should appreciate that there still teachers who want to be engaging with their students. He could’ve just failed them or let them fall through the cracks. If you weren’t aware the U.S. has a high rate of illiteracy in kids across the country. So yes this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
I am convinced a lot of parents give their child a cellphone in order to get the said child to leave the parents alone
I received my first phone in 5th grade and it was a Samsung Intensity II nothing but a glorified normal phone, I didn’t receive my first smart phone until I was a junior in HS… preferably I prefer a normal button phone now as a primary, the good days of less distractions
As a teacher, as the years pass, my colleagues and I are having to teach more life skills and social skills.
no, its phones. and parents with phones. ban phones
I’m so glad I grew up in a period where there were no cell phones.
Me too. I am glad there were no cell phones at the time, at least, for us when we were kids.
Yet here you are now. I guarantee you use your phone more than 6 hours a day. Old people are worse than the kids sometimes.
I blame the parents for buying their young kids phones when they have no business having one. Wait until they’re 18.
@@geordiejones5618if you grown and outta school do you, the youth can’t even get past 8th grade lol
@@geordiejones5618 Yes I do use my cell phone more than 6 hrs a day. I have to. I use it for my job. I send and receive emails all day, and use my GPS to get from job to job. What I said was that I was glad I was able to grow up NOT having to use a phone. Life was better without it as a kid growing up! These kids today are all messed up and have no personality because they’re on their phones all day doing nothing except wasting time.
Adults are just as bad. Half the people walking down the street are staring at their phones and are simply not present. It's a sickness.
I noticed that due to the phone addiction epidemic, drivers are slower to react when the traffic light turns green.
@@bigcahuna42366 That is probably because they are checking the phones during a red light, get engrossed, and just miss the green light.
Yep, tried to watch a movie the other day with my sister, close to impossible she was missing half of it because of the phone. Went on a car ride with my brother the other day and it was like I was alone in the car
As long as your not it doing it at school or on work.
Present for what, exactly?
Paying attention to strangers?
Witnessing unimportant events?
What about walking down the street, besides not being hit by a car or bumping into people, requires absolute attention?
HOLD UP!! The mom is saying she has 2 teenage boys who are on their phones constantly. Uh, ma'am, that means you are part of the problem!! TAKE THE PHONES AWAY FROM YOUR BOYS!! And why isn't the school board doing anything to help the teachers? This is insanity!!
The school board can’t do anything to help the teachers because they’re on their phones just as much as well🫤
Blame the parents for.... not parenting
For real. That mother was talking about how her teenage sons are on their phones all the time, yet she apparently does nothing about it ?? Great parenting
@@zoehicks880a lot of kids become physically violent when you try to remove devices. It’s not simple . You think you flip a switch but parenting is influenced by culture and outside forces.
I don’t understand why kids and teenagers can’t put their electronics down for a day, especially kids, why would a kid want to be inside the house all day? They should be playing outside
Exactly. They were the ones who raised those iPad kids. The parents bought the iPads & phones and gave them to their kids.
The phone raises the children. Keeps them out of their parent's hair.
How about no phone allowed during school hours? We have lived thousands of years without cell phones. It's not that hard. No phones allowed during school hours!
Depending on your state, teachers can no longer take the phones as it's considered personal property. Many kids know the phone can't be seized no matter how much they use it. This started because of cases where kids had their phone taken, held, and they needed it after school hours and were left stranded.
Teachers can only hold it till the end of class. And if it's stolen the school has to pay for the phone in full. It's a huge liability to take phones. It's on the parents to teach them moderation. But do many parents give up mentally on raising their kids. Using technology because they're lazy.
@@Belle2550BS. The school districts can make a rule. We somehow made it home without any cell phones in the world. I’ve been to concerts where phones are banned. If a band can demand no phones at their concert, school districts can do the same.
@@Belle2550 It’s a little bit more complicated than that. Students and teachers are under the jurisdiction of the school board. Therefore, if the board rules in favor of an anti-phone policy, then students and teachers will have to follow it.
@@alextownsend6662 It sounds like you haven't been in a public school in a long time. @Belle2550 was exactly right about the situation in the schools. What is the consequence for adults if they refuse to stop using a phone in a concert? They get kicked out. Schools can't kick students out, and if they did, most of the time the students would like that. They won't stop. Kids also aren't legally responsible for their actions, but adults are. Adults face consequences for breach of contract, but there are no consequences for students if they don't do the right thing and they know it. It's up to the parent to impose consequences, and too many of them won't.
Our private school does not allow phones in the classroom. School is for learning!
The greatest crime is pretending like smartphones arent destroying our lives.
This is the world your people created. Don't be sad now.
Who are you, a f-king alien? 😂@@User78813
@@User78813”We”, my love. You’re part of this world as well. You do not exist in a vacuum.
@@Jocelyn_Jade no miss, I live on Earth but I'm not part of your world 😉
@@User78813bro 😭😭 if ur mom popped u out her human vag , you’re human
No need for children to have a cell phone at school.
None.
Family medical emergencies
Family emergency?
Medical Emergency?
Communicating with parents?
Edit: Looks like I got the boomers angry with this one.
@@thefastcommenter7774 The school has a phone along with employees/volunteers/students who can notify the student immediately. It's hard to imagine, but people had ways of communicating before cell phones.
@@lacyclist78 And?
@@thefastcommenter7774 So that eliminates the need for the student to be accessing their phone during instructional time. Thought that was obvious.
Parents are supposed to be the first teacher. They failed and they keep failing
WRONG the state and school make it impossible for parents to do their job. The state wants to control the children aka communism
Sorry we are too busy being tax slaves. We don't get summers off, tenure, and a nice fat pension. I worked all through COVID, and watched the teachers union take a two year vacation. They would get on zoom, for like an hour in the morning. Then just ghost. Property taxes didn't go on a two year vacation though did it... Like your name, no one cares about the teachers, they should work harder. Stop voting, for Democrats.
