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I don't think he should have destroyed the phone...but the student was DEAD WRONG.
I'm a middle school teacher and I tell my students to keep their phones on vibrate and out of sight. There's always one knucklehead who thinks I'm playing--I end up taking his/her phone battery and returning it at the end of the day.
I know a middle school teacher who has a bucket beside the door. When her students come through the door 1st thing in the morning, they shut their cells off and place them in the bucket (unless there is a note from a parent stating that something particular is going on that day and the student must have the phone - she's reasonable anyway). The room is locked when she isn't present in the room, and the phones in the bucket are also placed in a locked drawer if she steps out, so theft has not been an issue. The students check their messages at the end of the day when they leave. Meanwhile, the parents are given the office number to call should an emergency situation arise during the day.
I don't think that cell phone situations need to be this complicated. There are rules in life and teachers should be able to implement reasonable rules in their classroom - to include not using a cell phone. People who break employer rules (for example, stealing, or drinking on the job) get fired. What a missed "real-life" educational opportunity.
That said, I think I mourn the loss of common courtesy the most.
IMHO, the sole purpose of a student, be it in public, private, or secondary school is to learn - not to yack, not to do anything that is disruptive to others or to the teacher/professor [granted, this coming from a guy that in middle school was accused of "making barn yard animal sounds" during class I was framed I tell ya, framed!!! ]. Anyhow, can also recall a college prof that if he caught anyone chewing gum they'd receive extra assignment. To me, specifically to the subject matter of this thread, cell phones are way too prevalent in schools. They can perform great emergency benefits - but honestly, how often does such happen, compared to the vast numbers of phones out there? - but way too often they are nothing more than a social device, and as soon as a student comes on to the property for learning, these devices should be muted, and not used unless a true emergency arises.
Yep. I have to agree with that. Unfortunately, IMHO, cell phone addiction is becoming worse than crack addiction.
I got my kids the Kajeet cell phone, we can control when its active, when it can make and receive calls, whom they can call and who can call them. Its set so no calls can occur during class time. But I do want them to have one active going to and from school, also, for after school activities, for security purposes. My daughter, however, is obsessed with the thing, she's constantly texting, the school rules are that any phone that's displayed during school will be confiscated, it can be redeemed for $15. Well, she had to be the big shot, displayed it during lunch, could not have been using it because its not active during school hours. But she knew the rules NOT to even display it. It was confiscated. so now I have to pay $15 to get it back. I think not. I will just be paying $15 every time I turn around. The school has it, it can stay there. Also,I turned off the service, why pay for service when you don't have a phone?
Despite all the safeguards we put in place, she still managed to violate the rules, so, she loses the cell phone. For emergencies, they can always borrow someone else's and call me, or, they're always under someone's supervision, a teacher, etc, they can call me. Other than a true emergency, they don't need to be yakking on that thing, anyways.
Another out of context question with no simple answer. Perhaps this student has repeatedly done this and been asked to refrain from bringing in his cell phone? Perhaps there is a strict rule about the use of a cell phone in classrooms? Perhaps any number of scenarios?
If I had been the teacher, I might have taken the phone away--probably wouldn't be angry enough to break it.
Ban the student from the class.
Someday this scrawny tyrant will try this little stunt with a student who will kick his a$$ right then and there.
The professor sounds like a psycho. People put way too much adoration onto professors. It is sick.
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]. Anyhow, can also recall a college prof that if he caught anyone chewing gum they'd receive extra assignment. To me, specifically to the subject matter of this thread, cell phones are way too prevalent in schools. They can perform great emergency benefits - but honestly, how often does such happen, compared to the vast numbers of phones out there? - but way too often they are nothing more than a social device, and as soon as a student comes on to the property for learning, these devices should be muted, and not used unless a true emergency arises.
