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15. no, schools need to have rules about bus riding, using headsets and phone texting in class...

AND stick to the rules. If students misbehave like this, they should be suspended from bus service for a reasonable no. of days. Let them take public transportation, or parents can drive them and be inconvenienced.

I teach in urban public high schools (two of them) and work in various classrooms. The most difficult students are the ones hooked on their phones and music, yet there is no hard and fast rule that students are NOT ALLOWED to use headsets and phones in class. Some teachers allow it, no doubt b/c "Jaquan is quiet when he's listening to music" and "Jasmine is no trouble when she's texting" ---but some teachers don't. The "don't allow it" teachers recognize that students will not learn if they're texting and blasting rap in their ears. If the students get the picture on Day One that they're not allowed in class with their devices, they will either join the ranks of the truant or will start learning and working in class. That is their choice, once they're old enough to know they can walk away from school, or not.

From my vantage point of being in various classrooms, the teachers who have rules about devices and enforce the rules have the most respectful classrooms in an environment where students can and do learn.

While some teachers are strict about such rules, I've found that school "leaders" aren't. My schools have no policies on using headsets or phones in class, to the detriment of the schools generally.