I have mixed feelings about the necessity of this.
On the one hand, I know they don’t really need the cell phones, because they didn’t exist when I was in school.
On the other hand, the kids who are paying attention to their cell phone rather than the teacher probably wouldn’t listen to the teacher if the cell phone wasn’t present, either, and some of them would be far more disruptive toward other students who are trying to listen.
On the third hand, expecting the kids to pay attention all the time even if they’ve already mastered the subject and are bored out of their skulls by the repetition needed for the kids below the class median to have a chance of understanding too is a problem in and of itself.
Fortunately, I am not a teacher, a student, or the parent of a student, so I have no horse in this race and am not required to make a decision on whether the bans are useful or just obnoxious.
FallenGrove@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My schools all banned cell phones from middle to high school. If one would go off or if you were caught by the teacher, they would confiscate it and you’d have to pay money to get it back by the end of the day. It was really funny watching kids covering each other no matter who you were if someone’s phone went off in their backpack. We’d all start collectively coughing and making loud sounds to cover it up. Teachers for the most part were pretty relaxed on the phone going off in your backpack policy though. They only enforced the policy if you were caught using your phone during class.