My mom wouldn't let me take a phone for nothin! I had one at age 12 and she let her boyfriend steal it that same year because I never used it for anything other than Tetris. He denied that he had my phone but dude it had the same chip on the corner from when i dropped it. Anyways, all through HS, I was only allowed to take my NEW phone to school once a year when going on a class field trip. - One day this girls phone went off in class while in her backpack. The teacher was kind and politely and calmly said “Please turn it off.” So she did and stuck it back in her bag. The teacher goes, “Oh no. I didn't say you could keep it. Its mine now and yes im turning it into the principals office.” (Our school had a dumbass policy that they could keep your phone for a month if caught with it.) She goes “But i wasn't even on it, i just forgot to silence it.” He goes “Give it to me.” She says “Fuck!”. Then he goes, “And now you can go where your phone is going because I’m turning you both into the principals office.” (Yep, she got written up for cursing.) - The phone of this other girl (who punched Raja in the back of the head) also went off in class one day. She legit told the teacher “I said you ain't taken my shit.” Man she was bold af. That teacher was mad scared lmao. And that girl kept her phone. She wouldn't give it up nor leave the room. The school sheriff had to come pick up her desk (while she was in it) and carry her to the school office 🤣#FeelFreeToList#NoPhonesAllowed
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And dont even get me started on church. Hardly any one likes my preacher so if they’re not attending “just because” and reading the bible as a way to hear the word, theyre usually on their phones. My preacher used to call me out and go GIRL GET OFF YOUR DAMN PHONE! But yet i wasn't even on it. I can't stand that gold diggin mf.
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I suck at being sneaky with a phone. Work is the only place i really tried that and i got caught 😂 We get written up at work if we have a phone. I had to lie and say it was a family emergency just to get out of it
Did the teacher ever take away your phone while at school?
Yes, in the 8th grade, even though phones were allowed at my school. She took it away outside of her class (we weren't in her room, at the time), because she thought "young people use their phone too much nowadays." In retaliation, I stole her birth control pills and flushed them down the toilet while getting my phone back after breaking into her desk drawer's lock. She was a total bitch though, so I didn't feel sorry for doing it later on.
I also could've intentionally broke the phone after getting it back and blamed it on her, forcing her or the school to have to buy me a new phone, but that would've taken too long and I wasn't scheming a revenge plan that far ahead. Totally would've worked though, cause as I said, schools didn't have official policies on this back in 1999/2000 and we weren't even in her class anyway. Even nowadays though, that's 100% not allowed; you can't just take someone's phone away from them outside class. At most, they can put them in a "phone box" to make sure they aren't using them in the classroom. That's what the academy I teach at, does.
"(Our school had a dumbass policy that they could keep your phone for a month if caught with it.)"
BS! I would've threated them with a lawsuit so f*cking fast! And yes, I'm saying 13 year old me would've threatened to sue them. I would've been like that second girl ("who punched Raja in the back of the head") because I had a pretty abusive mom and I basically had to trick my grandma into even getting me a cell phone in the early 2000s.
I wasn't a bad kid at all, but I did come from a broken household and didn't have time for anyone's sh*t, not even at that age. I was smart enough to know I could physically fight an adult and not do prison time for it (not that I'd ever take things that far; I just wasn't afraid of any authority figures that weren't police).
One time, I had another teacher try to take my phone just for it being visible in class; not even on or unflipped; just visible next to my bag on the desk. I almost reduced that teacher to tears (late 20s black woman who clearly hated her job and life) by verbally berating her and by pointing out her failures in life and how being an underpaid public middle school teacher who no one appreciates that more than likely owns at least five cats and hasn't seen a naked male since her slutty college years is going to end up be the highlight of her life before she ends up overdosing at 40, and that she shouldn't be wasting her time trying to verbally "one-up" a 13 year old as a pathetic attempt to feel some sense of "power and control" in her hopelessly miserable and pathetic life, knowing full well I was far from one of the *actual* "bad kids" in school.
And yes, I said all of that in the 8th grade to a 29-32-ish year old adult. This is super-ironic considering I'm a teacher nowadays. But hey, I'm not an asshole teacher, like so many teachers are. (None in my academy though, cause it's in Korea AND it's not a public school.)
But yeah, I would've been just like that second girl. No one would be getting my phone ever again after the first. Our middle school didn't have police, but our high school did.
In my 2nd high school year (I don't know what it's called in the usa) - our school had the same 1 month policy as yours - My English teacher was particularly frustrated with me over the fact that I arrived 20 mins late to class without a backpack (The backpack part always happened I never got a backpack that year) for the 100th time now and she was ranting about how I think I can do whatever I want and that I should go to the principle's office - I was smirking then I told her "I love it when you're mad at me" - So the entire class started rooting for me then I told her I mean you're right to be mad at me - So she tried to hold her laughter then started ranting about how she just wants the best for all of us and that even though I got good grades if I actually cared I'd get better grades, she even called me adorable.
and here's where I should have shut my mouth - Even though I had our English book - I decided to mess around just for the sake of it - "Daniella, can you sit next to me since that I don't even have my English book?" - The entire class bursts out laughing so the teacher starts asking if I even have any book in my desk - I had all my books and only 1 notebook and some empty peanut bags and my desk was a mess - So she decides to fix it right then and there - I tried to play it cool"No no I'll fix it later at the break" - But then she removes my notebook and under it was my phone - Another round of laughter while I got all red - I even managed to make a "that's a gift for daniella" joke - after another rant about how I should put my phone in the phone box - I was sent home - Good times, university was nothing like that which I kinda hated no one really cares
one thing I'm not good at is responding to compliments - i hate saying thanks it's just too predictable - is me secretly loving the fact that you love my sense of humor good enough?
