Originally posted by 99SESPORT:
If you are a teacher, you walk up, and you ask a student using a cell phone to put the phone down...He looks at you very defiantly and says "It's my mother in Iraq!!" How the crap is the teacher supposed to know the difference between a mother in Iraq and a drug deal? Eh? Exactly...
The teacher should err on the side of caution. Besides, someone saying their mother is in iraq and on the phone is a bit unusual and could easily be verified.
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The rule is no cellphone use during the school day...All the teacher knows is that the student is using a cell phone, therefore completely within her rights to stop the call...
The teacher can request the student stop the call but has NO right to physically remove the phone. That kind of act should be reserved for administration only.
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I'm not taking any responsibility for this away from the teacher, but don't take it away from the student either...
He could have made a better decision and contacted a teacher immediately about the phone call, and things may have gone a little differently...
The call was made during his lunch hour, therefore he wasn't in a class to begin with! The teacher shouldn't have done anything since it wasn't in class and it was a rather minor infraction. The teacher should have requested the student stop, when he refused, the teacher should have THEN contacted the administration.
Last edited by PackRat; 05/07/05 12:13 AM.
