Why is it against the rules for students to use their phones during breaks (high school?)
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You aren't allowed to use your cellphones when you're outside of class?
Wha-hahahahahat?!
That's ridiculous.
The students have my sympathies.
I'm horribly glad I don't go to such a strict school. I'd be doomed those times my cellphone rings during tests and I've forgotten to turn the sound off.
As it is, the teacher just looks at me and says something like "don't forget to set your phone to vibrate in the future".
Wha-hahahahahat?!
That's ridiculous.
The students have my sympathies.
I'm horribly glad I don't go to such a strict school. I'd be doomed those times my cellphone rings during tests and I've forgotten to turn the sound off.
As it is, the teacher just looks at me and says something like "don't forget to set your phone to vibrate in the future".
Damn kids and their damn newfangled gadgets, anyway (yes, I'm that old as well. The first green-screen cell phone I owned, I bought when I was 20)...
That said, I say if the kid's paying for the phone his or herself, the rule is unfair. But how to separate those few from the rest whose phones are paid for by their parents?
That said, I say if the kid's paying for the phone his or herself, the rule is unfair. But how to separate those few from the rest whose phones are paid for by their parents?
That's completely stupid. Break is break, they can use their time how they like. Besides, how are you going to enforce such a stupid rule? Cameras in the toilets?
Obviously I meant without harming others. 99% of phone usage isn't harming others. And do you have to be so damned rude?Milli said:
My high school let us use our phones before/after school (while waiting for first period/waiting for our busses or parents or whatever) and during lunch, but that was it. I think the reasoning was that we can't really be effectively stopped from using them at lunch, but using them during school hours could seriously risk people texting test questions or whatnot to each other.
They can text each other the answers to tests. I know, kids did it at my school and so the school got serious.
Really? Wow. And I thought my school was anal for making us get changed BACK into our uniforms after evening rowing training (instead of - you know - just walking home in our own clothes). Apparently it was to "maintain the image of the school". *eye roll*
But yes. No idea. Schools just have odd rules sometimes.
But yes. No idea. Schools just have odd rules sometimes.
I think everyone's over-thinking it. You can't really ban Cell phones, because that would require backpack searches and the like, and plenty of anger when kids need to call for rides, receive emergency calls, etc. But ban using phones most everywhere, and kids won't take out phones in the first place, they won't get caught up in a texting session as they go into class, and with any luck, out of sight, out of mind.
Well, at my school, freshmen and sophomores have to use their frees for study halls. How about you try that? I get between 50 & 70 percent of my work done in study halls. And that gives me more time to screw around here on the escapist when I get home! I mean, what do you think I want to do a ton of homework when I get home or watch Zero Punctuation and have other fun on the internet when I get home?
My school has a cell phones allowed policy. With today's technology I use my phone to store homework and due dates as well as contact my teachers. If people don't want to pay attention then fine but if they fail the class it is not on the teacher. Simple.renegade7 said:
It's a blanket rule it's a lot easier to enforce 'no phones ever' than 'phones are okay sometimes.'
Then you have kids arguing that it's their break. Or not wrapping up their calls. It's just more headaches. Not to mention. Who the hell are they talking to? I mean theoretically other than family members shouldn't everyone in their phone also be in school? (generally, not as a rule)
Then you have kids arguing that it's their break. Or not wrapping up their calls. It's just more headaches. Not to mention. Who the hell are they talking to? I mean theoretically other than family members shouldn't everyone in their phone also be in school? (generally, not as a rule)
That's great and all, but this is about people not being able to use their phones in school, period. How does that fit in your theory? You seem like the kind of person who would walk through a high school telling couples to stop holding hands or kissing because it 'makes the lonely kids feel inadequate.'Milli said:
You're taking this 'tar them all with the same brush attitude' to mobile phone use, but if that's the case I've got bad news: we're gonna have to ban phones from everywhere cause guys at work used to show me videos of gypsy fights on their phones, thinking it was hilarious.
Once my friend texted me a video of midget porn while I was at Burger King. Oh shit, can't have my phone in fast food places anymore.
And, for reasons best kept to himself, my flatmate texted me a photo of his cock while I was home visiting family, so I guess that's me estranged now, too.
Thanks a lot, man; now I'm a hermit.
Most schools don't care if you get your phone out in break time, but some schools don't allow it, simple as that. It's just luck of the draw that your school is the one that doesn't allow it.
Sneak them out imo.
Sneak them out imo.
Because any illicit activity that goes on while on school property during school hours is officially the school's problem. Example, if a student is using their phone to communicate a drug deal (which happened A LOT at my high school so no I'm not going way out in left field for this) then the school can be made legally responsible for it. At least, that's happened here in Texas. It's the school covering its own ass, that's all it is.renegade7 said:
Cell phones aren't part of a conductive learning environment. Especially when you are trying to mass produce education on a national level.
I think Mark Twain was right: ?The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.?
I think Mark Twain was right: ?The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.?
That's where I stopped reading. Probably 2 key reasons:renegade7 said:
1. Reduction of theft and alteration of the phone. I had fellow students who actually WENT THROUGH my shit and altered my voice mail message just for the fun of it. Guess I was an easy target.
2. Preventing of phones going off during class due to being left on between classes and disrupting a class in progress
Stupid reasons? To you probably, but in the long haul it's not going to affect you that much and probably will help you out. You're gonna learn as you get older that you wanna leave 'work' at 'work' and have fun at home.