I think it’s the parents fault for raising such undisciplined children. Wait, it’s actually both sets of the parents parents fault for not raising children who know how to raise children properly. Wait, clearly the 4 sets of parents parents parents are responsible for not teaching their children how to raise children that know how to raise children properly. Wait…
Yeah, as if parents can do anything in the face of corporate power to turn our kids into little consumers. Don't blame the parents. That's a cop out. Blame the shittier and shittier capitalist society that has been a huge part of the process of humans becoming increasingly alienated from each other, from nature, from themselves, from meaningful work, from meaningful arts, from a meaningful life, period. Capitalism is to blame, but it's such a big machine, and we feel so defenceless in the face of it that we've become apathetic and choose to find some other cause of this world going to hell in a hand basket. The world is becoming unliveable (And people more and more unlovable) because of capitalism, insatiable greed, and empty materialism.
Cant do anything? Dont buy them dont pay the monthly fee. No the cop out is saying its everyone else's fault.
None of these phone-addicted kids will be employable. They won't be able to focus on tasks their employers will give to them.
Have you been anywhere lately? Employees are in their phones all day, no matter what the job.
@@rebeccaa2433 Yeah, but are they focusing on their jobs or watching videos? Those who are goofing off instead of working will be exposed quickly.
This is what your people chose to do with their head start ie cheap and free labor. Don't be sad. It's over with... Now the youth has to fight 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇩🇳🇪🇻🇪 but the black kids are too ignorant and don't care to do it so it will be the masters', overseers', and politicians', children doing the heavy work. Sheesh.
@@User78813 What are you on buddy? 😂
During my career in corrections, I saw many newly hired correctional officers get fired almost immediately for bringing their phones inside the facility.
No phones in the classroom...period.
Yep.
I totally agree 👍
Doesn't work. If you collect them, then there will always be a few kids who try to sneak them and cause disruption. And then if you try to use harsher measures with them, parents complain.
@@kbanghart So you start with detention and then suspension, c'mon people WTF? These kids aren't in charge the adults teachers are and the kids need to finally understand that. What the hell happened to the old way school was? Do your work or suffer the consequences. We got detention for chewing fucking gum because it was a distraction, this is fucking crazy!
Try telling that to the woke Left and youll be arrested at the school board
If you don’t believe this, you’ve never taught in a school classroom!
Or they taught over 10 years ago 😅
I did and think it’s bullshit. Learn to involve what students know and like. Adapt to the current generation. Make class fun and interesting (which you should’ve already been trying to do no matter when you taught). Cell phone addiction is not something that happens to everyone. It still requires an addictive personality like any other addiction. Your students aren’t all addicted to their phones. They are mostly bored.
Lady who says she has 2 teen boys and they are on their phones constantly: you know that you are the parent, right…set boundaries!
I’ve never seen such weak, feckless parents in my whole life. They have no spine so their kids run the show. Pathetic.
Lazy parents who don’t want to do anything about it
That shit dead, if they're teens already there's no way you can now set a boundary. Only thing you can do is not pay the phone bill but they'll still have WiFi
This was my thought, like okay lady you can do something about it.
Who is paying for those phones?
Nobody is going to be left to teach these disrespectful kids. They stay up all night on their phones, get 2 hours of sleep then come in and sit on their phones all day. Give them a laptop to work? They just play video games. Teachers spend way too much time trying to get kids to stop.
what is wrong with a #2 pencil and some paper
Phone in the locker, detention if you're seen with it. That's what was done 10 years ago
And if a teacher takes a student's cellphone away both the student and parents lash out at the teacher.
@@scruf153 old school and out of touch.... not to mention the harmful environmental effects those products have!!! our trees
Natural selection will work that out
Any school administrator who does not support a cell phone ban in class is not fit to hold their position.
Administrators can support a ban all they want but can they ENFORCE it is more important! I teach at a Charter School and we confiscate the phones as soon as students come in the door! I used "confiscate" on purpose because many students try to sneak them in anyway. And now students have started getting smart watches to circumvent having their phones taken. This teacher is 1000% right! Finally, it's interesting how every societal ill is supposed to be handled by the schools! You jump right to attacking administrators with ZERO mention of irresponsible parenting!
No arguments here .. reasonable stance ..
It’s the parents fault, they wont support a phone ban and overtesting has caused kids to check out. They cant learn in part necause it’s a testing system
Not education
Overtesting sounds like a new fake made up excuse. Kids are getting dumber and dumber. If anything they're under tested.
Signal blocker in every school with a designated exception room for adults and child emergency use.
FACT: The cell phones are designed to be addictive.
Social Media is designed to be addictive.
Yep, and in Ontario, Canada many school broads have band together to sue social media for "changing 'student's brains' " !!!
Like so many things in today's world, we wait until it's a crisis until recognizing the problem. What will the next generation be known for?
So ?? Addicting or not, designed to be addictive or not, phones should never have been allowed in the classroom in the first place.
@@-greentoad
BECAUSE They are designed to be addictive. They should Not be given to children AT ALL! This world would be a much better place.
When my children were in school, cell phones were Not allowed at school. Teacher’s confiscated any phone that was in their sight.
Sooo I agree they shouldn’t be in class. Addictive substances should Never be given to children. We don’t give them alcohol or cigarettes do we?
Cell phones should NOT be allowed in schools.
PERIOD
Cope boomer
@@thomasanthony4012AGREED!!
Or you could just treat them like an adult and make them responsible for their learning and smartphone usage. When you are 30 no one is going to tell you to stop using your phone, or your employer can just fire you. You, as a teen, made the choice to use your phone.
Sounds great but what parent is going to sign up for that with school shootings being our reality due to the insane gun lobby and braindead gun loving republicans
Students would at least turn them off so no bleep doesn’t happen in class.
Poor guy. You can tell he just wants the best for his students but they are too far gone
most kids are have a phone addiction before they start school thanks to their so called parents
True. The evil of those who made the smart phone and social media is so great, they will face Gods wrath
He has good intentions but his attitude and tone are out of touch. To be effective you need to know how to meet people where they are at and engage in a positive way. Doesn't seem like that s a skillset he excels at.
