After reading Liz Shulman’s Aug. 23 Chicago Tribune commentary about student phone dependency (“My students’ relationship with their phones makes me worry about their future”), I am in utter contempt of our supposed education system. This is not teaching, it is warehousing.
Impossible to enforce “no phones” in the classroom? Wrong! The only thing entering a classroom should be the students and the clothing on their backs.
If a student is caught using a phone in the classroom, it should be a one-day suspension. If there is a second offense, the student should be suspended for one week. Any third offense should be met with permanent suspension from school – with no appeal. The law is clear.
When I was starting my career, I was told, “You either have a ‘program’ or you have nothing.” There should be no exceptions – otherwise, everything is an exception.
Robert Billings Kemper
Bremen
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