Cell phones use by teachers

You know who go to doctors' offices? Sick people.

I'd just as soon not have a small pox-infected blanket....

Not to mention lice and bedbugs.

Exactly what I was going to say....

Actually I am not bashing them at all - if you see and read everything I wrote - I said how much I like them. I was more reaching out to see what others have experienced. But even so I don't believe they should be using cell phones during class time.

They are supposed to do - they are supposed to give you a level of modesty (even if it is fake) - not that it matters to them personally - it is called "bedside manner".

My dr. isn't gone long enough to make a quick phone call... I suspect she just waits outside the door. Once I told her she could just turn around but she went out anyway. She was back in the room in a couple of minutes. She's never answered a phone in any room I've been in with her.

I trained for a month on a Birthing Simulator. Musta pumped out hundreds of kids, no biggee.

Not quite the same thing!

No, there is not less being taught, if anything there's even more material being covered and in many places, within less time.
The system always worked fine by me. If there was an emergency, the main office sent a staffer up, usually a teacher on break. At times a student workng a free period in the main office delivered messages. Back when was a student, that same method tended to be employed. Then there was the school which had an intercom, it was archaic even then; but, it did the task.

Cell phone usage by a teacher during class is uncalled for beyond, a text message stating a schoolwide emergency, one in which the P.A. system would risk greater harm (think crazed gunman in the halls). All calls can go through a main office.

It amazes me that people these days can't function without their gadgets, when just 40 years ago we managed quite well. No cells, no DVDs or VCRs, rarely was there an answering machine.

I agree - and I hate to say - this morning on my drive in - hubby called me - I really do not like talking on the phone when I drive, but he loves it. My opinion relay what is necessary and get off when driving (not that I am a blabber on the phone any way) - but he is - I was thinking (or dreaming) I wish we didn't have cell phones while he was chatting away.

You know that a lot of what was taught was crap, Mame, and I'm afraid that that's still the case today.

I would have to agree with that!

If all the fluff that now exists in education, all the erroneous BS was removed, kids could probably leave school at an earlier age, which is problematic in and of itself.

If each subject could be made more real, more meaningful, and I suspect that there are teachers now doing this, school would be a much more beneficial and enjoyable experience.

Max, I am a teacher.

Were you complaining about change back then when all we had were party-line telephone systems and you had to wait for one of the neighbors to stop hogging the phone line so you could make a call, or complaining about change back then because of how long it took an operator to answer the call so she could put you in the waiting line to connect you to a long distance number?

Strange as it may seem we didn't have a partyline, it was our very own black rotary dial at my parents. We had a listed number,it was 1956, (the next year we got a television). Before then we'd get a rare call that came through at the Rabbi and his wife's place beneath us and we made calls at my grandmother's apartment several blocks away or at a pay phone in a nearby store. Around then was when I was first sent to stay w/relatives. An aunt had her own line, the other 2 places I can't recall. We didn't spend much time making calls either. Calls were quick and to the point. Long distance calls were very rare, they were meant for emergencies, back then there was a wonderful thing called letter writing for people that were across the state, country or
ocean. When the emergency call needed an operator we knew there'd be a wait, wasn't a problem.


These days gadgets are used during meetinngs, dates, in theaters (live and film), funerals, bathrooms, while walking down a street, while driving.... real fun happens at busy intersections when pedestrian texts and driver takes/makes a call.

The idea of technological advancements doesn't bother me. The excessive, needless usage bothers me.