Student Arrested For Classroom Texting – February 17, 2009<\/a><\/p>\nAs a teacher I applaud it. Here\u2019s why. I\u2019ve been there. I\u2019ve been the teacher with a kid that wouldn\u2019t behave and I believe it was handled exactly the way I would handle it.<\/p>\n
a) kid is texting in my class<\/p>\n
b) I tell kid to stop \u2013 they don\u2019t \u2013 I ask for phone<\/p>\n
c) I don\u2019t get it, so I call security and have them deal with it<\/p>\n
I finish teaching and no longer have problems with that child. I have no idea what the consequences are because I\u2019m no longer involved.<\/p>\n
Now that sort of thing happened when I got the lovely position of teaching repeating Algebra I. A special set of Algebra I classes for students who had failed it before. Oh, and I had 30+ students in each class. Blame Katrina for that part of the problem. <\/p>\n
That school year I held the record for the number of referrals. Oh, and by the way I have the reputation of being a very strict and very good teacher. I usually write less than 5 referrals a year. I think I am at two now, and both times the kid walked out of the class on his own.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what happens now:<\/p>\n
a) kid is texting in my class<\/p>\n
b) I say: please put the consumer electronics away (avoids the not a cell phone argument).<\/p>\n
c) kid puts it away and I get on with teaching.<\/p>\n
Difference: I am teaching Computer Science and my largest class in 28.<\/p>\n
And by the way, I had the highest Classroom Effective Indexes in the school with the above group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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