No Phone Zone?
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2024
- For many of us old-timers, the idea of students on cell phones in the middle of class is nearly unthinkable: PAY ATTENTION, ADDISON! It’s not surprising that when a school recently tried the idea of banning cell phones from class it caused an uproar. It IS surprising that the protests didn’t come from the students… it came from their PARENTS. Scott Ott has the details.
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Cell phones NEVER had a place in any school.
When I saw you guys were discussing cell phones in schools, I totally expected to see at least one of you mention how woke teachers' misbehaviors have been captured by kids with their cell phones. I'm proud of kids who put their phones to good use like that.
why should parents have any trust in school staff to keep their kids safe or even to do their jobs, schools are constantly caught breaking their own rules!?
I don't recall ever using a phone at school. Cell phones belong in the lockers, not in the classrooms.
My brother work in intelligence. He says the young new hires get twitchy because it is a secure building so they can’t have personal phones inside, nor use work computers to check social media.
I substitute teach and my favorite person in the entire district to sub for is a chemistry teacher who demands all cell phones be put in a shoe container directly next to her desk before class even begins. They can only be touched again if the days' assignment has been completed or when the bell rings to end class. As a result, I do my utmost to keep my own phone pocketed to set an example.
I would be against banning phones ...especially because they are so useful as educational tools through apps and also they have the ability to record teachers. and how often we have seen bad teachers simply because someone had a phone to record it. I would not want to take away this invaluable tool to safeguard students from bad teachers. until you have Cameras with audio in every classroom so the parents can monitor the teachers and their kids safety, I'm 1000% to allowing the students to keep their phones.
I tend to side with the parents on this one. This kind of reminds me a little bit of the whole gun control argument. The way to resolve kids abusing the use of their phone is to take the phones away from all of the kids including the ones that are not abusing the privilege. How about each teacher if they choose to have a rule on phones, simply instruct that all phones will be turned off while in class. As soon as the class is over they can power up their phone checks to see if mommy and daddy sent them a message, and go to the next class, where they again turn their phones off.
30 year teacher here. It should 100% be a teacher-prerogative thing. Bans, in my experience, are almost always ill-informed. Modern devices are a wonderful tool: for education and distraction. Teachers should be in control of their classrooms, like I am in mine. I have students using the Calc84 app which emulates the TI-84 calculator with all its advanced statistics functions for my AP Statistics class. I have students completing their Khan Academy assignments on their phones. And I have students who watch videos and play games all period. I simply assign grades as they are earned. "Ban phones in school" makes about as much sense as "ban guns in society."
Let's not forget that, without cell phones in the students' hands, any malfeasances or otherwise inappropriate actions of some teachers would go unproven or unreported.
I teach a college class and I can't begin to tell you what a problem this is.
No taking private property without due process of law, Come and Take it!
As an old gen x'er I can't even begin to describe how bad the idea of a twelve year old me with a cell phone in school would be!
Speaking from experience almost every student is glued to their phones. Education seems like a side show. They could just have slot to put the phones in prior to class.
If the parents want kids to have phones, get them a dumb phone.
The problem is that many parents want to be their kids friends or best friends. I made sure my mother and father knew they were never my friend let alone best friend. They had a hallowed place, one was my mother and the other was my father. Both infinitely greater importance to me and my siblings than any friends could be.
Todays kids, will never know the joy of call the local drug store and asking, "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?" and when the druggist says yes, you respond, well you better let him out of there or he will suffocate. Giggle-giggle.
On the school-uniforms thing - it's been found that OPTIONAL uniforms solved virtually all the problems. At the Catholic schools that had that rule, usually a little more than half the students would wear uniforms and take away that whole arc of bullying. On phones? Leave them at the door. You can get messages in between classes and at study hall.
I'll add to Scott's statement of trust (at least for sons, I was one once!) Don't trust your kids either. Oddly, my later father somehow always knew when I had transgressed, and though I had grown beyond any physical punishment, opprobrium and shame did the job pretty well. And through it all I knew he loved me, and me right back, then I tried to do better.
Never thought about it, but it was a more peaceful existence before the cell phone. People couldn't find you or communicate with you 24/7 and you had time to think, observe and learn without the distractions of having to share every single thing you saw or did ( in detail with photos) . I saw a sign saying " thank God there were no phone cameras when I was young and stupid" Amen.