Cripplecreek: Apparently you missed 9/11 and/or have no children. Take your head out of the sand. Parents need to get a hold of kids in a dire emergency like that or natural disaster. No reason the teachers can’t penalize for misuse.
I guess I just had parents who were responsible and taught me the difference between wrong and right. (And yes that includes refusing to strip down for a teacher)
If you don’t and aren’t, you are part of the problem and should consider this conversation at an end.
Tens of millions of students went to school for decades without cellphones.
Oh BS. Should the emergency arise, they can stop the test and the little angels can run a grab their phones. Yeesh!!
And how on earth did parents get a hold of their kids before cell phones?
Yes, there were dire emergencies and natural disasters BEFORE cells. How the heck did we survive?