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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

I understand. But a call to the office isn't a huge disruption. And it doesn't require looking up everyone's classroom # like the previous comment complained about.[/quote]

For kids quietly engaged in work, it is a distraction and one that could be avoided using modern tech.[/quote]

But you all wanted the office to call the classroom instead of kids texting, do you even remember that? You didn't think it was a distraction to other kids then. So why is the classroom landline only a distraction when it's in lieu of a teacher's personal phone use? [/quote]

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