It’s an exceptionally odd time to be an educator.
On one hand, we’re trusted with enormous responsibility. We have to provide individualized instruction for a room of up to 35 students, regardless of whether they want to do the work or not. We’re expected to be human shields for our students and practice saint-like patience at all times. And we’re asked to provide services—from counseling to specialized coaching—that often go way beyond our job description.
But for people who are given such weighty tasks, we’re treated as remarkably untrustworthy. We can’t possibly select our own books for the classroom or our curriculum. We’re asked to ignore our professional experience and cater to the whims of people who’ve never taught.
And in many schools, teachers are told to turn in their phones to administration during standardized testing.
Recently, a teacher on Reddit posed this question:
Phones state testing
by u/ObjectiveSlow4628 in Teachers
The most common response?
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by u/plantsandnature from discussion Phones state testing
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Many teachers provided alternate options for phone storage during testing:
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by u/McFlygon from discussion Phones state testing
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While others brought up very valid reasons why, as adults, we should be able to have our phones on us.
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by u/berrikerri from discussion Phones state testing
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by u/Consistent_Wish_242 from discussion Phones state testing
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by u/sofa_king_nice from discussion Phones state testing
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One teacher found a clever way to buck the system.
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by u/dolfan4life2 from discussion Phones state testing
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Other teachers shared stories of testing security going too far:
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by u/umuziki from discussion Phones state testing
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by u/GalwayGirl606 from discussion Phones state testing
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Overall, the consensus was this: Don’t turn in your phone and give any validity to this “Big Brother” policy.
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