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My wife is a High School Teacher, and I am currently temporarily substituting across our large city in different districts the middle and high schools. I am telling you and agree with the principal 100%.
The kids these days starting from middle school are completely addicted to these social networking and cell phones. I have picked up about 5 cell phones(their parents had to pick up in the office and pay $15) and given about 250 warnings for kids to put there cell phones away. It is hard for me to enforce as a substitute as I don't typically have the same kids each day, but it seems most teachers just let them use them.
It completely consumes them during class and some kids look like they are going to go into convulsions from putting there phones away. This is the same for social networking sites when they are in the classes with computers in front of them. Oh BTW, kids all know how to find a proxy site nowadays so blocking things on the router seems ineffective. I would love to see some sort of signal blocker for cell phones during class time.
My wife is a High School Teacher, and I am currently temporarily substituting across our large city in different districts the middle and high schools. I am telling you and agree with the principal 100%.
The kids these days starting from middle school are completely addicted to these social networking and cell phones. I have picked up about 5 cell phones(their parents had to pick up in the office and pay $15) and given about 250 warnings for kids to put there cell phones away. It is hard for me to enforce as a substitute as I don't typically have the same kids each day, but it seems most teachers just let them use them.
It completely consumes them during class and some kids look like they are going to go into convulsions from putting there phones away. This is the same for social networking sites when they are in the classes with computers in front of them. Oh BTW, kids all know how to find a proxy site nowadays so blocking things on the router seems ineffective. I would love to see some sort of signal blocker for cell phones during class time.