Are Cell Phones Allowed In Schools?

Discussion in 'Parenting' started by RainyDayHype, Jan 25, 2015.

  1. RainyDayHype

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    I was just in high school "about" 10 years ago... lol. And high school already seems so different now. I was just watching a preview for a movie and everyone's head is down, on their cell phones. Now this has me wondering if cell phones are allowed in school.. Can someone with high school or middle school aged children tell me if cell phones are allowed in school. I remember, only a few people had cell phones while I was in school and they had to be turned off and put away in back packs until after school. If they were brought out, then they were confiscated. My kids are toddler aged but I'm already worried about them being in an environment like that... too much technology, it seems.
     
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    This is the movie trailer I was watching. It looks depressing, but I plan on watching it soon.

    http://youtu.be/MHMqpwnUazY
     
  3. AceK

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    when I was in high school phones had to be turned off and if the teacher heard ur phone there was a good chance they'd confiscate it but some teachers would let u get away with more. smart phones weren't really popular yet and I think the first iPhone came out around the end of high school cuz I remember a kid that had one and it seemed insane to spend that much money on a phone but now that's the norm.
     
  4. YouFreeMe

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    I think the policy is still the same.
     
  5. I'minmyunderwear

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    the high school kids at work claim that they can only use their phones at lunch time. of course, i can't verify if that's true or if they're just trying to avoid being called in for an after school shift.
     
  6. RainyDayHype

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    I think they should be allowed to be brought to school and put away... they should be used for emergencies and if you need to call your ride after school or something. But, I don't think they should be allowed to use them freely for recreation during school.. it's too distracting.
     
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    Yeah, that makes sense... maybe lunch time is allowed... But even then, don't you think they'd wanna socialize with their friends at school? ha
     
  8. RainyDayHype

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    Maybe they're just not as strict about it anymore because teachers and faculty realized there's no winning.... just in movies, kids text freely in classrooms and hallways..
     
  9. Nope. When I was in high school, you werent allowed to even bring the phones in, let alone use them. Not even during free periods.
     
  10. deleted

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    cell phone did not exist when I was in high school. thank god ..
     
  11. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    When I taught high school cell phones were not allowed to be used during class time. If they were seen by the teacher they could be confiscated and given back at the end of the school day.

    But then it was found kids couldn't get to their buses on time at the end of school and other kids were stealing them out of the teachers' desks so a new policy was implemented.
    Teachers could still confiscate the phones but they had to take them to the office by the end of the day in a manila envelope properly labeled and placed in the teacher's mailbox so that the students could pick them up. If they were stolen before they got to the office the teacher was in trouble.

    But then kids started stealing them from the teachers' mailboxes. So the next step was to call the office and have a principal come and confiscate the phone, take it to the office and lock it in the office safe until the end of school, then the principal would give them out at the end of the day. But the principals would seldom show up when called as they were usually in court, arguing with parents, or at the administration building getting yelled at.

    So that never worked and the teacher ended up looking like an idiot for trying to implement an unenforceable rule.

    In fact none of it worked because if you saw a phone and said "You're not allowed to use a phone during class time", the student would just say "It's not a cell phone", while they were using it, then slip it into a pocket which meant that the teacher would have to again call a principal who seldom showed up, or the resource officer (school cop) who would, and he would have the same argument with the kid and end up having to arrest him or her if it escalated enough or haul them out of class for a search which would involve finding a female administrator in the case of a girl and a witness in any case so he could protect himself from a lawsuit and the kid would be back with the phone the next day anyway because they all have to have a phone or they could possibly die or something...so I just retired a year earlier than planned.
     
  12. Meliai

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    There was a 0 tolerance policy when I was in school, if you were caught with one anywhere, even at lunch or in the halls, it was taken away and you didn't get it back until the end of the year. Hardly anyone had one though. I remember making calls at lunch on the school pay phones.
     
  13. xenxan

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    lol me too. They were the size of an ammo box that was strapped to your shoulder, so very impractical.

