(September 27, 2011 at 10:17 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Well, I'm not. I'm arguing with an old codger about education and whether cell phones should be confiscated in schools or not. I'll make a new thread.
They shouldn't be.
Elemetary-middle-high schools are places you are made to come to for the purpose of learning. You will almost never retain something if you don't care about it. If you find your cell phone more interesting than your classes: the school has failed to make you care about it, and all that taking your cell phone away will do is to cause (further) resentment towards authority and to detach you even more from the material.
College is on your own head... a teacher might find it pointless (as do I) to text-chat in the middle of a class, but even then there would be nothing good accomplished by a(n) (extremely out of jurisdiction) removal of their cell phones.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
