NEW INFO on South Carolina beatdown!

[passiveporcupine]

15. I can understand a classroom policy of no phones

But...seriously, what if a student is waiting for a serious message from say family dealing with a dying parent or something. What if they do glance quickly at a text message and then put it away because it's not "important" enough to break the class rule over?

Why would a teacher react to that in such a harsh way as to kick a new student out of class? Why not just reiterate the rule and say "no looking at your phone"...period.

How many other students in that classroom look at their text messages, and get away with it because they are in the back of the classroom?

Why this crack down on kids with such severity? And to let it escalate to bringing in a resource officer to handle it when a student has a known mental health issue? Maybe this particular teacher had not been informed, but I wouldn't crack down so hard on such a minor slight...I'd call the student on it and reiterate the rule and then get back to the damned lesson.

I just don't understand why anyone needs to be so hardassed. The girl was NOT disrupting the class. She did break a rule by reading a text message (or at least looking to see who it was from)...but it was her first incident in that class room, right?

I think some teachers are just too in love with authority...or maybe this was a school that had a lot of discipline problems with students acting up? I don't know...maybe we don't know enough about what triggered this teacher to respond this way, but I think it was handled wrong from the very beginning.