School and phones.

That's exactly why it's clear you either don't have kids or don't have kids in school. You expect the school the put up with a disruptive student because they aren't the parent. Teachers have the right and obligation to discipline students, especially those who disrupt class or break the rules.
The fact that you are ignorant of that says a lot.

Detention, suspension, that's how schools discipline. I'm not allowing a school to take away something away from months that I paid for.
 
My daughter is aware that she will lose her phone much longer from me than the school so there has been no issues yet. I have a cheap track phone that only makes calls ready for just such an occasion.

I have tons of rules in when her phone is not to be used at home as well; Dinner, game night, movie night...

Hindsight being 20/20 I should not have gotten her a iPhone. Call and text and no web if I could do it again. But that ship has sailed........

( plus I would have had to use a foot down card with my wife. I am always hesitant to waste those.)
 
My kid was actually told to use hers last week with her history group and look up online someone's number in the Aleutians and call and ask what their current weather was like.

45 mph fog in Shemya!
 
Cellphones are a fact of life and schools need to adjust.
There's a gizmo available that interupts the cell signal in a room - if teachers/schools are that upset, they can always get one of those which the teacher can control.

My kids all had cellphones at high school and we never had a problem.

If the school had confiscated my kids phone I would have been seriously pissed..... I lived quite some distance away and would not have been able to drop everything to come to the school and get it.
 
Put some respect into Society, Start in the Home, allow the schools to teach and suitably discipline...

Ban phones in the Classroom........... allow at recess and lunch.

Get back to basics do-gooders
 
I'm sorry but you are clearly ignorant of the subject. Have a good day.



I'm ignorant on the subject because I'm not allowing the school to take something away that I paid for.

A teacher would get her ass whop out here for taking a child phone and try to keep it for months.
 
Are the teachers in the household? Maybe the parents tried, but some kids just don't listen.

Which is a perfect reason for the school to step in and deal with the problem further. Even one student doing something they shouldn't disrupts the ENTIRE class's learning, which should not be tolerated.
 
Which is a perfect reason for the school to step in and deal with the problem further. Even one student doing something they shouldn't disrupts the ENTIRE class's learning, which should not be tolerated.

If a child is going to disrespect and go against his parents,wtf can a teacher do? I guess maybe it's just a different breed here.
 
Cellphones are a fact of life and schools need to adjust.
There's a gizmo available that interupts the cell signal in a room - if teachers/schools are that upset, they can always get one of those which the teacher can control.

My kids all had cellphones at high school and we never had a problem.

If the school had confiscated my kids phone I would have been seriously pissed..... I lived quite some distance away and would not have been able to drop everything to come to the school and get it.

It is illegal to intentionally jam cell phone signals. The FCC and phone companies don't take it lightly.
 
If a child is going to disrespect and go against his parents,wtf can a teacher do? I guess maybe it's just a different breed here.

The teacher can and should remove the problem from the classroom so that the rest of the students are getting the quality of education they deserve.
 
Put some respect into Society, Start in the Home, allow the schools to teach and suitably discipline...

Ban phones in the Classroom........... allow at recess and lunch.

Get back to basics do-gooders

They usually are banned in classrooms unless a teacher specifically says it's ok.
Most kids with phones don't have recess.
 
If a kid doesn't listen I'm sure the parent will take away their phone. That would solve at least one of the problems.

That's my point.

It's the parent job to take a phone away. Not the school. The school didn't buy that phone. So the school shouldn't decide weather to take the phone away.
 
The teacher can and should remove the problem from the classroom so that the rest of the students are getting the quality of education they deserve.

Kick the student out the class. Send him to the principal office.

A teacher job is to teach. That's it,that's all.
 
A student isn't learning in the principal's office.

He's learning in there. Maybe not what he thought he was going to learn at school that day but he's definitely learning a lesson.
Of course when I went to school you got paddled. I don't think schools should do that but damned if it didn't work on me.
 
He's learning in there. Maybe not what he thought he was going to learn at school that day but he's definitely learning a lesson.
Of course when I went to school you got paddled. I don't think schools should do that but damned if it didn't work on me.

That type of lesson doesn't mean anything unless he'll face consequences at home.
 
A student isn't learning in the principal's office.

Him being disruptive shows that he doesn't want to learn today. As a teacher, you let the principal deal with it.

You're right, one child shouldn't take away from the other kids learning. So as a teacher, you kick his ass out of the class.
 
That type of lesson doesn't mean anything unless he'll face consequences at home.

They almost always do. Few parents are as ignorant as the person arguing about this in here. Some are but most aren't. It's the ones that are that everyone hears about of course but fortunately they are the exception.
 
Him being disruptive shows that he doesn't want to learn today. As a teacher, you let the principal deal with it.

You're right, one child shouldn't take away from the other kids learning. So as a teacher, you kick his ass out of the class.

And kids who don't want to learn will do that every day. Then their grades suffer. Then the school gets asked what they're doing to help that student. If the school has enough students like that, they'll lose a portion of their much-needed funding. If the phone is the root of the problem, it makes much more sense for the well-being of the student and the school to remove the phone.
 
They almost always do. Few parents are as ignorant as the person arguing about this in here. Some are but most aren't. It's the ones that are that everyone hears about of course but fortunately they are the exception.

The students who do face consequences at home sufficient enough to convince them to follow rules aren't the problem.
 
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