Human rights, threat to headmaster who seized mobile

Well if the school bans the use of phones and she decides to check her messages, she should face the consequences and she knows the rules! I agree, phones are disruptive and hinder the learning process!

Emergencies

[quote=Hummus]

Well if the school bans the use of phones and she decides to check her messages, she should face the consequences and she knows the rules! I agree, phones are disruptive and hinder the learning process![/quote]

I agree with that but some students may need it for emergencies

She was checking her phone for messages, thats not an emergency!

And to any other student, if they were in such an emergency they can use the schools phone!

[quote=Hummus]

She was checking her phone for messages, thats not an emergency![/quote]

I mean in general

OK, I honestly CANNOT believe that I'm saying this.

I agree with Lollywood on this.

 Not even handing it to parents is theft and could endanger someone by cutting off communication in an emergency. Most people don't carry the school phone around do they? Is it not possible to regulate using a phone but not ban it like they did?

I wonder how dangerous the world was when kids didnt have mobile phones.

People cant have survived in such an environment.

It's not really the same thing is it? Comparing it to times when people *didn't* have phones. Now it's just expected for everyone to have phones. And kids are given phones just becuase of the safety reason - parents need to be elsewhere kids need to go school alone etc - so it's just the best way to keep in contact.

I haven't read the article but these rules that some schools have are ridiculous. My friend got her phone taken off her for the first time and even though they say for the first time you can get it at the end of the day, this teacher made the school keep it for a month - over the Xmas holidays!! My other friend is actually one of those people who texts all the time etc so she got her phone confiscated twice. Now fair enough but they kept it for 3 months!!! (she got a replacement phone but that's not the point!) and the credit goes to waste and really it's just ridiculous, especially since I'm talking about Sixth form students!

And my other friend's phone genuinely just fell out by accident but the teacher refused to believe that and took it until the end of the day...what if it happens twice, then they'd take it for a month or something!

How would you try to control students and make them focus on their lessons instead of texting their friends?

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How would you try to control students and make them focus on their lessons instead of texting their friends?

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Personally, I'll do what Carol used to do. I'll keep a box on my desk and get the kds to put their phones in it as they enter the class.

and if they dont put it in there?

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and if they dont put it in there?

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They may not want to initially, but if it's school policy that you must do this and the culture of the class is to do this, people shouldn't really have an issue with it. I know there's still ways around it if the student in question is a wanna be rude boi. They may have more than one handset and only put one in the box etc... But it'll reduce the problem of not concentrating etc by about 87%

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How would you try to control students and make them focus on their lessons instead of texting their friends?[/quote]

Warn them that phones are for break times only and if they don't listen then thry get them back at the end of the day

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So you would take away there phone for 3months even during their HOLIDAYS, that's just stupid. It males the students angry and hate the teachers but those who want to text will continue textig even after that - just like my friend still does. It is just a ridiculous rule.

Phones are a distraction and schools need to find a nice way to encourage students to not use them in class. I think not having it for a few months, is really, really harsh, especially if the parents have come to collect it.

In our school, you hand your phone in as soon as you step into the main doors and you collect it at the end of the day. Simple. If during the day you need to phone someone, you use the school's phones and they do let you. If for some reason you 'accidently' took it into class and used it, it would get confiscated. It'd be returned as soon as your parents got their verbal reminder and ta-daaah, you've got your phone back.

Then, theres the other thing! Undercover phones!

Yh that's fair enough.

But we're sixth formers so they allow us to have them on us but then tell us for having them out even in corridors or canteen -___-

I seriously can't wait to leave. 😃

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But we're sixth formers so they allow us to have them on us but then tell us for having them out even in corridors or canteen

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Well whats the point of that! When do they expect you to use it then?