This is why you should never answer your cell in class

[Jen]

One of my teachers left their phone on, incase they got an emergency call. It happened about five times over the semester... But none of them were emergency. He'd just answer in the middle of a lecture and leave the room.

In that class, you can bet everyone was prank calling everyone elses phones.

[Nessa]

o_O Wow, that's weird. Only thing is, it didn't smash. There weren't any visible flying pieces, and it didn't make a breaking sound. It just sounded like it hit the carpert hard. More of a thud.

One of my professors, when someone's cell rings, she starts dancing to it.

I dunno, it was a flip phone like mine, so all he would've had to do was step on the pivot. Its possible he broke it, if he did, I'm sure he either had major issues with people using their phones in class, or that particular kid using his phone too much.

[Anoohilator]

That is such a stupid way to handle it.. how immature

That's like a teacher walking into the room, whispering to your teacher, and you punching the other teacher in the face in a weird sort of way...

[Nessa]

That is such a stupid way to handle it.. how immature

That's like a teacher walking into the room, whispering to your teacher, and you punching the other teacher in the face in a weird sort of way...

Immature? yes. Stupid? Yes. But I bet you $10 nobody in that class will ever think about whipping a phone out in his class again. If you're talking on your phone during class, its disrespectful to your teacher and disrespectful to your fellow students.

[Anoohilator]

That is such a stupid way to handle it.. how immature

That's like a teacher walking into the room, whispering to your teacher, and you punching the other teacher in the face in a weird sort of way...

Immature? yes. Stupid? Yes. But I bet you $10 nobody in that class will ever think about whipping a phone out in his class again. If you're talking on your phone during class, its disrespectful to your teacher and disrespectful to your fellow students.

Yes - one advantage to the stupid thing the teacher did.

As a teacher he has the responsibility to deal with the student in an appropriate way and unfortunately that was no way near reasonable. Confiscate it and give the dude a lecture - fine, don't let him see the phone for a month or so - that should teach him - but smashing somebody elses property was no way near a reasonable way to deal with it. I don't think I'd ever smash a students phone if I was a teacher - the situation would have to be dire.

[Kugetsu]

In many cases, when something like that is confiscated, it's not given back . If you're not going to give it back, then why not make a scene right in front of their face with it? It's no longer their property once it's been confiscated (albeit it's not the teacher's property either, really) I've seen it done before. The student thought they were getting their cell phone they weren't supposed to have back at the end of class, and they weren't (and it's not required that they do so) so the teacher made an example by smashing it with a bola.

A student has the responsibility of treating the teachers and fellow students with respect and keeping the classroom a place where other can learn without disruptions. 1. Don't bring your cell phone to class unless you absolutely have to. 2. If you're going to take your cell phone to class with you, then turn off the ringer. 3. If you aren't going to turn off the ringer, then don't answer the stinking phone when it rings, instead turn off the ringer then. This guy had three choices to make (the second easy to skip, but made up be the third) and he made the wrong one all three times.

The teacher isn't in the wrong any more than the student. If the student is going to be disrespectful to all other students and the teacher, then he doesn't deserved to be treated with tender love and care. Someone at that age shouldn't be immature enough to carry his cell phone around with him and answer it in the middle of class. I think it's about time someone did this. I'm sorry, but I can't feel any pity for him.

[Anoohilator]

It's probably my young age that's attributing to my decision then but yeah I'd still never do it a student that I was teaching, I'd never approve of a teacher doing it to anyone, I'd never want to see it done to anyone in my class regardless of the condition, and I'll have sympathy to anyone that I see this done to.

[Mongrel]

It may not be respectful, but I do agree that it'd be effective. I live in a city where people are rather on the rude side(this is what people at my school, who aren't from around here, have told me, and I see where they're coming from). Just confiscating a phone--even if it's not going to be given back--wouldn't stop people from answering their phones in class. It would take wanton destruction, and interruption of the call, to stop them.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

When someone's phone started ringing in our maths class, the teacher was going crazy, asking whoever's it was to turn it off RIGHT NOW. We all started laughing at that point. For about ten seconds he just looked at us all in puzzlement before he realised that it was HIS phone that was ringing XD

[WIS]

When someone's phone started ringing in our maths class, the teacher was going crazy, asking whoever's it was to turn it off RIGHT NOW. We all started laughing at that point. For about ten seconds he just looked at us all in puzzlement before he realised that it was HIS phone that was ringing XD

Heh, hilarious. xD

[The Wonder Weezel]

I set off my 2nd out of 8-or-so Senior pranks this year.... i really need to make a thread about them... im making a movie about my senior year... and all the stunts i pull

So anyway, I've spent since the middle of last year collecting cell phone numbers..... whenever somebody calls mine, ive written down the number. Whenever there was a phone list for a club or something, i wrote down every cell phone number......

And I scared the heck out of everybody in the school one day... and they didnt even know it was me! *yet*... I know of several sources on the internet that will call numbers for you at specific times.... whenever you request it.... and with these pranks, im somewhat living out my older brothers dream so he helped me also, using his phone systems at art college or something, and some of his friends, and basically we called just over 250 kids cell phones in my school right in the middle of 2nd period And I got it all one tape... from my classroom, anyway. About 7 phones started to RING in the classroom, and at least 5 went on vibrate, and other people found there phones ringing on silent... all over the school they called. It was magnificent! If i can figure out how to upload my vid onto youtube ill post a link... dear god it was priceless..... just wait until they see my NEXT stunt!

