Cell phone use in school - evolving, finally?

[robinb]

Did it end up making a letter grade difference for a scoring period (Semester)? If it affected her overall grade and dropped a letter I'd still bring it up, she is still at the same school and her transcripts are all there - they can still "fix" it and make sure the teacher doing this does not continue to do this to other students.

Yes, it did effect her semester grade. I'm just going to let it go.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I thought of this thread when I saw this today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...om-shoots-disobedient-children-s-iPhones.html

 

[robinb]

I thought of this thread when I saw this today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...om-shoots-disobedient-children-s-iPhones.html

O-M-G . What a delightful family. Using iPhones for her shootin' range isn't going to solve a darn thing.

 

[CookieandOatmeal]

Yup, I felt the same way.

The teacher added an "assignment" called "Cell Phone Use" to the calculations at the last minute (literally after the quarter ended and right before the end of the grading window) worth 100 points. So, the possible score for "summative score" went from about 550 to 650. Most of the students were given a bonus of 100 points while my DD received a 0. I know of one other child who was given 50 points instead of 100 but the teacher contacted her mother part way through the quarter and she straightened up and flew right and only lost half of the bonus. So, different kids doing the same thing were handled differently. *sigh* What's funny is that this all happened just about a year ago as 3rd quarter just ended.

It also rubbed me the wrong way that the teacher was so happy that she got my DD's attention with the punishment. The teacher promised to "work" with my DD and if she did everything perfect in the 4th quarter she would get an "A" but that didn't happen. She did stay off her cell phone, LOL.

This crazy! This would definitely not fly at the high school I teach at. Phone use is technically not allowed at my school but sometimes I allow students to use them for educational purposes and the admin is ok with that. In your daughter's case, the teacher should have warned the class about cell phone use and how if she sees it, she'll take it for the period or hand it in to the office where they can pick it up at the end of the day. That is what I do. I actually will give a verbal warning and if I see it again, I take it for the period. Penalizing a child by lowering her quarter grade a whole letter grade is outrageous.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I thought of this thread when I saw this today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...om-shoots-disobedient-children-s-iPhones.html

Wow - that is over the top!