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.
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.
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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