@@aarondougherty236 yeah, whatever blah blah blah. You sound like an enabler
@@aarondougherty236 its easy to judge. Do you really think you could motivate a class of thirty gen alpha kids to get off their phones and listen?
To the parent who said she "understands his frustration because her kids are on their phones all the time..." Did she not make the connection? Get your kids flip phones.....
Good idea in thought, but in reality those that had flip phones would likely be bullied and ridiculed by the ones that didn't.
To go off of the teacher's drug analogy, when parents take away their phone, they will either buy an older model smart phone, get one from their friends or even steal one. Blacklisting apps on the wifi level might help, but kids can still use cell data and its harder to limit that.
Good idea. Bug your kids the Z flip phones!!
@@SockTeamStudios_Official I'm on my z-flip right now. It's the same as any smartphone.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT maybe a minimalist phone? It can look like a smart phone be it only allows you to call and do some other things but not really the internet of social media
That's a huge shame....he seems like such a conscientious and caring educator. The school system needs more teachers like him.
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From 30 April 2024 cell phones have been banned from all schools in New Zealand. Maybe the US should consider the same?
NZ actually has a functioning government I imagine. Not perfect but decent. The US is a shit show … do you see what the Republicans do day in and day out
Interested to hear how well this is working.
They have tried this in Japan. Wakayama Prefecture was one of the first to ban students from bringing cell phones to schools. It did it in 2002. But even today about one of third of Wakayama students bring their phones to school.
Somebody would sue the teacher and the school district for "violating their precious little rights". America is self-imploding and doesn't even know it. Common sense and logic have become foreign concepts in the U.S.
That wouldn’t work here, people are too dumb.
Sorry, we don't take advise from other countries. In fact, suggesting such is the surest way to doom an Idea.
Tho, I will admit that some of us have taken an interest in fascism. But then, we'll declare it was our idea anyway.
The school my children attend does not allow cellphones. Period. The kids are able to be kids.
25 years ago we should have been on top of this.
I think that’s an amazing idea… as long as you can trust the school officials.
Because if you don’t, the very last thing you want to do is leave your kid with them, without the ability to contact you.
But that’s how i want my kids school to be, no phones
As it should be!!
Students still use them, the phones in their pocket and or handbags. There’s not much consequence when students get caught.
He sees the youth are massively ill over a decade of experience and decided to have a newborn kid after giving up on his class...... NEXT VIDEO!
Ban phones in school for kids.
There is in fact a school that has done this. I saw the vid a few days ago.
There are schools that do this. Unfortunately, some are private schools. We can not afford it.
I don't think that should be a ban, what if something happens and the main lines are down?
The same thing they did when I went to school in the 1960s. The land line phone in the office. Lastly teachers could have phones.
they already are
Today is my first day of retirement… 27 years in public education… 61 yrs old. When leaving the district where I taught for 17 years, the exit form asked: “Reason for leaving”: My answer: “Phones.” But it’s more than that. It’s the behavior that goes along with the phones, and the distraction that leads to poor learning. Serious issue in a world of ever-expanding serious issues. As for me: I’m done. Two years earlier than I’d planned. Enough.
Gotta hand it to him for going on the local news for this
And nothing changes
Why?
Yet 500,000 homeless ppl, no clean water for flint, monopolies in the Arizona housing market which has led to an affordability crisis, outdated infrastructure, and wages remain stagnant. He took his time to make this an issue equating phones to addiction rather than talking about Arizona’s decade long cuts to education, low teacher pay, high student to teacher ratios, and Arizona ranking among the last in education investment. 😂
@@kris.h.8032 Those are obv sepparate issues lmao?
@@kris.h.8032 No clean water for Flint? Why don't they fix it themselves? They should focus on education instead of football.
People are feeding their emptiness and loneliness with their cell phones. Nobody talk to anybody anymore. Miss the good old days with neighbors stopping by for a cup of Coffee and children playing nearby on a sunny afternoon.
So true. It's amazing to me that I can drive buy a public park on a beautiful Saturday or Sunday afternoon and see no kids in the playground or using the sports fields. We've lost our way when children no longer play.
Godless society
This is how they want. Isolated ppl are easier to control.
@ILGuy2012 Exactly!
Me too. When I run into somebody I haven't seen in a long time at the grocery usually can't talk longer than 30 seconds until their phone rings. Conversation over. Most of the time the call is from a spouse or family member with some trivial matter and wanting to know how much longer before they will be home. I miss the good old days more every day.
Ban phone usage in schools.
That will cause a riot.
Like Banning drugs? how well did that work out?
@@nahanng7791no it won't, phones aren't allowed at my son's High school.
I thought they were.... they were in the 90s.
@nahnang
Too fucking bad
No phones allowed in schools.
There was a school who banned phones. They lock them up when students enter, and they get it back when they leave. At first there was pushback from students, but now the students are happier, they’re having more fun with friends since no one is glued to their phone, and their grades are improving. In case of emergency, the school has a phone system that can be used to call parents or 911. If a student needs an alarm for medical reasons, they make watches for that.
The watches are becoming a problem too. Kids will put their phones away, and then I see them fiddling w/ their smartwatches, because they're texting instead of doing class activities.
@@guccideltaco I’m not even talking about those smart watches. Digital watches still exist lol. And they make “smartwatches” for purely medical reasons. So no fun apps, but it tracks heart-rate, sets alarms for medicine, some even connect to glucose pumps. But definitely those smartwatches are like mini iPads on the wrist, I wouldn’t want those in my classroom either.
Source?
@@ryansmith4494Dayton, Ohio I believe. I watched a news report on it last week on RUclips.
@@ryansmith4494 If you don't believe her, why would you believe her source? Google it for yourself. I just did. Took me two seconds to find that it was a school in Salt Lake city. (I think there are other schools, too.)
