Can You Mainline a Cellphone?

[Unkotare]

Some students are truly and fully addicted to their fucking cellphones. This year we are going all in on getting the students to get the fuck off those damn things. Every classroom has a pouch hung over a door in the room with numbered pockets. Every student is required to place their phone in the pocket that corresponds to their desk number. Unsurprisingly, several students in each class are claiming not to have a phone at all. I have kicked at least a dozen the hell out already, with much drill sergeant barking. They will get the idea sooner or later. It's on.

 

[fncceo]

This year we are going all in on getting the students to get the fuck off those damn things.

Why?

It’s a technology that isnt intrinsically good or evil.

But, it IS convenient and it ISN’T going away.

Embrace it.

 

[Auld Phart]

mainline?

I won't even own one.

 

[Unkotare]

Why?
...

Because there is a mountain of evidence that they destroy concentration and academic achievement.

 

[Rambunctious]

Some students are truly and fully addicted to their fucking cellphones. This year we are going all in on getting the students to get the fuck off those damn things. Every classroom has a pouch hung over a door in the room with numbered pockets. Every student is required to place their phone in the pocket that corresponds to their desk number. Unsurprisingly, several students in each class are claiming not to have a phone at all. I have kicked at least a dozen the hell out already, with much drill sergeant barking. They will get the idea sooner or later. It's on.

My golfers know to not bring their phones out of the locker room... ever... and now I'm also an assistant coach for the Varsity Basketball team and I brought that rule with me... it caused some backlash but only for a while...

 

[Unkotare]

Now some students have taken to bringing TWO cell phones to school. They make a show of putting their phones in the pouch but using the other phone when they can. Not gonna work.

 

[fncceo]

Because there is a mountain of evidence that they destroy concentration and academic achievement.

Unlike iPod, tamagotchi, comic books, transistor radios, and every other technology adopted by kids in the last 100 years.



https://youtu.be/IXOsCi_F7w8?si=_sSg5lnDz5eFBOag

 

[Unkotare]

Unlike iPod, tamagotchi, comic books, transistor radios, and every other technology adopted by kids in the las 100 years.

Where do you teach?

 

[fncceo]

Where do you teach?

Everyone around me benefits from my accrued wisdom.

I teach via osmosis.

 

[Unkotare]

Everyone around me benefits from my accrued wisdom.

I teach via osmosis.

So, full of shit.

 

[fncceo]

So, full of shit.

Like every carbon-based entity in The Universe.

The difference being, I don’t go around trying to ban technology from others, Herr Luddite.

 

[fncceo]

destroy concentration and academic achievement

Unlike raising those children on a steady diet of amphetamines and gender confusion.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Why?

It’s a technology that isnt intrinsically good or evil.

But, it IS convenient and it ISN’T going away.

Embrace it.

Obviously, you have no clue as to what he is talking about.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Unlike iPod, tamagotchi, comic books, transistor radios, and every other technology adopted by kids in the last 100 years.

Those are all banned also.

 

[Unkotare]

Still a few kids in each class trying to get one over, but most are starting to get the idea. A half dozen or so detentions send a message.

 

[ozro]

I just wonder....if one could train a chimpanzee to use a cell phone. If so, would the chimpanzee become addicted to using it?

 

[Unkotare]

I just wonder....if one could train a chimpanzee to use a cell phone. If so, would the chimpanzee become addicted to using it?

Teenagers sure as hell can.

 

[ozro]

Teenagers sure as hell can.

I am not a teacher, and not around many teenagers. However, I have noticed that. I certainly wish you well in your endeavors.

 

[fncceo]

I just wonder....if one could train a chimpanzee to use a cell phone. If so, would the chimpanzee become addicted to using it?

If teenager can use one … a chimp should have no problem.

 

[The Duke]

Why?

It’s a technology that isnt intrinsically good or evil.

But, it IS convenient and it ISN’T going away.

Embrace it.

No man. They're interacting with the world through a pre-programmed, very limited device.
That's unacceptable for any real society to function.
If it's allowed, the makers of those devices will own everyone.