<p>Hello At my college we are now going to have a fixed seating plan, we have to put our mobile phone in a box at the start of every lesson and our attendance gets sent home every week to our parents !!
what do you guys think is this too much?
should I write a letter to my college?
i think it just like being back at school again !!</p>
<p>Wow. This sounds like they need to have their heads checked. I can see placing your cell phones in a box before a test. But attendance? Updating your parents about your attendance/grades. As a parent, I would tell them to shove it up their…</p>
<p>College is about personal responsibility and growing up. Talk about keeping the babies in their onesies! Sheesh!!</p>
<p>Yeah I know, thinking about writing a letter now !!</p>
<p>That really sounds quite bizarre. There are legalities involved in that too. Without written permission, friends, family, or anyone else does not have the right to see anything relating to your college records. This is strange. </p>
<p>I can understand seating charts and putting your phones in a box before a test. Some professors like to use seating charts because it helps them to remember names. </p>
<p>Geez, what school do you go to?</p>
<p>Its a college in the uk </p>
<p>I’m surprised. Isn’t the UK supposed to be more progressive than we are??</p>
<p>Phones in a box prevents cheating.</p>
<p>Fixed seating plans allows the teacher to know who is there easily and if anyone is missing (empty seat)…It also makes it easier to perhaps match pictures to faces so that the person who is supposed to be taking the test is the one taking it.</p>
<p>Re attendance…I am supposing that there are people who are failing because they are not attending class so they are trying to prevent that. In the USA they would not be able to share that info with parents with out the students’ agreement.</p>
<p>I still think the students are being coddled too much–it’s college. This seems a lot like something an elementary school would do, not higher education. If students don’t know better by now, they probably never will (and keeping an iron grip on them like this certainly isn’t going to help matters). </p>
<p>I just wonder what kind of college it is. The term college is not often used for tertiary (university level) institutions in the UK, although it sometimes is. If this is an FE College it’s closer to an extension of secondary. Does it actually award BA/BSc degrees, OP?</p>
<p>I don’t understand those practices. I’m assuming that the college is looking out for the interest of the students, but sending home attendance and making students put their phones in a box at the start of class is bizarre. That could’ve been the norm in high school, but typically, students are treated like adults in college. If a student wants to cheat on a test with his or her phone, then let him or her cheat. He or she will face the consequences. I don’t understand why this college is coddling so much.</p>