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> For 70% of the students this will be enough to ensure they don’t use one Lots of schools ban cellphone use, but students find lots of ways to abuse this rule
by mlyle 2y ago
> For 70% of the students this will be enough to ensure they don’t use one
Lots of schools ban cellphone use, but students find lots of ways to abuse this rule.
Indeed, when you start to collect phones at the start of class, you find a pretty big share now have burner phones to turn in, so they can still sneak peaks at their phone or take it to the restroom.
- Auracle 2y agoThat’s still pretty different from openly having it out during class.
- mlyle 2y agoSure, the students I work with don't openly defy (though I hear a lot about this from public school colleagues). They turn in burner phones and then are super sneaky to try and use their real phone during class.
- ChainOfFools 2y ago> sneak peaks at their phone or take it to the restroom on that note why the shit are students permitted to leave the testing area during critical exams (midterms, finals) , ostensibly to use the restroom. but with phone in pocket, obviously more than a few are googling test answers as well? I've personally witnessed this multiple times over past few years and it makes no sense.
- pkulak 2y agoProbably the eighth amendment.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoPeople have, for the past thousand centuries or so, somehow managed to eliminate their waste without carrying an internet-connected pocket supercomputer.
- pkulak 2y agoOkay… I’m just saying that restricting access to a lavatory sounds cruel and unusual. If you meant to say that we can prevent phones from also entering said restroom, then that sounds great. I have my doubts that it’s possible, but I’m fine with that solution in general.
- Aeolun 2y agoFaraday cage will become a standard installation in schools pretty soon. Of course it’s even easier for the parents to just not give your kid a phone