Posted on 11/02/2022 9:52:35 AM PDT by vrwcregistered
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — More Philadelphia schools are locking cell phones in pouches during the day so students can keep their phones with them — but they can’t use them in class.
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So they can’t call the police when the next shooter starts......................
If this is really about preventing distractions from learning, they are about 15 years too late.
It is to prevent teachers from being recorded in their CRT or gender dysphoria lessons.
The whole idea of giving smartphones to children is reflection of mass idiocy worldwide.
Exactly, we need cameras in the classrooms.
“So they can’t call the police when the next shooter starts......................”
So you make a stupid comment because you didn’t read the first sentence ................................................................................
I spent decades teaching in an urban public high school. Near the end of my career cell phones became a real problem, and it had nothing to do with recording. I always favored transparency; cameras in the classrooms, in the hallways, in the lunch rooms, etc. If anyone wanted to record my lesson, go for it.
Anyway, the big problem with cell phones was the disruptive calling. Kid is sitting in class, and his phone rings. “My mom is calling. It’s important. I’ve got to answer this!”
Or, kid takes out his cell phone. “I’ve got to call my mom. It’s important. I’ve got to call her now!”
In the early days of widespread cell phone use, these incidents were rare. Principals would crack down hard, and the students knew it. But principals today are more concerned with social justice. Bad teacher for not taking all of the student’s needs into account!
Like rude little kids who are taught to defy their teachers are going to give up their cellphones.
So, you didn’t read the article.
Why are you trolling me?
So true. Kids having cell phones is a no go to me. I kept my granddaughter during the Zoom school lockdown. I just about had to glue her to the kitchen chair. She was using her cell phone for wifi. I had to stand over her to keep her from watching tick tok or other garbage. After the first day I took the phone away from her once the laptop was connected. Oh the distress. Wi Fi won’t work from over there etc. Like many she is permanently attached to her phone. Her mom’s the same way. Nana is mean and a Luddite.
There’s a lot of smell in here but one issue that irritates school administration is the use of the phones by students to diss other students in social media or diss the school system itself.
Schools have “anti-harassment” and “anti-bullying” policies in their pantheon of legalistic structure-wokeness and political correctness.
When I went to high school in the 1970’s I took my device with me every day but never used it during class time.
It was a transistor radio.
Nobody worried about it or locking it up.
Distraction is a problem for students nowadays yes but there’s more in this picture from my perspective in the direction of what you are saying.
FYI The reporter doing this story is literally an old colleague of mine thumbs up for Mike DeNardo a Murrow Award Winner.
Easy. Carry two cell phones.
They should have done this years ago. Disallowed phones in school, like Pokemon cards or marbles back in my days. Take them away when found, and put in a box. Give them back at the end of the week, they are a distraction.
The feature of this is like you describe. They are going to be indoctrinating children, and they don’t want it livestreamed. There will come a day when a child will carry a bug, maybe someone will plant a camera in a classroom and we can see the teachers in all their glory.
Until then, we need to push for all classes to be livestreamed and available for parents of the children to “look in” any time they wish to monitor what is going on. If they have nothing to hide, why do they hide?
Are you Echo?
And the observation by the poster in post number 2 is a good one.
By not allowing the students access to their phones it does prevent the student from calling 911 in case of danger.
You attacked him for not reading the first sentence but it is obvious that you did not read the first sentence or any part of the article before jumping in.
I just pointed this out.
So, you didn’t read the article.
Teachers will have unlocking devices. But you really want the kids paying attention to the teachers and following emergency instructions rather than dicking with their phones in an emergency.
or parents can give the kid a neodymium magnet and they can open the damn thing whenever they want to.
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