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AIBU?

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Teachers should ban the use of smart phones in school

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viridus · 10/12/2016 12:00

Schools are so hypocritical, they say that phones are only used at lunchtimes, but allow them to be used in class.
Education is becoming corrupt and education and fairness has gone. Children who have cheap phones see this and are ridiculed. Teachers stand by allowing these things to happen. After all, it is also them who allow bullying to continue too.

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TheZeppo · 10/12/2016 12:03

Eh?

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 10/12/2016 12:03

Riiiiiight...

RedHelenB · 10/12/2016 12:04

I think schools have different policies . Get to CEX and get your kid an acceptable phone!!?? Or alternatively encourage them to realise that it doesn't matter who has what and it's the person that counts.

Topseyt · 10/12/2016 12:04

icetip · 10/12/2016 12:04

Teachers should ban the use of smart phones in school

Heratnumber7 · 10/12/2016 12:05

I am a governor.

The school would love to ban phone use in the classroom. But you have NO IDEA how many parents object to this policy. They come up with all sorts of reasons why they and their children HAVE to be able to contact each other at any hour of the day.
I can't think how people manages pre-mobile phone

Sirzy · 10/12/2016 12:05

What??

Trifleorbust · 10/12/2016 12:05

How many 'teachers' and 'schools' threads have there been over the last couple of days? Did it inspire you to write this one, OP?

For what it's worth, I agree with you. The only reason my school allows students to have phones is that parents refuse to send them in without them. Wouldn't stop me but the school can be a bit wimpy that way.

blankpieceofpaper · 10/12/2016 12:09

~fond wave to the Daily Fail journos and hangers on~

I teach. We have some parents who ring their children in lessons - and they answer. "It's my mum - I have to answer!" Clearly, IABU. Whatever. Gives me a chance to go back to planning my holidays.

Trifleorbust · 10/12/2016 12:14

blankpieceofpaper:

I answer "I don't care if it's the Pope." And I confiscate it.

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viridus · 10/12/2016 12:15

What is the point of talking/messaging your friends in the class by talking over a student who is trying to work? Hence disturbing students who want to learn?
I see that it is the ignorant parents who allow these phones and their use in class, but the education system have allowed this to happen.

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corythatwas · 10/12/2016 12:18

Dc's schools always managed a policy where all phones had to be handed in to the office at the start of the day.

This dealt with the issue that some children might need to reach their parents before or after school, but that there would be no need to do so during school hours without going through the school.

Well organised, well managed, and not in any way hypocritical.

Munstermonchgirl · 10/12/2016 12:21

Is this the week people find out they've been turned down for teacher training or something? Hilarious how many school- bashing threads there are at the moment

SnatchedPencil · 10/12/2016 12:24

Banning mobile phones from schools would be a great idea but impossible to police. Teachers could confiscate phones but would have to give them back to the parents, parents who don't see a problem with their child having a phone in school and will probably give it back to their child.

Mobile phones facilitate bullying and harassment of pupils and teachers alike. Like so many technological inventions they can be used for evil as well as for good, and children cannot necessarily be trusted to only use them for socialising with their friends or keeping in contact with their parents.

Mobile phone jamming in schools would go some way to stopping children using phones for sending texts when they should be studying, but it would not stop a child videoing a teacher or other pupil so they can upload the footage to humiliate or harass them later.

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viridus · 10/12/2016 12:26

Corythatwas - your school sounds sensible, we were not as fortunate.

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KittyVonCatsington · 10/12/2016 12:30

Dc's schools always managed a policy where all phones had to be handed in to the office at the start of the day.

This dealt with the issue that some children might need to reach their parents before or after school, but that there would be no need to do so during school hours without going through the school.

Well organised, well managed, and not in any way hypocritical.

Ha ha ha! Care to explain how this could be organised in a school of 1600 students??!!

And wasn't there a thread a few weeks ago where a parent was complaining that their child's phone had gone missing, because of this?

blankpieceofpaper · 10/12/2016 12:31

Hand in over (potentially) 600 phones to one school office? That would not be possible for our admin team.

amispartacus · 10/12/2016 12:31

DS knows that phones are banned in class. There are very strict policies in place if you are incapable of following the simple rule of no phone in class. Isolation is the first step.

It's not a hard rule. DS is capable of putting his phone in his locker. It's very useful thing to have.

LindyHemming · 10/12/2016 12:34

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december10th · 10/12/2016 12:36

*Dc's schools always managed a policy where all phones had to be handed in to the office at the start of the day.

This dealt with the issue that some children might need to reach their parents before or after school, but that there would be no need to do so during school hours without going through the school.

Well organised, well managed, and not in any way hypocritical*

until the inevitable happens and the school give the wrong phone to the wrong student

Scooby20 · 10/12/2016 12:37

Our school has a no mobiles policy. If they get seen, they get removed. I'm reality the school don't mind them being in kids pockets, turned off. But if they are out they are confiscated and kept until the end of term or until a parents comes and picks it up.

None of my friends kids schools allow them out during lessons.

Perhaps the teachers at your school don't feel the head will back them up or that too many parents will kick off.

MaureenMLove · 10/12/2016 12:37

Ain't gonna happen. It's impossible to police it. If I had a penny for every time I've said 'put your phone away' I would be a very rich person.

amispartacus · 10/12/2016 12:38

It's impossible to police it. If I had a penny for every time I've said 'put your phone away' I would be a very rich person

Why not give them isolation if they have their phone out?

DoctorDonnaNoble · 10/12/2016 12:40

Not every school has 'isolation' ours doesn't.

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viridus · 10/12/2016 12:40

Imagine having to go to work every day and try to do your work while the latest drama is discussed in the room every day and your manager/boss does nothing about it.
Seems to be acceptable/the norm for under sixteen year olds these days. No wonder teachers leave the education system and children leave with poor grades.

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