The most vocal parents won’t let their kids be disciplined. They’ll elect school boards that enforce no-consequence policies- and replace any tough administrators.
Didn't expect to see you here!
I believe you are right!
Just like our government!
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He seemed like an invested teacher, which is what's truly sad. Losing another one
Phones not allowed in school. Period
As a mathematics instructor, I brought this issue up to administration and as a school we implemented a no-phone use in classroom policy in the classroom, it worked wonders.
As a retired teacher who saw the behavioral regression over a 30 year period, I cannot blame this guy for quitting. I’m glad I got out when I did.
I like beef farts. Especially after meatloaf at cracker barrel
Same!
@@faraboverubieskerry Right?! Rippin em from Sloppy joes is nice, but fart goes to shart real easy when the thunder hits downunder
@@Kaktus965🤡
Weak minded, mediocre ass teachers and parents. No wonder we're in this mess
I just did a 3 day training seminar for work and I can’t tell you how many adults also cannot put their phones down for two minutes and pay attention to speakers or presentations. And none of it’s work related. It’s all texting and social media.
Your observation is spot on. This addiction is wide spread. I've watched city council meetings where the councillors brazenly ignore the citizens presenting on the given issue in question.
Yep exactly
It was almost always work related for me. I took a few notes, texted a few coworkers about the schedule, texted back my boss. Not like I was watching youtube or something.
Say that again it’s terrible 😞
Apples never fall far.
I can't believe that most schools allow cell phones in the classroom. Back in the day, we couldn't have Yo Yo's or Superballs.
Give it a couple of years, they’ll be allowed to bring in their “service pet” (which will be a 60 pound pit bull).
@@Nas_Raf ong fr 💯
I remember kids used to get their phones confiscated for even using them at Lunch. But this was in the 2000s when cell phone were not popular yet, and only like half the kids had cell phones, and phones didn't even have internet. Now literally everyone has a cell phone.
I remember they would confiscate our phones and the parents had to come pick it up
Oh boy I remember my old man yelling at me for making him leave work
Never did that again.
Don't let then see you with a Gameboy, I was too poor for that so I had Tiger Toy games, government provided gaming devices.
Kids literally go to school not to just learn curriculum but to learn social behavior. The so called social media is a cancer in our society.
Irresponsible for parents to put cellphones and tablets in their children's hands before they develop strong reading skills and strong study habits.
Or social emotional skills…..
I'm a millennial but still hated reading and studying, even though I never had a cellphone until I was 19. School has always been the most boring and annoying thing on Earth. But I still have a good GPA cuz society forces me to if I want to live.
Most parents today are lazy ignorant and apathetic. The ones who heard gadgets are bad for children just dont care.
He is spot on! drugs, sugar and cell phones in that order. Maybe we should get cell signal blockers for the classroom?
@uscitizen1035, putting a cellphone in their children's hands isn't Irresponsible. If you teach them how to properly use it and teach them when to and when not to use it.
I truly will never understand why schools just havent banned phones in classrooms?
Parents want them there. That's why.
It is too much work to enforce this policy with 1000-2000 kids. It will never work and they know it so they allow it. Each day a kid shows up means money in their pocket. So a warm body is better than NO BODY
Right? Weren't they banned at the beginning?
They try, but the parents get upset and demand the students get to have their phones or get upset when the phones are taken away and sent to the office.
Because its racist
To the parents complaining about their kids being on their phones 24/7… you do realize YOU pay their phone bill, right? You can shut it down. Anytime.
I agree with you, though there's another issue: They can simply either go to where their friends live & use their Wi-Fi, or go to their school or to a public place & use their Wi-Fi connections on their phones as well.
The simple solution, is to just take their phones away.
@@WizardOfWor sorry, I wasn’t clear - meant shut down the issue/situation entirely, not just the phone service. Referring to the parents being the ones in control and with authority here, so idk who they are complaining to and acting so helpless. Looking for someone else to fix their problems and parent their kids for them, I guess. 🤷♀️
wouldn't have worked on me. but maybe others.
You'd think. I ended up dealing with Children's and Family Services "explaining" to me that taking away my daughter's phone for misuse at 15/16 years old was a very devastating and extreme action that would isolate her "from the necessary connection to peers". My daughter's friends parents' also helped coach my daughter and supported her to rebel against me while showing "responsible parent faces" to CFS. They'd insist they have rules their kids follow, and then permit their kids to do whatever they wanted to avoid fighting (aka: parenting and disciplining reasonably). Today, my daughter hasn't graduated high school, can't secure work outside of the nightclub industry and can only commodify her youthful attraction. I totally blame it on all the people who wouldn't let me take a phone out of her hands for even 3 days, including her father who insisted on replacing her phone to be the favourite parent. I know this sounds whiny...
But phone addiction is a real thing...and the problem is even if parents want to step in the gap and try to address the cause of the addiction, until now, it was considered near child abuse not to give a kid a phone and pay for it to be weaponized against healthy parenting and even ... teachers who want to educate.
Excellent point.
No one should blame this guy for quitting. No way in hell I could teach kids who are absorbed by their phone
Earlier this year I contacted a parent regarding their child’s constant cell phone use in class. Her response - her child denied “even taking out his phone, let alone using it and he was very upset over my accusation”. How do you combat that? Trust me, if a teacher is contacting you over an issue, they’ve already tried other methods to correct the behavior.
Fast forward to a week ago, parent wants to know why the child is failing the quarter (grades have been posted for over a month); and would like extra credit for him. Sorry mom, but that’s a negative. Told her it’s because of the same issues I contacted her about earlier in the year….which she chose to ignore. Some parents are clueless.
You have to take your own pics/video evidence.
@@wiiildfire no the parent is just delusional. Teachers do not have to "prove it," they are busy teaching . This isn't a law court. This is simple common sense. The parent is just a moron
@@wiiildfire There are laws that restrict TEACHERS from recording students, unfortunately.
@@guccideltaco I didn’t know that but it makes sense.
@@stayroxy We’re on the same side here, chill.
