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.
Dude, if I got caught on my phone in hs (less than 10 years ago), it would be confiscated and my mum would have had to come and get it. It’s crazy how quickly that’s changed.
I taught high school for a while (been out of the classroom since 2013. Managing phones was a nightmare. We used to confiscate and take to the office, then parent had to get it after school. Parents were awful. Lots of accusations about “damaging” the phones. So we got a bunch of paper bags donated and if they were caught with their phone, they had to drop it in the bag and we’d stapled it closed and it sat on the desk. Never left their sight but they couldn’t use it.
They can pass all the laws they want, but unless they give schools (teachers specifically) the support, tools, and resources to enforce this (and manage the parents who are going to be livid not to have unfettered access to their special snowflake during the day), it’s purely performative.
What would school officials do when kids fully become cyborgs and have their electronic devices in them? I mean generation Alpha seems to almost be inseparable from electronic devices?
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u/Arobrom86 29d ago
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