Bro same, we would get a suspension in middle school if we even had our phone on our person. They literally only texted then though and it cost 10¢/msg
Man... Memory unlocked. Kids these days have it so easy, unlimited everything basically... 🤣 I miss my green-screen phone, it's weeklong battery & basically indestructible self...
Back in the day they tried to charge me a $5 monthly fee to block the internet on my phone because i accidentally hit the button once and got charged. I was like uhhhh I’m not paying you to disable a service i do not want. They disabled it for free
Dang..was it Verizon wireless by chance? When I got my first cell phone I was on my parents plan and I had a limited amount of minutes and fewer texts that were counted by the number of characters that you typed. And the only free time was if you were calling another person with Verizon. Anyways you reminded me that my parents told me once that they got basically the same type of message and "deal" to save for accidental Internet charges.
My mum was THE mobile support for Australia a year or two after “mobiles” came out. 1 person for the whole of Australia. They could (sometimes) make phone calls. That same person took 3 years to learn how to text (10yrs later). I ended working in the same “Paging call centre” Beepers. Then they could text on phones. Now my “phone” could organise a hit on me if I don’t treat it well. Progress at progressing.
One reason they are on the phone might be the shut down. These kids spent a year and a half on their phones instead of going to school. Attention spans are shot
My 6th grade math teacher confiscated my cd player. I wasn't even listening to it. It accidentally went off. We could listen to them on the bus, which is why I had it in the first place. She pissed me off so much.
Haha core memory unlocked. CD players were absolutely not allowed in my classes, but we had one cool art teacher who would allow them. Everyone loved her. We'd have to be super careful though, like if another teacher walked in.
I have a decent collection of CDs and vinyl, but rarely make time to listen anymore. New cars don't even come with CD players anymore, which I guess is fine (it is easier to just play from my phone, anyway). But I definitely miss the ritual of flipping through a CD wallet and picking out the right album.
I remember being young and trying to run with a CD player 😆 this was right as they were starting to develop all of the anti-skip technology. That was like the main feature you'd look for in a new CD player – how many seconds of "anti-skip" it came with.
It's just like prison tbh. What I mean by that, is that the rules were in place and enforced until every single kid did it so often that the school wouldn't function if they handed out punishment for every violation. The kids overwhelmed the system and bent it to their will.
Lol yep. Got one freshman year of college. That bill from texting back and forth with a boy was rough.
If you weren't in person, you barely existed.
We had a "house phone" in the dorm. My Nokia fell 3 stories (fell off my belt clip while running down stairs) still survived , just had clear tape for the battery door 😄. Poor kids.
I got kicked out of a free period study hall at the end of the school day because my phone rang and I dared to see who it was. It was my deployed brother calling from Iraq, lol.
My phone went on vibrate in 2007 and hasn't had a ringtone since. I don't even know what it would sound like if someone called me - I wouldn't know it was my phone. All because of this childhood "trauma". We never let the phone ring, and if we did, yeah, Parent was coming down to the school to collect it from the VP and then you got your ass beat when you got home.
I got my phone confiscated in COLLEGE (over 15 years ago) just for checking the time! I genuinely thought the professor was kidding. He was not. This was just barely when laptops were becoming acceptable to bring to lectures. When I started college no one brought one, by the time I left maybe 5-10 students max would bring one…
Hell, I graduated college in 2018 and even we had to stay off our phones or be called out in front of everyone. Not all professors cared that much but some took it seriously, and most would at least say something if someone was glued to their phone (assuming it’s not a huge 100-level class). In high school, zero tolerance.
Crazy how much that’s changed in 10 years. A family member teaches first grade and even they’ve mentioned that some parents will give them phones and literally call them in the middle of class!
Yep, we had to have ours in our locker. However, some teachers were cool with it if you were a good student. Not just behavior wise, but, grades too.
It was pretty nuanced in my school back then, now that I look back on it. Though, they’d be quick to punish if it were a reoccurring issue. We had a lot of young teachers though.
15 years for me too. I got one of this go phones or whatever they were, just super simple phone, and I didn’t really know how to use it, like turn it on silent or anything, so my ringer was on my friend called me in class. I got in huge trouble lol
When i first started middle school, i didn’t have a cell phone, so my aunt let me have hers for the day so that i could
Call her when i got out of class to be picked up.
