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 Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:31 pm
>_< No one in my school ever really lost their phones either...
And even if they did, it was always returned at the end of the day.
Maybe american schools are just... more lenient? D: Gawd, it would be why americans are like... the stupidest of the current generation. XD;
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:10 pm
well lots of kids lost their phones in the regular high school. the teachers there were mostly pricks. Vocational school was more lenient. Especially for me who had to be compared to his brother all the time -_- In the high school they tried to take anything they could away, especially from us "darker" kids. They took a necklace of mine for a week, and tried to take my friends too at one point. Not to mention all the strife they gave us about our chains. Schools suck period when it comes to crappy teachers.
XDD I loved the "i'm not going to make you take anything off or tie your hair back...but if you don't you WILL lose a body part" attitude my vocational teacher had. >.> it only really hits you when you see these guys from my career field actually missing limbs.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:25 pm
Ah the days when cellphones could be taken up. Never had my taken personally because I never had it on my person during school. Left it in the truck/jeep.
Now that I'm at college I just usually leave it on vibrate or silent unless the professor says we have to put it away during a test ,Damn it, to prevent cheating and thus forcing everybody to give up their test and have to take a different one the next time we meet.
And so I made sure it was on silent and put it in my bookbag. What it seems like the regular school teachers lack to understand is that we do in fact need our cell phones in this day and age. Gone are the days of calling the school and getting somebody to tell the kids something important, the parent's just call, or better yet text, the kids themselves.
That why I like college. They adknowledge the fact that cellphones and other electronic devises are important in how we opperate. But! Unless we have a job that requires immedante action (cops, firefighters, etc.) or inform them before hand about that you may get an important call about family, we are to turn them either on silent or all the way off or risk losing points off our final grade, Damn it.
("Damn it" provided by paraphrasing my favorite professor who gets it but also need to make his point at well.)
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 5:35 pm
OMG the old cell phone debate...if this thing came up once in my high school, it came up at least a thousand times.
Soooo many people got their phones taken away for senseless and stupid reasons. The faculty at my school were like the frickin' CIA when it came to monitoring cell phone use in school. (I was going to say nazis, which is what people in the school would call them, but I wasn't going to take it that far.)
That's why I always kept my phone off, and even in my locker. It didn't make any noise, nobody contacted me during class, they don't take my phone, I don't get called out and made to feel like a fool, everything's good, problem solved! =D
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:11 pm
Godwin's law! Now that I got that out of the way.
What really made it so bad at my school that a fight that happened at my school down the hall from the main office was reported by a student on a cell phone because the teachers couldn't get the actual school phone to work.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:18 pm
Wait, why bring a phone to school if your not going to have it on you if an emergency arises. I know when my school caught fire there were people calling everyone to alert them to not come (it was early morning) My teacher called me to tell me what happened, so I sat in my schools auditorium for half the day then got bored and went home. XDD wasn't on the high schools roster so they couldn't keep me there.
Then there was the time the power went out in middle school and I called my mom to tell her to stay home for when I got there. Needless to say, I always keep a cell phone on me and unless there was good reason I don't give it to anyone.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:33 pm
My reason is because at the time the ONLY reason I had a cell phone, or the only reason I got a cell phone in the first place, was to always have a way for dad to call me or me to call him. Most of the time if he called me it was to go pick something up after school, and I could easily just call him when I got to the truck/jeep when school was over.
Also, the only reason I would have to call him was either he called me and I was calling him back or because I wasn't at school at all and was informing him where I was at when I went out.
There was a bit of an unspoken rule in my family to NOT let me know about anything bad happening in the family while I was at school. And that worked because the last thing I would want right before a test was to find out somebody got hurt and/or died. Unless they came to pick me up themself I was expected to continue the school day as is.
Doesn't really matter now a days because since I'm not in class all the time and while there are limits to how many days I can miss it's not as important unless it's a test day.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:39 pm
@Panda: I usually kept my cell phone with me but when I didn't somebody always had a cell phone on them. So if an emergency did occur, someone would always have a phone provided the school phones weren't working. Thing is, the only things close to an emergency were the bomb threats and some notes scrawled on the wall about shooting. But of course those never took place. Probably just some idiot who didn't want to take a test.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:08 pm
I'm just sayin, an emergency is as an emergency does. I have to keep my cellphone on me now a days due to my car starting to feel the effects of aging and breaking down, as well as my own health not being as great as it once was. If my bosses tried to touch my phone they'd get a good slap in the head.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:11 pm
Haha, I can just see that.
"GIVE ME THAT PHONE!"
*reaches*
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:15 pm
@Panda: No, no, I agree with you, I'm just saying those were my circumstances is all.
@Dart: Haha!! XD
And if anyone tried to touch either my laptop, cell phone, mp3 player, Nintendo DS or anything of the like, I think I could probably have them in a headlock in about 2 seconds. And I don't even know any martial arts. XD
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:22 pm
Red? But I'm Dart. Unless he made a post I can't see.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:30 pm
It'd be awkward because my supervisor is a cripple, but he harasses me so i'd still do it. Although he's getting to the point where he can sense i'm in a bad mood and he'll just shuffle by without looking at me.
@TRG: I really don't see how a headlock from a girl could be punishment ^.~
@Dart/red: we all know that you two are Siamese twins sitting next to each other.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:36 pm
@Dart: Whoops! I'm sorry; I was on the phone with my Dad who's on a business trip and trying to type at the same time. Multitasking on a computer doesn't always work XD
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Lemme just fix that...
@Panda: XD
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:39 pm
Actually it was proved that he just showed up when I disapeared for the summer, I didn't even know him till I got back and he only knew me because he actually sat down and read all of this thread.
It's still rather impressive he did that haha.
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