Aug 31, 2012
Teachers destroying students’ phones for using them in class [6 short videos]
Sometimes teachers just get fed up and must go to extreme lengths to get their seemingly simple points across. In this case, the point is Don’t use your phone in class. Simple enough, right?
Apparently not.
Here’s a collection of videos showing kids who just won’t comply with that straightforward instruction and who have to be reminded the hard way. (The clips are ordered by awesomeness with the last being most epic. And they’ve been set to only play the relevant moments, so that they’re all less than 25 seconds long.)…
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So… were all these incidents recorded with camcorders?
most of these seem faked. why would a student right behind the other student go to the difficult effort of setting up and filming secretly if he or she didn’t know what was about to happen? do they do that all the time?
These are students. They record their college classes so that they can go back over the footage when they are studying.
All I’m saying is if a teacher destroyed my phone, they better have the $600 to replace it.
If you have no sense, then it should be your lesson to get a JOB to pay for a new one and to be aware of the consequences.
@Lauren, one should have the respect to turn ones f*%king phone off during class like I have to turn mine off when I’m teaching.
like.
I second that like and I am high school student.
Still doesn’t give a teacher the right to destroy someone’s personal property.
Phones do get SUPER annoying. If the teacher says NO PHONES, then that means NO PHONES. It’s the students own fault for not listening and respecting the teacher. One of my college professors told us if he caught anyone texting, he’d give them a warning. If he catches them again, he’s going to kick them out of the classroom. It isn’t hard turning off the phone.
Kicking them out of class is fine with me. Taking them from them and turning them into the office is also fine. I know phones are annoying but that STILL doesn’t give them the right to break the phone. Unless they want to pay to replace it, in that case… smash away.
So are babies but you don’t see me punching those little s*%ts when they start crying next to me on the buss that says NO BABIES.
Internet win. Also, I hate babies more than phones. NO BABIES!
There are busses that say “No babies?”
One should but if not you are saying that you have the right to break their/their parents property? That is very illogical.
I agree with the teachers on this. Those phones not only ring but in most cases, the students answer and start talking on them! That is HUGELY disrespectful to the teacher. I’m all for them breaking their phones. If the student doesnt have respect for the teacher, why should the teacher have to respect the student? I just love how they do it and then continue talking like nothing happened. :D love it
Take the phone away, send them to the office if they’re in middle or high school or kick them out of class if you’re in college. Breaking someones personal property isn’t going to earn respect from ANYONE.
Anyone getting butthurt at the phones being destroyed: Boohoo! It’s called consequences, and if that was your kid, it is your DAMN job as parent to discipline them and punish them. PLUS making them work to replace it, and be aware of the consequences of disrupting class. There’s clearly something wrong with a society that cradles, nurtures, and coos this type of attitude instead of correcting it.
And, taking the phone away and sending them to the office won’t solve it. You gotta nip it in the bud.
Many of these are college kids– adults, by our society’s definition. You can’t do this to people in a restaurant, no matter how much you may want to. You can’t legally do it in a college classroom either, for better or for worse.
J you are very one-sided. I agree students shouldn’t use their phones in class, however it is not your place to destroy their property or their parents whatever the case may be. It shows a lack of control and self-discipline. If teachers cannot deal with students then get a new f*cking job. It is very childish to destroy anything when you are upset especially when that object is not even yours.
In short don’t be a hot-headed p*ssy because you are a teacher. If you were giving a lecture to the public or someone closer to your own age and size you would never do that. Why? Because you cannot intimidate adults like you do children a.k.a pu*sy.
well put.
Is that, like, a real-life ray gun? That last one doesn’t even look real…
I will tell you this…Im a college grad student and I text in class all the time…I have a real job and a life…The way I see it is im paying good money to get my eduaction and since im paying I have the say. Even when I was younger I wouldn’t hand my cellphone over to a teacher. If they were to break something of mine I wouldn’t mind returning the favor to their cars. Teachers need to grow up, your the adult and when you gotta do something like this you become the bully. I hated teachers when I was younger and that was because they think they are just so superior to the students. Shit way to take the easy way out of college. Moral of the story its illegal to destroy someone elses property no matter where your at. Id sue for the phones and more, teach those teachers some respect. I would hold the school and school district liable as well for hiring individuals that couldn’t control their emotions…..Man could be a good money making adventure for the student and their family with dumb teachers making these kinds of mistakes.
T, maybe you should have paid more attention in class so your grad student self could have learned to use your “you’re”s correctly. You must really enjoy being in school with all those superior and dumb teachers you have to deal with.
@ T: “I’d sue for the phones and more, teach those teachers some respect.”
Whether or not you’re paying for it, it is rude to use your phone in class. Just turn it off. It’s not only a distraction to you and the professor, but also to the students around you. You are not the only one in the classroom so just turn it off.
Now, if you are expecting an important call for maybe a family emergency or something life changing then let the professor know you will have your phone on VIBRATE and may need to step out of the room.
You need to show respect to earn it.
Also, I do not think the professors should break the phones, but how else should they punish them for not paying attention? Kick them out of class? Most of the kids that are using their phones in class don’t want to be there anyway.
I’d like to see them try that with my phone: http://wreg.com/2012/07/18/does-it-work-5/
If it was my kid, I would ground them for having the phone out in class, but you’d bet your ass the teacher or the school would be paying for the phone, because technically, it belongs to me, the parent. Destruction of property is not the best example to teach in the classroom. Taking it away and putting in a drawer until the end of the period would have been sufficient.