HOUSTON - Some Houston ISD Madison High School students staged a walkout on Monday morning after a new cell phone policy went into effect.
Last week, the school announced that students would no longer be allowed to use their cell phones at any time in the school building starting this week.
The preferred way to deal with the little bastards is spelling out the "no phone in school" regulations with a proviso: "those caught with a phone will be re-educated". Then when, not if, anyone is caught the administration should call a school assembly string up the naked offender by their ankles on stage and beat them unconscious with a baseball bat. Common sense says when you're dealing with a herd of little turds you cannot be subtle.
Yes. Public school is already child abuse, and one of the reasons they're doing this is to prevent anyone from documenting their grooming. But let's give them the power to literally beat children to death, too! Homeschool or die. And try to remember, no matter how delicious your masters' boots are, they're not a healthy meal. Bootlicker.
Anon@9:25 you're either an idiot or just trying to start an argument. Those phones aren't used to document abuses, they're used to watch TikTok videos, text their friends or cheat. A cell phone is a distraction and has no place in a classroom.
"At any time in the school building" includes lunch time & breaks? That's bullshit & overreach. Why not have phones off & on desk in plain view in classrooms? CC
At last a sensible suggestion that does not involve beating or woodchipping. Fail them. In my country school attendance is only about 60% (although I hear motivated smart kids study online because the schools are so useless) and way less for the special people. The world is going to teach the lazy and their enablers a hard lesson.
Yep. I'm finding out the hard way that on-campus classes aren't worth the commute, stress, exhaustion, etc. College itself is a waste of time but not enough people respect self-taught + achievement yet.
The difference I'm being paid from the GI bill between full time online and full time with an on-campus class is chewed up by gas. It's not sensible for me to commute 3-4hrs per week just to listen to someone spoon feed me the book for ~two more hours when I can read it myself. I don't mean to throw shade at my professor, he's arguably the single most intelligent professor I have met thus far, earned a PhD in his field, and runs a great class; it's the education system itself that's broken. If I continue then it will be fully online.
I think the problem with phones and fights is not that the phones contribute, but they document, they publicize, they go viral with how out of control this school is. TBH, all schools.
It's simple, declare a Zero Tolerance (like they did for lots of other things) policy and confiscate the phone if it's being used then return it at the end of the school year or a week or some period of .....OR...your could install Cell Phone Jammers and let the staff use land lines for emergencies.........
The Cell Jammers are a no go. Prisons used to have them until the FCC, I think, said they couldn't use them. So now all the prison gangs have cell phones.
Rules on not allowing phones, confiscating phones, etc. are problematic as they require physical action which create legal liabilities and confrontational situations.
Cell phone jammers are a good solution and they're controllable and passive. One downside is that teachers will lose their lifeline of an in-room phone. Don't think for a second that some of the school's denizens would use that knowledge to their advantage. Unfortunately, jammers are regulated by the FCC and are generally illegal in the USA.
Ding,ding,ding,ding! Best solution yet! The phones can still be used as recording devices to document faculty abuses and classmates undressing in the gym/bathrooms. Of course, the problem with signal jammers is that it's against the law (FCC dictates its unlawful to purposefully restrict the transmission or reception of radio (wireless) signals of any frequency.)
This is an asinine policy. I use my cellphone routinely in my on-campus classes to snap pictures of white boards, documents, and to turn on my hotspot for internet so I can access my book on my laptop. Yeah, textbooks are so screwed up now, we "rent" digital books. Obviously my professor has a policy in his syllabus about off-topic device usage, although it's not strictly enforced, but no one has stepped out of line yet or made it an issue.
The preferred way to deal with the little bastards is spelling out the "no phone in school" regulations with a proviso: "those caught with a phone will be re-educated". Then when, not if, anyone is caught the administration should call a school assembly string up the naked offender by their ankles on stage and beat them unconscious with a baseball bat. Common sense says when you're dealing with a herd of little turds you cannot be subtle.
ReplyDeleteYes. Public school is already child abuse, and one of the reasons they're doing this is to prevent anyone from documenting their grooming. But let's give them the power to literally beat children to death, too!
DeleteHomeschool or die. And try to remember, no matter how delicious your masters' boots are, they're not a healthy meal. Bootlicker.
Anon@9:25 you're either an idiot or just trying to start an argument. Those phones aren't used to document abuses, they're used to watch TikTok videos, text their friends or cheat.
DeleteA cell phone is a distraction and has no place in a classroom.
"At any time in the school building" includes lunch time & breaks?
DeleteThat's bullshit & overreach.
Why not have phones off & on desk in plain view in classrooms?
CC
Simple. If they miss too many days over this, fail them.
ReplyDeleteAt last a sensible suggestion that does not involve beating or woodchipping. Fail them. In my country school attendance is only about 60% (although I hear motivated smart kids study online because the schools are so useless) and way less for the special people. The world is going to teach the lazy and their enablers a hard lesson.
Delete@ Anonymous February 8, 2024 at 10:18 AM
DeleteYep. I'm finding out the hard way that on-campus classes aren't worth the commute, stress, exhaustion, etc. College itself is a waste of time but not enough people respect self-taught + achievement yet.
The difference I'm being paid from the GI bill between full time online and full time with an on-campus class is chewed up by gas. It's not sensible for me to commute 3-4hrs per week just to listen to someone spoon feed me the book for ~two more hours when I can read it myself. I don't mean to throw shade at my professor, he's arguably the single most intelligent professor I have met thus far, earned a PhD in his field, and runs a great class; it's the education system itself that's broken. If I continue then it will be fully online.
- Arc
I think the problem with phones and fights is not that the phones contribute, but they document, they publicize, they go viral with how out of control this school is. TBH, all schools.
ReplyDeleteIt's simple, declare a Zero Tolerance (like they did for lots of other things) policy and confiscate the phone if it's being used then return it at the end of the school year or a week or some period of .....OR...your could install Cell Phone Jammers and let the staff use land lines for emergencies.........
ReplyDeleteThe Cell Jammers are a no go. Prisons used to have them until the FCC, I think, said they couldn't use them. So now all the prison gangs have cell phones.
DeleteRules on not allowing phones, confiscating phones, etc. are problematic as they require physical action which create legal liabilities and confrontational situations.
DeleteCell phone jammers are a good solution and they're controllable and passive. One downside is that teachers will lose their lifeline of an in-room phone. Don't think for a second that some of the school's denizens would use that knowledge to their advantage. Unfortunately, jammers are regulated by the FCC and are generally illegal in the USA.
Ding,ding,ding,ding! Best solution yet! The phones can still be used as recording devices to document faculty abuses and classmates undressing in the gym/bathrooms. Of course, the problem with signal jammers is that it's against the law (FCC dictates its unlawful to purposefully restrict the transmission or reception of radio (wireless) signals of any frequency.)
DeleteThis is an asinine policy. I use my cellphone routinely in my on-campus classes to snap pictures of white boards, documents, and to turn on my hotspot for internet so I can access my book on my laptop. Yeah, textbooks are so screwed up now, we "rent" digital books. Obviously my professor has a policy in his syllabus about off-topic device usage, although it's not strictly enforced, but no one has stepped out of line yet or made it an issue.
ReplyDelete- Arc