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Old 01-31-2018, 10:54 AM
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Default Cell phone chaos

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Originally Posted by mulligan View Post
Real simple. AS you walk into the classroom, drop your phone into a steel box. If you are caught with a phone on your person, you get a "0" for the day in that class. Add up a few of those, and you fail. Problem solved.
Sounds like a good idea but imagine the chaos when they get another students phone out of that box. In the unlikely event of a shooting, parents want their kids to be able to communicate with them and the students “feel safer” with their phones. It’s a complicated issue.
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