To me, it seems the best answer is to confiscate the phone for the duration of the school day, then give it back to the kid at the end of the day. Maybe you send a note home or something so the parents know what happened, and that next time, the phone will be confiscated for a longer period, a week or whatever.
Just communicate with the parents....an involved parent will nip this in the bud quickly. That's the best solution for all. (And one job I imagine that's harder than a school administrator.....is being a parent.) On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, if I was a school administrator I'd hate my job. On one hand > you have people complaining that a schools policy is too strict (not > trying to call you out Dana). On the other hand, you have people > complaining that there's not enough control in the classroom and the > schools needs to exert more authority. > > The teachers are trying to get rid of a distraction in the classroom. > 9 times out of 10 if the phone is given back to the parents, the > thing's gonna turn back up in class the next day. So, do you want to > spend extra money to install detection equipment at the door so that > all cell phones can be gathered up each day and then pay someone to > distribute them back at the end of the day. Or say, maybe you'd like > your child's phone to be confiscated and kept so that the teachers can > get back to the business of teaching. > > -- My word's but a whisper Your deafness, a shout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254858 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
