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You don't have to search the students. Or even put the phones in a locker. You just make the rules about them known, and if students are found using a phone dur
by TheCoreh 2y ago
You don't have to search the students. Or even put the phones in a locker. You just make the rules about them known, and if students are found using a phone during class, they can just be punished with detention/suspension.
I don't understand why this is hard to enforce, or requires special laws. We had rules about not using (feature) phones back when I was in middle school (~2002), and you just kept your phone in your backpack/pocket until the class was over. It worked.
- coryrc 2y agoIn Seattle they won't even expel students committing violent crimes in schools. There's no punishment available for any behavior. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/student-discipline-are-schools-equipped-to-handle-behavioral-extremes/ https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/student-discipline-are-... If someone brandished a knife at my workplace they would be immediately fired, never to return. At SPS that's just a stern talkin' to.
- thfuran 2y agoThat's weird. I've mostly heard about the opposite at schools, like someone getting reamed for bringing cake and a plastic knife to cut it. But I guess that was probably over a decade ago. Has 'zero tolerance' so thoroughly reversed?