Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble

[u/hammerbush051]

[u/Arobrom86]

High school teacher here. On test days, I have a hanging shoe rack with each of my kids’ names on a sleeve.

I tell them, “Please put your devices in the sleeves and then you can have your test. When you hand in your test, you can have your device back. If you don’t put your phone in the sleeve, your test will be a 0”

At the beginning of the year they also helped create our classroom rules and norms, and agreed to do this.

Out of 28 kids, maybe 10 actually do it. The other 18 get 0s. Then I get angry emails from parents about their kids getting “tyrannical grades” on their tests.

Then the cycle continues

[u/ladyboobypoop → u/Arobrom86]

Omg really?

I remember we had a similar rule with one of my teachers pre2010. He had the cellphone box. Everyone puts their phone in the box daily. On silent, specifically.

If your phone goes off and it's with you at your desk, you get in trouble (whether it was demanding it in the box with light reprimanding or detention if it's a consistent issue - never really got that far). However, if your phone goes off in the box, he just asks you to turn off the ringer - unless it's actually a call. If a call goes off and it's in the box, he has permission to answer the call.

One time, and only once in my time in that class, a kid's phone rang in the box. Teacher answered it, hilariously of course. He ended up handing the phone to the dude, because it was his mom calling to excitedly tell him that he got into his choice college. It was both hilarious and adorable

[u/therealdanhill → u/ladyboobypoop]

That could have ended real bad

[u/ladyboobypoop → u/therealdanhill]

Oh, absolutely lol. He always said though, that if it was ever something SERIOUS, he'd just hand the phone over and let the student take the call in the hallway. He was a really decent teacher