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Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>...I had an electronic device taken away by a teacher. I have the "Flashcards" app on my iTouch and was looking at stupid rhetorical terms (stupid asyndeton...I will never use you in my essay ever again as payback) in Calc and I got caught. Sad thing is that my two friends next to me had their iTouch out at the same time too and weren't caught...I mean I wasn't doing anything unproductive and it's better than staring blankly or staring at a topless Putin like my friend was - don't ask why - (considering Calc class isn't doing anything). And it isn't making me fail (considering I'm one of the few As in the class and got a 4 on the mock).</p>

<p>End rant.</p>

<p>Who has been caught using any electronical device (cell phone, iTouch, etc.) and who hasn't?</p>

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<p>I haven’t, although I have used my cell phone a few times in class.</p>

<p>I think that my teacher would have been fine with it though. The class period was almost over and I needed to ensure that I would be picked up at a specific time, seeing as how I was staying for additional assistance both times.</p>

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<p>I don’t typically text or anything during school because I know I’m not sneaky enough to get away with it without getting caught. Haha.</p>

<p>Except for theatre…that class was a joke and the teacher really didn’t care.</p>

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<p>I’ve been caught using my phone in AP Environmental several times this year, and my teacher ALWAYS takes it away.</p>

<p>For each and every other student, she just tells them to “put the phone away” even if it’s the 2nd or 3rd time she’s seen them with a phone.</p>

<p>This is why I hate the biased teachers at my school. I’ve never done anything to this woman, either.</p>

5

<p>Next year, our district has a new policy: we can all use our phones at lunch and in between class. I’m stoked.</p>

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<p>^ The younger grade at our students get their phones confiscated if they use them during lunch&between class and older students don’t.</p>

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<p>I’m still mad…I mean me = productive w/ the iTouch unlike my friend who was looking at that topless Putin picture (of course don’t want his to be taken away but still ugh)</p>

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<p>I’ve gotten my phone taken away. I don’t often text in class unless absolutely necessary. </p>

<p>I got my phone taken away when it fell out of my pocket. It wasn’t even on and the teacher gave it back when he realized it.</p>

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<p>^ Annoying. Do you guys have a policy for when you get your phone returned?
My school does :(</p>

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<p>I don’t bring my phone to school…and when I do, well I don’t use it, so whatever.</p>

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<p>Having your cell phone go off in class is technically grounds for expulsion here.</p>

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<p>That stinks. My school has a policy about cell phones but no one actually follows it. One of my teachers is funny with them when he catches them. He confiscates them and then makes the student play hide and seek for it. He gets so excited. It’s hilarious.</p>

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<p>One’s parents have to come pick it up. You get a referral, and you have to attend school on exam days. Only kids that fail classes, miss 3 days of school, or get a referral come on exam days. </p>

<p>This didn’t happen to me since my teacher just handed it back.</p>

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<p>I use my phone in school sometimes, but never in a real class where we’re doing something. </p>

<p>The ONLY time I ever did that was also the only time I got my phone taken away. We were taking notes in chem and I was dying from some sickness and waiting for my mom to let me know when my doc appointment was. I got a text that I thought was from my mom, and it was a stupid totally random text from a friend. The teacher, who I really like and she really likes me, took the phone and gave it to the asst. principal, who I had to get it from. Understand, people know me. I wouldn’t mind if I was just another kid, but because of who I am, it’s like everyone expects better of me. I was humiliated. And I wasn’t even doing anything wrong. I got over it though.</p>

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<p>My chem teacher plays their ringtones, calls up people on their contact list, and changes the language. He also hides them sometimes as well.</p>

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<p>Except that phones go off occasionally and nobody cares at all.</p>

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<p>…topless putin?</p>

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<p>^ Putin likes to go topless while hunting and fishing…gosh such an ex-KGB…</p>

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<p>I feel like I’d be scarred slightly by that picture.</p>