Reply to Future of Education

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Future of Education "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cannot even go to a live comedy show in NYC with a cellphone in NYC as an adult. The venues literally lock them up.  It's insane underaged kids area allowed cellphone use on any school grounds during learnig hours.

Cellphones should be taken away, period.[/quote]

I know I’m getting old when I say “back in my day”… but … back in my day, we had cellphones— we even had the early versions of smartphones— and we absolutely could not have them during the school day or they’d be confiscated for something like a week! I remember having my brick phone in my locker for calling my parents after practice, and that’s it. Your parents called the office if there was some emergency or if they needed to get in touch.

So why are kids allowed to have phones in schools now?! My kids are still too young and this hasn’t even occurred to me until I’ve heard parents of older kids complaining about excessive phone usage in class. It actually shocked me.  [/quote]

My DW teaches a MS grade. Since her admin has started enforcing rules she says the phones have not been a problem. They have an icon on their computer desktop that opens a template that can be sent to admin through Outlook. It lets the administrators know there is a problem.

1st offense, admin comes and takes the phone. The student gets it back at the end of the day. 2nd offense, admin takes it and a parent has to pick it up. 3rd time (and there seldom is a 3rd time) the phone is taken and the parent(s), student, counselor and admin have to have a meeting to discuss the cell phone. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics