Use a hand held scanner and take the phones. Only let them get the phone back if a parent comes to get it. At our school mosquito ring tones are not the problem it is the video capability of the phones and the kids are uploading scenes from school onto my space or Face book. Go online and search for your school, or students and see if you have some of this going on. This is the real problem with cell phones because with online usage it becomes a violation of civil rights, and the school is on the hook since they are the governing body. Ban the phones or this could be in your future. If parents come up saying, "my child needs this for after school purposes", they can use a ground line, just like we did growing up. If you have a parent that will not budge on the topic, then let their child carry one so long as it is turned off. The first time you find it turned on during school hours take it and black ball that student from cell phones. Title One Teacher
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Thu 3/5/2009 2:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LIT] High-Frequency Ring Tones = Trouble in the Classroom! I am so old...I was thinking that high frequency ring tones were the ones most commonly used! :) Sue -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 2:42 pm Subject: Re: [LIT] High-Frequency Ring Tones = Trouble in the Classroomn! It is a shame that we have to waste our time combatting things like this. We should be teaching. :( -----Original Message----- From: TLP <[email protected]> To: MT <[email protected]>; Lit Site <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 8:15 pm Subject: [LIT] High-Frequency Ring Tones = Trouble in the Classroomn! There is a high frequency "mosquito" ringtone/noise that those of us over 30 years of age can not hear. Kids are so ingenious. They have figured out how to text each other in class and the teacher has no clue what is going on.. We need a detector! Is there such a thing? If not I bet we could finance this site with the proceeds! Tena _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org <http://www.literacyworkshop.org/> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org <http://www.literacyworkshop.org/> To unsubscr ibe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org <http://www.literacyworkshop.org/> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
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