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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Except it was disruptive according to your story.

You illustrated the problem with allowing teachers to use their phones during the day remarkably well.[/quote]

There is a serious reading comprehension issue. The use of the cell phone by the teacher PREVENTED disruption in the classroom. [/quote]

You obviously didn't read her story. Try again.[/quote]

Haha!  I'm the example providing poster and using my phone to contact the office meant I got the help I needed and the kids weren't disturbed while working on their assignment.  Anyone who has been in a classroom knows that phone calls are too interesting for kids and they will stop what they are doing to listen in.  That's pretty clearly an argument in favor of letting teachers have a cell phone.  [/quote]

And you said your texting also caused a disruption with your students, who rightfully questioned why you were allowed to use it during class.[/quote]

No.  I didn't read again:

[i]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. [b]The kids wouldn't be disturbed, like if I had called on the landline, and we'd get the support we needed. [/b]No harm. No foul. Cell phones aren't the horrible thing some make them out to be.
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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.

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You said earlier:

"I’m worried these people are teaching their kids that they should have the same privileges as their adult teachers. One of my colleagues texted me that we were out of Kleenex [b]and some kid told her that her father said teachers shouldn’t be allowed on their phones, either. As you can imagine, she was really snotty about it.[/b] Allowing teenagers to believe that they should have the same privileges as their adult teachers is a mistake. That kind of thing is what is ruining education."

That certainly sounds like a disruption from using the phone.[/quote]

That was a different poster. Oh my goodness. Yikes![/quote]

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