He’s so right. Biggest addictions in order 1. Phones 2. Sugar 3. Drugs.
4. Dhar Mann videos
1 phones, 2 video games, 3 sugar, 4 drugs
@@christianjensen3182Don’t forget sexual promiscuity.js
Dam that sugar!
@@americanpleb7871 drugs are outlawed....it's time we do the same with sugar. More than just a "sweet" idea!
Simple solution: Don't buy your child a phone. If that means maintaining a landline, then so be it. It's a mental health issue.
you think a child can't get a hold of phone without parents? you're delusional ... a child will get a hold of phone with or without parents help.
people like you are the problem, you have no common sense, you don't think.
oh? huh? you didn't think about smokes, alcohol and drugs, did you? you see its literally against the law for a child to do any of those things, yet they get their hands on all 3.
phones arent even illegal .. and you think kids wouldn't be able to get their hands on a phone if parents didn't buy one? you're delusional.
a simple solution is to make a law that allows teachers to take or break kids phones when they're using them in class. THAT would be blunt and effective solution. stop cuddling dumb people and PUNISH them for being dumb, THAT is the solution.
also fail them in class. if i was teacher, i'd fail anyone who i catch scrubbing on phone. instant fail. no excuses.
did you do that with your kids??
I tried , but other kids have it and honestly she will sit alone cause they are all on their phones .
@s0urbugz837 and?
Like my mother used to say, she needs to pick up a book. Get ahead in her homework or projects, enter herself into little contests, intensely pursue a hobby, study then study ahead of her grade. Use school like the resource it is. There are so many other options better than joining in with her addicted peers.
Taught for 31 years. I understand teacher frustration!!!
I’m so tired of parents choosing to ignore the pleas of schools for them to stop buying these smartphones for kids. Parents could very easily just get kids a flip phone, but they act like the child’s world will fall apart without a small phone. Children have become ADDICTED to these phones and parents don’t care.
My daughter has a phone but I have parental controls on it and she has no social media apps. I won't allow her to have Tik Tok, Facebook, Snapchat etc. Phone us just used to call or text me if she needs to, that's it. Kids and young teens don't need social media, I'm glad my daughter doesn't complain about not having that.
while I agree KIDS should not be given cellphones, I think 13 year olds or even 14 year olds should be allowed since those are teenage years and by then the teenager should have enough maturity and hopefully, responsibility to use their phone, but parents should also monitor what their kid is doing online, not like a helicopter parent but just checking in to make sure their kid isn't talking to weird people/people they don't trust. Phones really are a distraction unless it's just for texting family members/friends, it would greatly help them focus on school than social media. I'm 16 years old and I know the very experience of being given a phone at an early age, it was harmful to me because my parents didn't give me restrictions or monitor what I was doing, that's the problem I'm noticing, I don't think phones should be banned forever, it's a privilege that needs to be earned. I wish I had the opportunity to earn my phone AND have it at an older age, I had no business having a phone at 8-12 years old, and if I did, I had no business having social media other than to use my phone to talk to family and friends. Phones are okay but RESTRICTIONS and MONITORING your child should be a MUST if you're going to give your child that freedom.
Parents start it. It sickens me when I see kids out in public, younger than 2, glued to a phone. Or kids holding their tablets going into restaurants. Back in the day we were handed small toys or books. At restaurants my brother and I loved the crayons and the activity pages where we'd do a few puzzles and interact with each other by making jokes about the pictures or something and use the back to pay tic-tac-toe or hangman.
You can buy them cellphones if you discipline them well. Do not reward bad behavior.
Most of the problem is that parents don't care. The school can ask all day long and it will do nothing.
The rest of the problem is that schools don't enforce it. Don't ask. Make the policy of no smartphones and then stick to it.
That lady in the car putting off some real "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas." vibes.
When I was in school, we had a tough time passing written notes. We couldn’t chew gum. Take the phones away!!!!
Yeah. I was the one in the back corner of the room ripping some rank beef farts
@Kaktus965 - That was you??
Lol I remember
As my teacher have said "Im not expecting you to remember all of this , But I am teaching you to think" sadly most people are becoming zombies because of phone addiction
As an ex biology teacher, it is ridiculous to have kids on phones in a laboratory. Put the phones in the lab's refrigerator during class. Make the kids think. Or ignorance prevails.
*In the case of Biology, it doesn’t matter. High School Biology is a total crock of shit*
Does it really matter though if they're just going to think that biological men can get pregnant anyway? All that work that high school teachers do gets undone in college.
@@Kaktus965here's clown boy again 🤣
Retired after teaching physics and chemistry for 35 years. Couldn't deal with the phones anymore. It was a great first 30 years.
He is 35… taught for 10
@@BigCheese1996 I think you may not understand what James just wrote.
@@BigCheese1996 re-read what James wrote. He left too. Phone addiction is out of control
Well, enjoy your retirement🎉
@@BigCheese1996you obviously didn’t get much of an education either ! Too many distractions!
As a former Biology teacher, I understand what he is going through. I believe all teachers get frustrated over this issue. You can tell he’s a dedicated teacher and how much this upsets him not being able to reach these kids. You feel defeated. I wish him well and hope he is able to find joy in his future job.
Were you allowed to fail students? My mother taught for many years at an underperforming school in Atlanta, and she was literally forced to curve grades, but curving grades and promoting students socially helped create and perpetuate the underperforming status of the school.
In terms of this whole cell phone thing, if I were teaching, I would absolutely let students keep their phones, but I wouldn't reteach one single thing because of students playing on their phones, nor would I curve one single grade. Sometimes, people have to learn the hard way.
Ban phones from the classroom!!!
I feel the same way. 🙃
A teacher friend of mine left teaching and became a truck driver. He couldn't be happier.
Probably makes more money too
Wow, was it that bad?
Ngl, trucking seems more better
@@jediD20
It is that bad and worse in some schools.
Today is my last day teaching forever.
Why did you quit or are you retiring?
