Then why are the teachers freaking out at the thought of not having them? |
Why stop at teachers? Why not advocate for banning phones for all adults if they are banned for K-12 students? |
They aren't. One - maybe two - are simply stating what they use them for. |
And you said your texting also caused a disruption with your students, who rightfully questioned why you were allowed to use it during class. |
No. I didn't read again: Not that it's needed, but here's a simple example of how a cell phone was helpful for me, a grown up, while teaching in a classroom. Perhaps I needed assistance in my classroom and my kids were reading quietly. I could text the office and ask for someone to be sent down. The kids wouldn't be disturbed, like if I had called on the landline, and we'd get the support we needed. No harm. No foul. Cell phones aren't the horrible thing some make them out to be. The text to the office did not cause a disruption. That's the whole point. It's honestly very clear. For the record, I never posted about how kids shouldn't have phones. I don't know why, when everything is anonymous, that people assume all posts are coming from one person. Different teachers at different schools and in different grades have different experiences. One shouldn't assume a 5th grade teacher and one teaching AP Gov would feel the same way about how to handle cell phone disruptions from their students. Yet, you seems to see teachers as a monolith. |
It’s just some dumb troll trying to stir the pot. Obviously teachers shouldn’t have the same rules as kids. And obviously parents don’t get to make the workplace rules for other adults. |
Again with the insults! The anti cell phone police are incapable of social media etiquette. Showing us once again why your children can't handle their phones if this is their model. |
Calling someone out is not an insult. |
You called the PP a dumb troll. Is that what you consider your polite language? |
If PP is going to act like a dumb troll, then I’ll call them a dumb troll. STFU, dumb troll. |
There you go again with the insults. This tells me you can't respond with logic or reason. It also tells me that some parents are the problem their kids can't handle phones. |
It wasn't me who wrote that. But "dumb troll" is way more polite than what I would call them. |
I'm a retired teacher, now substitute. I had to get my phone out 3 times today to complete 2-step verifications to access email and Google. |
do students have the same verification? |
No. |