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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher on lunch break:

OMG THE NO CELL PHONES THING IS AMAZING! For the first time in YEARS kids are talking to each other. They are introducing themselves, willingly playing my silly ice breakers, fully engaging with their peers.

If you haven't been in a classroom recently, you have no idea how much they've taken over and how little footing we had to restrict them.  Today felt like when I started 20 years ago.[/quote]

So did teacher post this from her phone while watching kids?[/quote]

Right? That's how you know it's a troll. I will be curious to hear how the day went though. Hopefully parents and teachers can report back this afternoon.[/quote]

I'm not a troll. I'm a middle school teacher on cloud 9 that my students might actually interact with each other this year.  It seriously is a magic bullet to remove the phones from the realm of possibility. One child had a phone snuck on her lap during one class today (quickly dealt with by admin), but every other kid followed the procedure and it was amazing.

All of the staff is smiling and positive. After first period we all were wide eyed in the hallway about how smooth it all went. Kids were acting like kids again, not screen zombies.

It remains to be seen if laptops will just replace phones (our students don't have computers yet this year), but we are all so optimistic.[/quote]

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