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[antoniothegreat]

I have a policy at my middle school that kids cannot use cell phones in my class. I made the penalty strict, since last year I felt I had too many kids using them, so the penalty this year is i take the phone for a month.

to avoid any issues of "teacher i wasnt using it." i told them i will take if i SEE it, not if they are using it. i realize some kids have dictionaries, so if they leave the phone on the desk in open view with the dictionary part open, that is okay.

today i see a girl with the phone under the desk, i wait a few seconds to make sure she is typing on it, which she is. i go over to her to get it and she quickly closes and hides it. i take it and she says "english dictionary, english dictionary!" so i ask her what word she was looking up. she thinks for about three seconds, then looks at the board, and says "E, A, T"

Does she really think that I would believe a third grade student in middle school would not know what "eat" means? wow...

anyways, i have her phone for a month.

[ED209]

Don't forget to call all your friends back home and tell them the story

[antoniothegreat]

[YoshaMazov]

That kind of stuff seems to happen to me all the time. I can't tell if the students think I'm a complete dullard, or if they're just plain stupid.

[mrsquirrel]

Yes

[spliff]

Yeah, bro...that's a real knee-slapper.
Yeah, bro...that's a real knee-slapper.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I make them write 30 lines or re-write the text dialogue for a first offence (and keep it for a day). I do many cruel things to students but taking a phone away for a month is too much even for me.

[babtangee]

A month for a first offense? Heavy. Too bad if the thing malfunctions while in your possession. You gonna replace it?

[antoniothegreat]

that's what most of the other teachers at my school do, one month, so i am not being too extreme. but it has worked, as this is only the second phone i have seen all year. last year i would see two phones being used per class.

i think if i was back home i wouldnt do that, take a phone for a month, but we are in korea, so i use their rules. it's not like i am beating them or anything.

[spliff]

[poet13]

I have a new punishment.
Pushups. I hand them out fairly freely. Ist offense in a class = 10. 2nd = 20. 3rd = 30. I had a boy get to 30 yesterday. I have discovered that I have a lot of kids who cannot do even 1 proper pushup. Then again, I had a boy this morning. I told him to give me ten pushups. He didn't hear the ten. So he got down at the back of the classroom and started doing pushups. REAL pushups. I forgot about him. Apparently he got to about 80 before I realized he wasn't in his chair. Good kid though. The others razzed him about not listening when I said ten, and he had a good laugh about it.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[I-am-me]

Yes, pushups is my favorite punishment. I even got the korean teachers away from beating the kids with plastic rods using that method. Another one is having them hold a chair above their heads.

[polonius]

[Yu_Bum_suk]