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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a HS teacher and think it was a massive overreaction from the school and that you are spiraling a bit too.  Some of these posters are over the top too.  Don’t create a power struggle over the phone.  She doesn’t get to take it to school anymore. Leave it at that.  Nothing else. Maybe try again in a few months if she matures.  They change quickly at this age.  [/quote]

I don’t think it was an overreaction from the school.  They wanted her to hand over the phone until the end of the day and she would get it back.    It became a problem when she could not just hand over the phone.  [b]If that’s not addressed she will be a major problem in high school.[/b]  She’ll be one of the unstable kids who act like you just took her right hand instead of a phone.   [/quote]

I see this thread was bumped and want to respond.  No, she won’t.  HS is so much more relaxed than middle school.  Kids mature.  Teachers are not as militant.  It’s not the same at all.  No teacher is snatching phones like that in a HS except the one or two crazy ones.  We all know who they are.

I really feel bad for this kid.  I’m sorry, OP.  All of this is going to do is make her hate school.

As a teacher, I hate the power struggle cell phones have becoming now.  They should have left it us to us to manage with our own class behavior roles but that’s a different thread.  [/quote]

You can’t be a teacher. We had the power struggle BEFORE the phone ban when we needed those things put up and had no mechanism to enforce it. Now it’s not even an issue. Put it in the pouch, period. It has streamlined everything and made every aspect of my classroom better. There’s no more arguments about why is it out, do your work, etc. I managed it just fine all of last year and now this year is going smoothly as well. You must have terrible classroom management. [/quote]

Yes, I am a HS teacher but teacher the older students.  Primarily 11th graders and seniors.  Not middle schoolers.  No, I never allowed cell phones.  No, it was not a problem and we didn’t need draconian rules taking phones like we have now that create the power struggles.  I don’t want to derail the thread but I did want to say that I am a real teacher of older students. [/quote]

Leave the phones in the locker until the end of the school day.   No power struggle at all.  [/quote]

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