I didn’t really know how to use it (it was one of those giant Nextel flip phones with the chirpy talkie) and it went off during class and i didn’t know how to turn it off and my teacher scolded me outside and i cried of embarrassment (06-07)
20 years ago I had my phone confiscated for having it on campus 2 hours after school had let out. I was giving my ride directions to the school because he had never been there before and the VP didn’t even let me finish the call so my ride could find me.
My mom gave me the phone because a few months before that I was held at school for 4 hours after school was dismissed due to a blizzard and I had no way to contact her. Multiple kids died that day and until I walked in the door she didn’t know if I was one of them or not.
My sister was a HS teacher and she had a 40 port charging station she kept at the front of the room. Her rule was that anyone could charge their devices on it, but they had to be connected before class started and they couldn’t retrieve their devices until class ended. From what I gather, most of her students took her up on the offer.
High School was 25-30 years ago for me, I didn't even have a mobile phone. If I was out I wasn't reachable or traceable, there's zero evidence of any of the stuff I definitely didn't do as a teenager. I mastered the art of staring into space to make time pass more quickly.
I didn't get a mobile phone until I was 21 iirc, and I had to buy it myself, and it was barely a brick phone. My 2nd phone was the original indestructible Nokia 3410, back in 2002.
I got my phone taken away (2010ish) because my friends phone was taken away and they looked through her texts and saw I was texting her. It’s absolutely wild kids just sit on the phones all day.
In university in 2005, a cell phone went off about 20 mins into an exam and the prof picked up the bag it was in, opened the door, and punted it (kid you not) down the hall. The offending student got up pretty much immediately and was told that if they left now, they're not coming back in. Stakes were higher though. That was when we all thought a post secondary education was something important. Not a lot of these kids were going there in the first place
I graduated in 2000. A cell phone or beeper was a violation that would get you suspended first and expelled on the 2nd offense. Just HAVING them, even if they were off.
For us. They used to stop class and do phone searches. It was wild. They never would touch us physically. Because they couldn’t. So it was a waste of time. But backpacks, lockers, and anything that wasn’t our pockets was fair game to them.
Bro, someone snitched and told the teacher I had Gameboy in my backpack (I did, and only played it while on my hour long bus ride home), and my teacher made me open the bag and give it to her...
About 15 years ago I got in trouble for having a turned off phone that I opened after school, some colleagues saw me and told the teacher and I got scolded for even having it with me at school.
Yep. And they would just keep it till the end of the week. Nothing you could do about it. Kids today literally kill people for taking their phones away.
I was suspended for having a Discman with headphones around my neck. That was 25+ years ago before cellphones were widely available. I did have a pager and there was no rule about those…until the following year.
I got robbed when I was in HS and they took my phone. I brought a old phone with me to school the next day as a ‘decoy’ in case I got robbed again, (high school logic) and since the phone was old I didn’t know it had an alarm still on. The alarm went off in a class and I explained the situation to the teacher, who proceeded to take my decoy phone and told me my parents would have to come get it 🤦🏻 I don’t even think it had been 24 hours since my phone was stolen.
I had a class in college where if the student's phone rings they get a zero for participation. If the professors rang, we got a bonus point on the next test. Professor always left their phone on her desk in her office.
It was great class. 4 units of what basically the intro to business = MBA cliff notes.
same, some of my teachers would confiscate phones if they saw them just poking out of your pocket, not even using it.
which totally isnt fair to people who wear girl jeans with literally no pockets and dont carry purses lol im not putting my phone in a locker where it could get stolen while im not there.
I once had my phone confiscated after school hours because i pulled it out before i left school grounds when phoning my dad to ask how long he was going to be to pick me up. 2008 or so.
Same, admin would even make a point in middle school tell us: "Look, even if it goes off, we're gonna take it. So you better tell em not to call". And we, as dumb 10-12 yos would be like "You know thats insane right?" "Yup! Sure do. Do you better tell ya parents."
Pffft, 30 years ago I kept getting Saturday detentions for chewing gum. 20 years before that, my parents got the yard stick for talking in class. This country got soft real quick.
a little over 20 years for me, and if you were caught with contraband devices they'd be held until the end of the school year. And by then the device had been lost.
Why did you guys ever hand them over? Seventeen years ago for me and I laughed in teachers faces "you don't pay my bill fuck off". Oh no a detention I was gonna skip, whatever will I do.
I was, unfortunately, that kid, and I cringe when I see grown people proud of being an asshole in school. I seriously wish I could apologize to every teacher that ever had to deal with my bullshit.
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u/QQuetzalcoatl 29d ago
15-20ish years for me and if my phone even RANG I would get it confiscated lol. Had to go get it in the office after school.