Middle and high school students in an Alabama school district are now required to lock away their cellphones in pouches before the bell rings. NBC News’ Marissa Parra has the details as schools across the United States implement new rules to prevent students from going on their phones in class.
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(FACTS OVA FEELINGS). Back In School They Din't Teach Us What Wee Needed To Know Like How To Deal With Despair or a Broken 💔
That’s a pretty big risk right now. He better hope no one takes advantage of the fact y’all wanted to be on the news promoting the idea (and your virtuous egos) because if there’s anyone wanting to make some trouble, guess where they’ll go first.
Sounds a lot like Hawaii’s alert system & water turn off blunder to me- especially when it’s lives at stake.
I feel like this could be easily defeated if you just bring a strong magnet with you
I guess us millennials were the last generation to not have phones during our teen age years.
what happens if there is an emergency like a shooting or a fire, and no students are able to access their phones because all of them cannot possibly make it to those magnets in time
I wish phones were unbanned in Montgomery public schools.
All good til an emergency happens . We live in crazy times .
Let these kids have their phone its not like they're gonna be doctors or lawyers anyways lol i see alot of future uber drivers and convicts.
I agree with this just to enforce discipline. BUT in reality, all information being taught in schools are available in a click away with smartphones. Calculus and Physics concepts are easier to grasp most of the time with youtube than actual classroom set ups…. This is why majority of the students are bored with slow, sometimes not straight to the point delivery of topics in a classroom. I mean financial literacy is not even taught in schools unless otherwise it is a course…
Nope. A successful school would integrate technology into the lesson plan. You'd be hard pressed to find an individual without access to a smart phone, especially in a country with affordable connectivity plans. Shouldn't you be creating citizens who can operate in society, not limit students freedom to use every resource available to them? (To say nothing of the personal security a phone may afford.)
This is more an issue of classroom management than teaching or learning. Hold students accountable for their behavior and use the phone as the tool it's meant to be, for the good of the students not the convenience of the teacher. It should be a short learning curve to do so.
My best advice to parents these days is to homeschool…and this comes from a former teacher.
Why wasn't this done years ago by every school in the world?
I’m a teacher and have been for 14 years. I am here for it. I love seeing children interact with each other. It’s totally different from interacting on the phone. You can contact the school or teacher in case of emergency. My opinion 🫣
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs didn’t allow their children to use any device, even the ones they pioneered, for obvious reasons …
I think it’s a dangerous situation should a shooter invade the school, the parents would want to communicate with their child. The parents need to step up and instruct their child not to text while in school unless there is an emergency! 😮 “Mom I’m alright” etc. 😊 it’s not the schools responsibility! It also limits free speech, First Amendment! Mom I’m dying there is a shooter in school!
This is actually a great idea.
I do believe this is positive, but one day these schools are gonna be caught with a school shooting and it will change their methods. If no one can call the police what you think is gonna happen.
We weren't allowed to use phones during school to listen to music.
I brought a pocket cd player and a walkman…
I’m glad they didn’t have this when I was in school. I need to be able to contact someone I know when I need help and record if necessary. I also didn’t see any laptops or anything to merge technology with learning. It seems like they are using an outdated teaching models.
We are in a technological era and they are still using pen and paper.
As you can see, the kids said nothing about emergencies they just want be on tic tok, msg each other, and cheat. Thats why their is school staff to call police in case of emergencies. They dont need 100s of kids calling 911 cause I'm sure dispatchers cant handling all the calls at once.
Good, middle and high school kids are on the phones too much as is during school hours, they are there to learn, not be on the phone, hopefully, more schools and districts make a similar choice, to actually educate the kids vs just babysitting they
Good for them! About time! It is ridiculous the mockery kids are making of teachers. Let alone the extreme cases of violence against teachers for a cell phone. Kids need to re-engage socially. They don’t think they need that and that Snapchat is a substitute; but it is not.
She said cheating well I guess she was honest. Lol
I think it’s a good idea. I know there can be emergencies sometimes but back in the day we didn’t have phones. And there would be emergencies here and there wether it was a family or just at school. If phones were never made kids wouldn’t know what it would be like not to have phones. All I had was a beeper. And even those we weren’t allowed to have. If we got caught with one it got taken away and one of our parents would have to come and pick it up.
"If there's an emergency how can I reach my child?" um…the way your parents had to when you were in school…Calling the school. The way it should be.
Those bags are dumb. Just put the phones in a locker or in the students ' bags.
Locking cellphones away while in class…..we've been doin that for like 2 decades. Just now it's on the news.
I think it’s cruel to punish everyone. These pouches should only be for frequent offenders. This way, it teaches kids self control instead of being over controlled.
Did they not know they can watch tv and scroll threw messages on the apple watch? lol
Innovation 🎉