School Phone Collection Punishment Heightened
As of April 1st, 2018, the fee for having your phone being taken up to the office by a teacher or other school employee has now been raised to $100. After conversations with the superintendent and other teachers, Mrs. Hagerty has decided to make it more expensive if you get caught with your phone in class.
“Whenever I walk in to observe a class, there are always kids staring down at their phones. Instead of paying attention to the lesson, they’re playing games and texting their friends. There needs to be a better system for punishing these kids that are ruining their time in school by playing instead of learning. It’s a huge problem in our school and it needs to end,” Principal Nicole Hagerty said.
The choice to raise the fee to $100 is not the only thing that will be added to the punishment for phone use in school. There will also be a non-violent referral and a one-day lunch detention in the office during your lunch period. The idea to have additional punishment was suggested by Mrs. Gill.
“Every day, I see my students messing around on their phones. They’re not paying attention to me. They’re ignoring their teacher and doing whatever they want instead. It’s a disgrace to our school. I’m so tired of my students messing around in my class. And then, when they fail a test or a quiz, they get mad and say that ‘We didn’t learn that yet.’ I hope that this fixes the disease that is phones in class,” US History teacher Melissa Gill said.
Scroll down to see the official document, issued by Mrs. Hagerty and Mrs. Gutierrez, that made this change permanent for the rest of this school year, and potentially for the next years to come.