    Those were the days when the main worry was whether our 4wd was going to make it down to our fishing camp site with our keg safely upright and not be all foamy when we tapped it..
     
  14. His Eden

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    My daughter, a high school senior, goes to a high school that typically allows cell phones. Basically they are not allowed, but trying to stop kids from having them was pointless, so they allow it, but are harsh when the privilege being given is abused in any way. The rules for their use depends on specific teachers for the most part. Some don't mind them, IF they are not a distraction and the student is caught up on their schoolwork. Other teachers forbid them and confiscate them until the end of class. It varies and is generally up to the student to follow the rules. Students can have their phone privileges banned if they abuse the policy, or are caught looking at anything not suitable for school. There are places they are NOT allowed for ANY reason; library, gym, locker room, swimming pool, etc. Using them in those locations results in instant detention, ban from having a phone at school, or suspension for 2nd offense, or taking inappropriate pictures, etc. If the student engages in anything illegal (porn, drug talk, bullying, etc, the cops are given the phone and the parents must meet with them.
     
  15. PunchDrunkKitten

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    A mere three years back, in my central florida school system, phones were allowed on campus and taking calls ect was permissable during lunch period or between class changed (provided it was a quick call) but use during class for any purpose was not allowed and after an initial warning the phone was confiscated till end of the period, a repeat offense would have it confiscated and given to the office staff where a parent had to retrieve it at the end of the school day.
     
  16. JuneTweedy

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    I think these days they do allow children to carry cellphones to the school but they have to put it away till the school is over.
     
  17. AceK

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    a smartphone is useful for using google in class to look things up (or if your a dumbass reading facebook to increase your probability of failing the exam), and weighs a lot less than a laptop, and I avoid carrying more weight than I have to if I don't need to. Different professors are different though with policies on attendance and such, a lot of them don't really give a fuck what you do with your phones as long as it doesn't interrupt their lecture. I can take notes on a laptop a lot faster, most professors talk really fast, too fast for me to write legibly at that speed ... but typing math, or graphs and curves and such on a laptop is a lot of trouble and slow so I can usually take better notes with good old fashioned paper and a "rainbow set" of highlighters to help create various type of "abstraction" within my notes. There's a way to optimize this, it involves

    I think most professors would object to actual phone conversations during lecture though, they would tell you to please leave the room until you finish the conversation. And of course phones aren't allowed during exams, but it's probably more accurate to just say that google isn't allowed, or just simply: cheating isn't allowed.

    This is in University though. High school is some draconian bullshit, and there is no room for intellectual self-expression, which is also bullshit. No wonder people are so fucked up, and this is half the reason I dropped out; I'd already taken all the required core curriculum (I'd taken biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and several semesters of math, plus whatever else was required) so the rest of my classes would be mostly worthless "fluff" electives. Highschool is bullshit. Not allowing cell phone use between classes! That's absurdity, what the fuck difference does it make when you're not even in class. High school treats students like prison inmates or some shit, like I think if you have to take piss in high school you have to ask pretty please and maybe they'll let you leave to go take a piss and not piss yourself if the teacher isn't mean. This is so fucking backwards because it actually wastes more lecture time to ask this irrelevant question than it does to just quietly go take a piss without disrupting the class, and having to take a piss makes it pretty fucking hard to pay attention to anything except trying not to piss your pants. I'm sure if I was in high school today they would expel me because if a teacher told me I couldn't go take a piss I would probably say okay, and then just piss my pants, getting piss on the seat and not give a fuck. Plus I'd probably do nasty things to their computers, which I did some of in high school (like deleting projects stored on the network directories of students that I didn't like) but today I would probably do worse things like delete the teachers grade books or some shit, I'd find a way to get the credentials I needed; probably using social engineering, sending memos from email addresses of faculty or some thing. Been a while since I was in High School but I wouldn't be surprised if they have lowered academic standards since then so that more stupid people can graduate.
     
  18. MeAgain

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