[Rachel]

In many cases, when something like that is confiscated, it's not given back .

Surely thats stealing if you're not intending to give it back??

[Anoohilator]

I set off my 2nd out of 8-or-so Senior pranks this year.... i really need to make a thread about them... im making a movie about my senior year... and all the stunts i pull

So anyway, I've spent since the middle of last year collecting cell phone numbers..... whenever somebody calls mine, ive written down the number. Whenever there was a phone list for a club or something, i wrote down every cell phone number......

And I scared the heck out of everybody in the school one day... and they didnt even know it was me! *yet*... I know of several sources on the internet that will call numbers for you at specific times.... whenever you request it.... and with these pranks, im somewhat living out my older brothers dream so he helped me also, using his phone systems at art college or something, and some of his friends, and basically we called just over 250 kids cell phones in my school right in the middle of 2nd period And I got it all one tape... from my classroom, anyway. About 7 phones started to RING in the classroom, and at least 5 went on vibrate, and other people found there phones ringing on silent... all over the school they called. It was magnificent! If i can figure out how to upload my vid onto youtube ill post a link... dear god it was priceless..... just wait until they see my NEXT stunt!

You truly are a superhero

Ahh I wish something like that would happen in my school

[Kugetsu]

In many cases, when something like that is confiscated, it's not given back .

Surely thats stealing if you're not intending to give it back??

Well, not exactly. Only if the rule hasn't been passed by the district. If it is passed by the school board (more like the Board of District, since that's actually affiliated with the state government, but that depends on where you're from, I suppose), it would say distinctly in the school's fat book of rules (and the basic student handbook of rules) something about "A student caught breaking any of the following rules may be suspended/expelled or have the item in question confiscated and returned by the will of the higher authority... blah blah blah. (but of course in more professional mumbo-jumbo than that). Then following that was a list of all of the things that were deemed innappropriate and students are made to read them, agree to them, and sign a slip agreeing to abide by these rules or suffer the consequences set up for them. Of course, there was a way to get the said thing back (aside from the person just giving it back to you).

In my school, you could hold a meeting with the school board to get it back, which usually ended up in the student getting the item back (unless the said item were drugs/pills/etc that weren't given to the nurse.) It's really too much of a hassle for the school to have to go through meetings like that if it's avoidable. No one ever really did this though, because it was a pain and they didn't really seem to care, for some reason.

But no, once an item breaks the rules agreed to by the students before they registered in the school, and is confiscated by a higher authority, then the property is technically no longer the student's and whether it is returned or not is based on the will of the teacher that confiscated it, or, if needed, the principal or super intendant. With that said, though, nothing should be done to the said item before some sort of meeting or something like that can be conducted. In that way, this guy was wrong for messing with this guys phone (I wonder if his phone plan covers "crazy teacher attacks"...)

I don't know how other parts of the world, let alone, other parts of the US do it, though, as this may just be an Illinois or district thing. I'm sure there are other parts of this country that do it, though. It's just more often than not, the student gets it back at the end of the day, no worries or problems.

[Pudding]

Argh. I hate teachers who do that. It's definitely out of proportion to the offense, and possibly illegal depending on where you are.

In many cases, when something like that is confiscated, it's not given back .

Surely thats stealing if you're not intending to give it back??

Well, not exactly. Only if the rule hasn't been passed by the district. If it is passed by the school board (more like the Board of District, since that's actually affiliated with the state government, but that depends on where you're from, I suppose), it would say distinctly in the school's fat book of rules (and the basic student handbook of rules) something about "A student caught breaking any of the following rules may be suspended/expelled or have the item in question confiscated and returned by the will of the higher authority... blah blah blah. (but of course in more professional mumbo-jumbo than that). Then following that was a list of all of the things that were deemed innappropriate and students are made to read them, agree to them, and sign a slip agreeing to abide by these rules or suffer the consequences set up for them. Of course, there was a way to get the said thing back (aside from the person just giving it back to you).

In my school, you could hold a meeting with the school board to get it back, which usually ended up in the student getting the item back (unless the said item were drugs/pills/etc that weren't given to the nurse.) It's really too much of a hassle for the school to have to go through meetings like that if it's avoidable. No one ever really did this though, because it was a pain and they didn't really seem to care, for some reason.

But no, once an item breaks the rules agreed to by the students before they registered in the school, and is confiscated by a higher authority, then the property is technically no longer the student's and whether it is returned or not is based on the will of the teacher that confiscated it, or, if needed, the principal or super intendant. With that said, though, nothing should be done to the said item before some sort of meeting or something like that can be conducted. In that way, this guy was wrong for messing with this guys phone (I wonder if his phone plan covers "crazy teacher attacks"...)

I don't know how other parts of the world, let alone, other parts of the US do it, though, as this may just be an Illinois or district thing. I'm sure there are other parts of this country that do it, though. It's just more often than not, the student gets it back at the end of the day, no worries or problems.

At least where I live, those rules aren't quite legally binding. An acquaintance of mine had her phone smashed by a teacher a few years back, and wound up in small claims court over it. The school district had to buy her a new phone.