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The parents in my classroom
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- Title
- I'm a High School Teacher. Here's How the Parents of My Students Make It Impossible for Them to Focus.
- Authors
- Liz Shulman
- Published
- Mar 9 2024
- Word count
- 1717 words
Totally agree. As a retired educator this level of surveillance, to put it plainly, would drive me batshit crazy. Can you imagine the roles being reversed? Where a teacher could watch a parent livestream at their work and make comments on their performance or conversations in real time? No parent would stand for that. Neither should a teacher.
I get that some parents, particularly in the US where school shooting have been much more common, are intensely worried about staying in communication. But give those kids a little breathing room! At the very least, if it was my classroom, I would insist, not ask, insist that phones stayed in their pockets and out of sight for the entirety of the class.
That was our policy when I was teaching. If students were using their phone in class, it was confiscated til the end of the class. If it happened a second time, it was confiscated til the end of the day. If it happened a third time, the phone was locked up in the principal's office for a week. And you've never seen panic like the look on a kid's face when he knows he's about to lose his phone for an entire week. I think they would've preferred public flogging.