What on earth is the purpose of our children having a cell phone in the classroom. For that matter, do teachers need phones in the classroom as well?
We send our kids to school to learn, not to chat on the phone. We pay our teachers to do a job, teach our children, not to worry about who is trying to get ahold of them during class time.
As I see it, cell phones are little less than a nuisance in the classroom. A distraction that disrupts both the teachers ability to effectively teach, and our kids ability to effectively learn.
I can see that safety or medical school personel carrying a cell phone, but not any teacher or instructor that is on our kids time in class.
Kids should have use of their phones on their personal time, for needs such as making travel arrangements and what not, but not during their learning time.
I heard from one of my friends children that a new ringtone, which is not audible to adults, but only to children has now been developed. Where will it stop?
My feeling is that if a kid gets caught with a phone in the classroom, their parents should be fined. Increasing infractions should result in larger fines, to suspension and perhaps even expulsion. If kids cant respect this, and simply dont care to learn in a classroom, let them find another place to "hang out".
Teachers shoud receive disiplinary action as well. Fines and misconduct reports may do just the trick. If a teacher dont want to teach, perhaps they would be suited to some other occupation.
The classroom is a place of learning, not telephone conversations and what ever media teachers and childeren have access to over their cell phones. Kids need to learn, and teachers need to teach. After all, isnt that what we expect out of our tax dollars?