As long as you got a plan together what you are going to do next I don’t blame you. Tired fighting against a losing battle.
@@teresacastro1263I don’t think she wants to continue indoctrinating kids with bs
Congrats
Lucky you! I’m limping another…gulp…nine years. 😢
I hated it, but my mom was right when she had parental controls on my phone in high school. I could only use social media for a limited time each day, then had to figure out what else to do with my time. Parents just don’t want to parent anymore.
That’s one of the things we like about iPhones. They make setting limits really easy & they can be adjusted for specific situations, if the kid requests permission.
I truly agree with him. These kids are more interested in what’s on their phones than learning. I feel phones should be banned from schools.
Kids are learning bad social skills in so many ways. Very sad.
They’re learning useless bull crap in school that’s designed to keep them stupid. Open your eyes
My husband’s friend said that his son’s high school are going to start charging parents $50 if their child is caught with their phone in class. They have to pay $50 and come pick up the phone. Not sure how I feel about that. Told his son if he has to pay $50 to get his phone back he won’t have a phone anymore
I think it's a good idea. Otherwise, our tax dollars paying these teachers and funding the schools are just being pissed away.
That’s genius!
That won’t be enforceable
@@rebeccaa2433 I had that thought as well but I dunno 🤷🏼♀️ it’s also a private school so maybe because it’s in their contract when they sent out emails to the parents about it
Not sure how they’ll pull that off because it’s personal property. Too bad they can’t have cellphones jammed in the classroom but then it would also jam staff phones so they won’t do that. Don’t forget we adults are addicted too. I’m on mine right now (but I’m not at work or school)
They shouldn't be allowed to have them in school. Period.
That would require a principal with a backbone
*High School Biology is a crock of shit anyway*
@@CN45475bs, nothing to do with the principal, they can’t make laws without their education dept allowing it. It’s up to the education system or government putting this in place otherwise parents will cry discrimination or some other shit which no principal or teacher has the time or energy to deal with. The parents should stop giving them the devices in the first place but too many don’t know how to parent now.
Exactly. Collect them at the start of each class and return them at the end. If you don’t turn it over, you’re counted absent that day.
@@Kaktus965 considering how many biologists this Country produces, yes it is a waste of time. Most of the Students are going into general labor. Go back to 8th grade graduation
Flip phones for kids until 18. They can still call for help if necessary but not access the internet at least during the day.
In our schools we have a panel by the door with individual pockets where students must deposit their phones when entering the classroom. If a student is caught with their phone in class they get a week of detention. No talking and no phones in detention.
There were a few weeks with a lot of kids getting detention but they quickly learned playing that game won’t fly.
Treat children like children.
do this here, parents are in court against the school for violation of civil liberties.
Leave it to Beaver to completely forget his phone leaving the classroom. Been there, done that.
I concur, I'm a middle school math teacher in my 60's - this phone addiction is a real and growing problem. Some of my classes are made miserable when dealing with phone disruptions - so much wasted classroom time. The kids get used to the dopamine rush they get off being on their phones, some can barely function when their phone is taken away. Parents who give their kids phones are mostly trying to be their kids friends rather than being a parent and saying no. Young minds are defenseless against the siren song of being on their phone. I worked for a couple of years in a district that banned student phones - test scores went up at all levels. Many school boards are reluctant to have much of a policy against student phones because of student and parent outcry that they are needed for emergencies - while ignoring the education damage that is occurring from student phone addiction.
This is what your people chose to do with their head start ie cheap and free labor. Don't be sad. It's over with... Now the youth has to fight 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇩🇳🇪🇻🇪 but the black kids are too ignorant and don't care to do it so it will be the masters', overseers', and politicians', children doing the heavy work. Sheesh.
This is what your people chose to do with their head start ie cheap and free labor. Don't be sad. It's over with... Now the youth has to fight 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇩🇳🇪🇻🇪 but the black kids are too ignorant and don't care to do it so it will be the masters', overseers', and politicians', children doing the heavy work. Sheesh.
I find it funny that schools have no problem standing up to parents when it’s to push far left woke nonsense that has no place in schools, but when it comes to standing up to parents against cell phones their spines turn into gelatin.
Also the emergency thing is nonsense. Kid is still allowed to have a phone on them, they just can’t use it in class. It’s extremely simple.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, before cell phones were a thing. Do people think emergencies didn't happen before cell phones? Yet somehow, we managed.
I mentioned at work that I rarely take my cell when I go the grocery store over half a mile away (I walk there several times a week) or any other walkable errand. My co-workers were baffled and just aghast at the whole idea. "What if you have an emergency?" What emergency??? There are businesses every 20 feet and people driving by. People will do a lot of mental gymnastics to justify having their phone in their hand at all times.
@@SatipatthanaSakuraDragona Right?!!? I hitchhiked across the USA for years with no cell phone. I got into some seriously sketchy and dangerous situations, but still survived. I still don't have a cell phone and am grateful for it,
That’s so sad he felt he had to quit. 😢 The school principal or higher should have made a a mandatory student meeting to address this phone issue in classes. The teachers are too valuable to lose anyone because of no discipline to the students.
They don’t like to stand up to parents or fight battles that make them targets. They’d rather let the teachers fight the battles and wear the targets on their heads.
@@mtc-j9iyou’re probably right. The other staff didnt seem to support him enough
I retired from teaching in 2009. I tell all young people, don't go into teaching. Big, big headache. Not enough money. Simply not worth the effort!
@@mtc-j9i You are absolutely right. My principal (elementary school) is a nice guy but a wuss. He won't confront anyone over a hard issue. He just throws his hands up and says it's out of his control.
@@Mary-cg1slSounds about white
How about parents be parents, not your kids friends, start there.
Way too many adults are not capable of being good parents. And the job of parenting is getting harder in today's world.
Too many parents will complain if phones are banned.
That parent they interviewed at the end: Knows it's a problem with her two boys, yet does nothing.
