In a case near me, I know a middle school teacher who has to negotiate with students for lectures: "We'll do 20 minutes and then you can do 5 minutes for a phon

In a case near me, I know a middle school teacher who has to negotiate with students for lectures: "We'll do 20 minutes and then you can do 5 minutes for a phone break." Without this, the classroom cannot be controlled. She says without knowing when the next phone break is makes them very nervous, and very difficult to retain their attention. This is a classroom in a "good school" area, extremely high funding, all kids claim learning disability to get advantages, and parents come down on the teachers. The school bureaucracy is deeply anti-teacher, and allows parents to treat them this way. I definitely agree that it is a failing of the school itself. I have another friend who is a science teacher, but he doesn't have exciting stories like this.