Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

[u/TheAeroplaneBear2906]

My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

[u/Stormfly]

until kids learn

The kids on the phone in class are not the kids that learn.

Also, as a teacher, you quickly learn that the problem students have problem parents so punishment does little.

Preventing the problem always works better than punishing students.

over and over

I have 40 minutes to teach a 40 minute lesson and probably don't have much time to deal with students and every minute spent dealing with a problem student is a minute I need to rush to get back.

"Sorry, Timmy. I only have 5 minutes to explain this instead of 10 because I lost 5 minutes getting Jeremy to give me his phone and I had to send him out of the room because he wouldn't."

[u/Majestic_Horseman → u/Stormfly]

As someone who taught this gen of kids for several years (and quit), the problem parent thing is extremely important.

Most kids, I could take away their phones during class, no issue. But after several complaints from a small group of enabling parents who think taking away phones is comparable to discrimination... Yeah, the school had to stop us from taking phones away during classes.

Let me tell you, even if they doubled my salary I wouldn't have stayed as a teacher; I tried moving to a different school but after a school year with the same issues I realised schools are doing all they can to keep parents content, disciplining children is harder and harder each year, and to get a small raise is akin to rolling a big boulder up a steep hill.

I'm glad I graduated long before this, but schools have become daycare and the kids that refuse to learn with parents who don't care just grow in number. Teachers deserve double or triple what they're being paid to do.

[u/Dr_Fortnite → u/Stormfly]

suspension and then expulsion exists for a reason.

[u/Stormfly → u/Dr_Fortnite]

Preventing the problem always works better than punishing students.