I was an inner city educator for 30 years. You can’t even in your wildest dreams Imagine how difficult some parents can be and totally explains the whole Apple and how they don’t fall far from the tree thing.
@@nonnie8388Many people are parents on paper but not in practice. Too many people have kids and should’ve never had any better yet a rock garden. There should be an intelligence and common sense test in order for people to have kids.
Having same problems in the workplace. Many adults are as bad as the kids!
Adults can demand an instant response from those within their social media circle just like kids. This social interaction sickness has only been around for a few years. We're just now seeing the effects.
I really feel the frustration of this teacher! My question? Where is the school Principal in all of this? It’s usually up to the school administrators to set the ground rules for banning cell phones in the classrooms…Not the overworked teachers! 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
List of complaints: 1. Lack of administrative support........
Many administrators are hopeless.
It’s a numbers game. If word gets around that your school is too strict enrollment will drop and make the principal look bad. Sadly, kids know they are in control.
They are afraid of parents
One, there are too many cell phone violations to reasonably enforce the rules for every single violation (this goes for the dress code as well). Two, even when cell phone rules are enforced, it's often the parents who complain and demand that the rules be more lax. Even a very supportive administrator can only do so much when it's them against hundreds of students and parents who refuse to listen or be helpful.
Some colleges have started banning the use of phones and laptops in the course room. Our K-12 needs to follow suit. It's a simple enough solution.
I teach college and don’t allow them during class. They just use them anyway.
@@rebeccaa2433wtf
I agree. But try implementing that in a K-12 school. My last year teaching, phone use was banned, and students still used them. When teachers tried to do something about it, the teachers were blamed, and nothing done. It turned out to be a joke. Most kids had them and used them. The kids who followed the rules saw that the kids breaking the rules got away with it. Result? More kids with phones as the year went by. Eventually ban dropped. Weak discipline from parents and administration. I should add that about 80 percent of our students read below grade level. This was three years ago.
@@jonirving5606 ~ I suppose it's too late to institute the policy with this generation. We need a complete overhaul of our education system on so many levels. If only we could start over again, with the next generation, by teaching the basic Rs in grade school while disallowing the gadgets. If only...
I can't imagine the frustration teachers put up with nowadays trying to teach kids while they are on their phones, ignoring them, and their sense of entitlement is out of control.
Way back before cell phones, schools had rules and we had to follow the rules so i don't get it that schools now can't install a no phones rule?
The parents want their kids to have phones on them at all times.
@@bythewaybytheway67Parents are actually most of the problem. Can you imagine the sense of entitlement these kids will grow up with? The absent moral backbone? The incidence of depression? The contempt for authority and each other? The inability to think and debate? The easy prey for conspiracies and indoctrination? Adults with zero foresight and parental control are entirely responsible for this.
@@createone100 I personally want to be able to speak to my parent via text or call if an active shooter was around versus their last chat with me being the morning or night before
They can. If parents complain, let them.
No cell phones means that the phone is off and in their bookbag or locker at all times.
If there's some emergency the school has phones and the student would still have access to their cell.
Letting parents dictate policy is rarely a good idea. Too many parents with conflicting ideas. Bending over backwards to try to live up to every parents' whim isn't even possible.
@@i-mbalmif an active shooter is in your school, do you *really* want a bunch of cellphones going off in your classroom where you're hiding?
Think about it. It would be a neon sign saying come get me to the shooter.
If there's an emergency you parents can still reach you. If it's a shooter emergency your parents can still get info from the district.
As a current biology teacher myself, I can say that there is no way to win this battle. These kids are hopelessly addicted to their phones..as addicted as they could be to heroin or meth. Except that this drug is even more insidious because it is socially "acceptable."
Imagine a teen addicted to a certain drug, a drug that saps their attention and reduces their ability to focus longer than a couple of minutes. Now, imagine that many people in this teen's life are also addicted to this drug. All of this teen's friends are addicted to this drug. Some of this teen's teachers are addicted to this drug. Everyone in this teen's life (even those not addicted) use this drug, at least some of the time. This drug is available everywhere and is completely unregulated and without this drug , this teen can't easily maintain friendships, because all communication is done using this drug. And this teen's parents KNOW that this drug is hurting their child, but most of them are also addicted to this drug and they themselves are unable or unwilling to stop using this drug.
Oh, and by the way, the people who make this drug don't give it to their kids, and their kids get sent to private schools where this drug is not allowed.
What can we possible do to beat this?
Buy them Gabb phones. It looks like a smartphone but has no social media or Internet access.
@@kris78787 oh, awesome….problem solved
Call the parents and tell them if they dont get their child’s severe phone addiction and blatant disrespect under control that they will be removed from class permanently
@@JakeTurbine
Unfortunately, there are laws that prevent that from happening.
😂😂 really fossil. You’re equating phone usage to meth and heroine. What drugs are you smoking sir? It sounds like you’ve had some experience blowing the local washer to maintain your technological addiction. We should now establish Technology Anonymous. A 10 step program to help you beat your addiction to the screen. We can all sit around a circle and lament to our sponsors how insidious these screens are that we abandoned our families, abandoned our morals and values and hit rock bottom where we were doing things we’d never imagined because our addiction to the screen was so powerful not even hitting rock bottom could stop me from hurting my loved ones. Your equating this to actual people who suffer from addiction is merely insulting and makes a mockery out of it. So, stop trying to scapegoat your failures as a teacher on addiction but actually focus on the root cause which is the parents. Leave the parenting to the parents but if you couldn’t get a group of students to listen to you in your classroom then that’s a failure on you. Technology is a part of life now and nothing will stop it just like the car. Parents need to regulate their children. It’s that simple.
I taught high school science and phone addiction is crazy. I confiscated phones but it was always an issue. Kids sneaking on phones while I'm trying to teach. It's disrespectful. I didn't give my daughters phones until they were seniors in high school. Also, the laptops that school districts give students for class use are problematic. No research indicates that 1:1 technology improves academic performance. The kids are on their laptops in the middle of class watching movies. Yes, they know how to get around the firewall. Students aren't learning because we give them distractions. The school districts should have never allowed cell phones in the buildings. Call the front office if you need to relay a message to your child.
