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The pollsters broke the numbers down and found that students send 110 texts a week during class time, which equates to over three texts per class. The study also determined that half of all students have used their phones to either store notes they can consult during a test, or to text a friend for a test answer. Only half of all the students polled believe this phone cheating to be a "serious offense."
Perhaps what's missing is some teacher and parent interaction. Sixty-five-percent of students admit using their phones during school, while 77-percent of parents believe their innocent little babies study cell phone-free. We're not sure of how else to address this issue, as a majority of schools have already banned the use of cell phones. The actions of one Canadian principal, who used a jamming device to disable his students' phones, definitely don't seem so extreme now, though. [From: USA Today]
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Subscribe to commentsJosephZMAN63Jun 21st 2009 12:35PM
Of course they text daily. Why do you think they are coming out of public school with no education? They aren't listening to their teachers, that's for sure.
MichaelJun 21st 2009 2:38PM
R... Really? I could have told you this without a "study." Hell, in my school, I can think of maybe... 3 or 4 teachers who really care. It's easy for teachers to know when a student is texting but most don't care. I've had teachers tell us how they know, notice it, and just ignore it. Is a girl looking into her purse for an extended period of time without moving anything? Yup, texting. Is a guy looking over the side at his pocket with his arm all the way down? Yes, he is texting.
I'm going to be a senior in high school and I've never texted in school. I think the concept of anything more than short conversations is stupid, but still, if a teacher would just enforce the rules, there might be some hope. (Keep in mind I don't want to blame teachers entirely. It's a new problem, and a multitude of issues have led to it.
bimotarichJun 21st 2009 8:10PM
Most teachers DO care but are unsure how to deal with such a wide spread problem. Here in Japan it is a problem as well (in fact probably worse as cel phone prevalence and sophistication is generally greater here). It is complicated by the fact that there are legitimate uses for cel phones in class (they often contain dictionaries and students can access the web to get class related information, students often take pictures of board information and calendars etc to use as notes... etc). It seems to me that policing a class and teaching a class are also different skills and not all teachers (or even most) have both skills in equal doses. I love to teach, I hate to police. And cel phones are small and easily concealable... it takes real vigilance to catch every student using one. And to identify the purpose of use is not easy either. The other option is to make an example out of each student caught, but that hardly seems fair to that student... and indeed might not be what is best for that student. It is a difficult situation. I have suggesting banning the phones but their prevelance it too great in schools here and their legitimate uses are too important to ignore. It almost feels like prohibition times... there is too much penetration and not enough will amoungst the students to make any kind of ban realistic.
lhgraphicsJun 22nd 2009 9:03AM
you can't text in school if you don't have a cell phone. My kids don't have cell phones. They're not missing anything.
Kay SmithJun 27th 2009 3:21PM
I am a middle school math teacher, and I catch students weekly texting during class. Sometimes it's answers to a test that their friend is going to be taking later in the day. The students I have are really good at avoiding responsibility and finding ways to circumvent the rules, but they are very low in common sense and work ethic. Our district rule is that students may have phones on campus (per the Supreme Court's rulilng), but phones must be off and put away out of sight. If students are caught with the phone on and out, the phone will be confiscated and a parent must retrieve it. The second offense means the student is not allowed to have the phone at school. I actually had a student text ME during class one day (I had called her mother on her phone once, so she had my number). The worst offender was the 8th grade student who received a call during the state Algebra 1 test, pulled out his phone, and proceeded to look at all the pornographic pictures a buddy had sent him. Nothing happened to him. He wasn't disciplined, he didn't get a lecture or a suspension. Mom, however, took the phone, looked at the pictures, and dropped it on the floor, stomping it into a broken mess. She vowed he would not get another cell phone from her. It's a problem that isn't going to go away. When you see elementary school children talking and texting on the way to and from school, you know we've lost the battle as educators.
sabrinaJun 28th 2009 8:00PM
i text in class all the time but to cheat on tests is only obviously cheating myself i love passing regents at end of the year when a cellphone vibrate is a automatic zero where did that knowledge come from?
demondragondeathFeb 1st 2010 7:54PM
I'm only in middle school but i think this display of idiocy in a classroom is a sign of disrespect and rebellion in the classroom. I mean come on think about it. Teachers come and waste their own precious time in a classroom and for what? If the idiots arent learning anything how are they going to survive in the real world? I highly doubt that there is a single job in the world other than typing a court sesion that requires the qualities of texting. Something else I'd like to point out, I dont own a phone and i'm perfectly fine without one thank you. Texting is one of the whole reasons that the world is in the state it's in at the present time, so i beleive. If anyone agrees with me on this issue i would be exceedingly grateful for a supply. ( by the way, if you're wondering about my broad vocabulary, i actually listen during classes so i learn alot more than the others in my class)