School Cell Phone Rules

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by epchick

IDK

IDK my BFF Jill?


Sorry - I found that acronym funny in a thread about cell phones.


Carry on.

[SWTXBelle]

I was teaching when cell phones became common. I usually gave kids one "freebie". If it rang again, I'd take up the phone, and go give it to the headmaster. The parent would have to come talk to the headmaster in order to pick it up.
I didn't have a problem with the phones in school as long as they were turned off. I knew that I would want my daughters (they were too young at the time) to have phones when they were older.
My favorite phone story - I'm giving a final when a phone rings. Andrea gives me a panicked look."Answer it", I say. It turns out to be HER MOTHER. Where, I ask you, did she expect her daughter to be at 10:00 in the morning on a school day? We laughed about it, and she turned the phone off.
Kids. I don't know what's wrong with these kids today.

[NUBlue&Blue]

I used to volunteer at the front desk at the HS and until the last two years there were supposed to be no cell phones in the school. First offense, parent had to pick up phone and student had Saturday school. Second offense, the phone was school property until the end of the year. This rule was in place when cell phones were mainly used for making drug deals (along with pagers, etc.). When oldest daughter was a freshman, her friend got Saturday school for standing in the parking lot calling her mom to pick her up from band. Puh-lease. (this was in 2001)

Now they can have them in school as long as they are off and kept in backpacks. I don't work in the office anymore, so I don't know what the current punishment is for using them. I know the teachers used to pick up lots of them during lunch and in the bathrooms between classes. My favorite was when a freshman's dad came in to talk about her phone getting confiscated "because we didn't know she couldn't have it in school" and she called him from somewhere in the school on somebody else's phone while he was at the desk talking to us. Another time a mother called and wanted us to page her daughter so she could get another mother's cell phone number from her friend. When we refused to call her to the front desk to take this very "important" call during school, she said "well, I'll just have to text her and if she gets in trouble it will be all your fault!"

[ForeverRoses]

My niece was telling me that at her high school, they have to put their backpacks against the wall away from the desks during tests. I never thought about it before, but I wonder if that helps cut down on the cell-phone as a cheating tool?

And I was in HS school when CarPhones where the big thing. If I remember correctly, they were actually installed into the car and where HUGE. I think the handpiece even had a wire connecting it to the base. Ahh, the good old days.