Bro
Phones need to be banned during school hours.
Yes!
So many of us are leaving MUCH earlier than planned. I wish this man and his young family well.
Good for the teacher! Let these kids learn the hard way what the future has in store for them.
Also shame on all parents that are also distracted with phones and not being there for their children as needed.
Addiction can be with anything.
All he taught them is that if they persist with unwanted behavior that they will get their way.
I don't think they care if the teacher quits. That's kind of the point.
@@whatchamacallit70fun fact ai stands for : 🍎👁️ 📱
@@ajspiceExactly👍
@evilbunnyofhorror Very true👍
I don’t understand how we have let kids get so distracted and disrespectful….
Awesome. First hero to speak out. 16 weeks ago l stop all computer service and cell services for 24hs a week. Oh my God has my mental health improved. Sundays to Monday. ❤👍
I had a first grader who was on his phone all night ( according to him and parents) and slept all day in class.talking to parents did not help.
the parents are in the wrong
A first grader with a phone? I can MAYBE see an iPad or the like for a 7 year old, but a phone? No. Unless it's like an old phone that his/her parents had and they replaced it, and the kid uses it to play games. When I was little I had a couple of "phones" like that. A few games, camera Google, RUclips, etc. couldn't call but it was fun thing to bring to the doctors office for the waiting room, or car rides.
Why would taking to the parents help?
They were aware that their very young child was staying up all night every night doing that.
That's borderline (if not actual) child abuse.
Dang that's crazy
I can’t be on my phone around other people. I don’t feel aware of my surroundings. I don’t even like being on my phone
Unfortunately society is allowing businesses to forcefully make adults even have their cell attached to their hips at all times. So we can’t alone blame the kids. I miss the older times of landlines. I’m away from home, please leave a message.
I'm a fossil. At age 60, I still have a landline and nothing else. I refuse to be enslaved to a gizmo.
You’re lucky you can do that and I’m jealous! I need one for work. I can’t login to my email without entering the code on my phone. It’s awful.
@@rebeccaa2433 I am self-employed; that helps!
@@Lava1964 I'm in my 40s. Same. I don't own a cell of any type. Not having one is actually preventing me from moving up at work, but I refuse to budge on the matter. I'll just have settle for being a mere "peon" and continue to have people make fun of me and give me weird looks for not having one.
Being on social media isn’t a life or death situation, though. There’s no need to be scrolling it while in class. Unless there’s an absolute true emergency, the phones aren’t necessary in school
I am glad that the teacher is prioritizing his health and his family. Self care is more important than someone else’s needs. Health is wealth. I had to leave the US for my self care. Bonne journée from the south of France.
My kids weren’t allowed to have phones until they were 18
My parents didn't let me get a phone until I started high school.
@@ryanparkhurst5718real
I didn't get my first smartphone until I was 24 years old and that was my second phone. Prior, I had a slide phone when I was 14 years old but that broke down after a year and I didn't have a phone for a long time after that.
Yeah they sell dumb phones.
You shouldn't have done that
Tucson School District: Where Every student graduates High School with a 3rd Grade Education and a Phone in their hand.
God bless this man. He’s going to be a great dad
Teaching kids that men can have babies was tolerable but cellphones...no way!
😅🤣😂😝 lol
No, that was not tolerable, neither are cell phones when school is in session.
Lock the phones up till after school
🙄 “My teenagers are always on their phones.” How about you be a parent and take the phones away. You’re part of the problem. Same parents who blame the teachers when the kids have D’s and F’s.
Then they shouldn't be parents at all!
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Wishing this caring and intelligent man and teacher the best with getting his next degree and future success. He his 110% correct!!!
This is such a shame. I hope for the best for him in the future.
He is a real educator who will not waste his time with phone addicts. I do not own one and am a well adjusted guy who give human beings priority over devices.
he's being disrespected, so he's leaving. good for him
I thought I was the only person in the country without a phone. Amazing life we live. It's heartbreaking to see how some people just ignore all the family and friends in front of them and just stare at those phones.
@@kjpcgaming9296 I also am globe skeptic. Have no TV to misinform me and refuse to go along with the narrative without researching and corroborating what is claimed. Prove all things! The phone is a necessary evil but I chose otherwise.
I love how the parents are like "yeah our kids are addicted, what can we do?"
Ol fatty in the video is just gonna give her tubby kids another coke and call it good
Some school districts have banned phones in the classroom. Easy enough.
Lol no it's not easy. There's always some parents that complain.
@@kbanghartit is easy who cares about the parents, they grew up with no phones
Why can’t he just impose a no-phone policy in his class?
How do kids today even make any memories at school? How do they even make memories with their peers if they all constantly have their faces in their phones? I'm so glad I went to school before cellphones and smartphones were a thing.
I remember them starting to become a thing during my junior year in high school. And my manish ass was texting adult men to hook up with instead of connecting with my peers.
It’s not just kids. Adults are even worse. It’s the addiction nobody addresses. People have lost their lives directly or indirectly because of cell phones. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about it. Forget social media; we literally rely on our phones for basic day-to-day life. I’ve seen RUclips body cams videos of people being arrested and their biggest concern is their phones. The genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. There’s no turning back from cell phones.
I don't and my wife doesn't use cell phones for anything. Life is fairly simple without their allure.
@@Spiritof_76 Good for you and your wife. 🤷🏽♂️
@@Spiritof_76 how r u replying then?
@@bunny19-xk5mj Probably using a computer. Are we all so addicted to our phones that we forgot about computers?
I said the same thing about the arrest videos ! ! ! !! ! !
Don’t blame the teacher. This cell phone business is insane.
Dear Colleague, here is what I do with phones in class: Students have to go out and use the phone outside. If the school administration catches them doing it - good, but above all, not my problem. If the students miss lessons - not my problem. But quitting? No, not that.