I feel like when I was in school we were still tapping messages into stones. We had a drive-by one day, the bullet went into the window frame of my classroom and nobody even called it in, as the vehicle was only heard not seen. Felt such a disconnect to how things go down these days.
Yes, I did have a bad day were I just dug my heals in and wouldn't participate. Not sure what came over me. Nothing taken. I was told to sit outside. Sounds so boring compared to your stories.
I'm lucky this didn't happen to me. Even if my phone did go off in class the prof probably wouldn't do anything about it but either may or may not say something. In college it's not like the professor would take your phone away, right? The professor can't send you to the principal's office or give you detention because that doesn't exist
Phones were not allowed in our school and are not allowed in hand in our college. But everyone except teachers and school staff knew that I was bringing my smartphone nearly everyday, in school. My first phone was a Samsung touchscreen, but not an android. It was a gift to me by my father when I was in 6th standard. And the current one I am using is also a Samsung but it is my 7th phone, A50s 6gb variant. I also have an 8th phone which is my backup. It is cheap one.
Okay so this is when I was with my 3rd phone, Karbonn, I was in 9th/10th. Everyone knew I brought my smartphone nearly everyday to listen to songs in bus. One day, our principal carried out a surprise check, both bag and body check. I found that there were over two boxes of makeup by girls confiscated! And a large plastic bag filled with latest smartphones in it!
I really thought, I was one of the few ones to bring phones in school! But no, there were many... I was really frightened at that moment. But I calmed myself up and thought of places to hide my smartphone.
Then I got it, there was only one person in the classroom whose body and cupboards would not be checked, our teachers and their cupboards, so I just took my smartphone, while bending over, in the guise of tying my shoe lessees, put it in the near noise free plastic bag and swiftly slid my smartphone under the cupboards. Not in the cupboards. It was real dark under the cupboards, and only I knew my smartphone was there.
Got checked and nothing came. When the bus was leaving from my school to home, I stopped and went and collected the phone.
My friends went crazy with this story. But its true. Simple quick thinking came handy😂🤣
The trick is to always have some unexpected things with you. If not for the near noiseless plastic, my phone's camera could have gotten damaged. The design was carbon copy of iPhone dude. I never get as to why copy designs!
that's a good teacher... laid out a boundary, stuck to it. those headstrong brats who didn't get enough parenting at home, hope they learned a lesson... but by that age, it's often too late. Teacher could have shown 1 offense forgiveness, especially for good behavior, but that creates risk of potential bias... any sense of bias, and people take offense..."you did that cause i'm female, or black, or Asian". blah blah. thus hard rules. You are demonstrating what went wrong with this country... responsibility, respect, discipline. It was removed before you existed and you think it's normal. Gotta train and guide children, else they go their own way... and it's a disaster.
no... phones didn't exist... had to use the rotary to dial anyone.
My phone was taken from me a good amount of times throughout middle school. Teachers be saying how long it’ll be to us students get it back so after class I would wait till I know that the teacher is gone and everyone else left so I could get my phone back. Your stories makes my day, good way to start my morning 😊
I oddly only had an iPad 2 with me for most of highschool. No phone. Why? I guess because money at the time. So big display right. Real hard to do anything descretely. Anyway opened my browser to use for Spanish class just as my partner asked the teacher to come over. Porn hub came on. iPad's a bit sluggish so it stayed on way too long. Luckily I got the sound off. Think it was either a casting call or a lesbian one. They were speaking Spanish though between their squishy panting so guess that's better. Blends right in. Teacher's face was perfect. Noticed the quiet girl behind me saw everything so it all worked out. Nothin taken away though. I think a sub did take it away once. Old hag though
It was a huge learning curve for me but I was fascinated with it. Been an Android and still am an Android/Samsung guy. But Apple's got more powerful stuff, great for what I do
When I was in school the cost of a cellphone was $7k to $10k in modern dollars. You were lucky if you even saw one on tv. But just 4-5 years later they were pretty common. And no, I don't remember getting anything confiscated but one time a dumb classmate borrowed something from me and got it snatched by a teacher.
If the girl in your story tried that where I went to school, the teacher would have sent her to the hospital - and no I'm not joking at all.
Yeah. Kids didn't have the option of cursing adults out where I went to school & all of the parents were onboard with that too. In fact, if you curse your own parents out in my generation you'd probably go to the morgue or hospital. Either way you wouldn't do it twice.
They werent supposed to do it during my time either. Im a 90s baby and im still not allowed to curse. My mom just allowed me to say piss and crap when i hit 21 🤣
A lot of us didn't have cell phones like that back then. The ones we had pretty much suck too. You either had a phone that looked like a bar of soap with buttons or a flip phone with a calculator screen. Slight hyperbole but phones weren't really attractive to me back then. One something easier to type on came out like slide phones and blackberries them I was interested
My second phone was a slide and i never used the slide keyboard. Lmao i hated it. I didn't really start using a phone til i got my first boyfriend at 15
I wasn't big on names back then. My first phone was a tracfone. The second was a slide as was the third. But they were both androids. My fourth was a blackberry pearl til i broke the little ball on it. After that, i had another android slide. Then after that, i skipped to an iphone 5C and started moving up on iphones from there
RE:Update: I do not allow my students to screw around with their phones during class. It just pisses me off. They are mostly cool with it. Once I saw a student sitting in the back row with a hoodie on with the hood pulled up over his head. I could see he was wearing ear buds so I walked over to him and took the earbud cord and pulled them out of his ears and told him to put it away.
Yes, some schools got crazy policies, I was bullied and ridiculed by Teachers and Students cause I was overweight, I lose all kinds of weight, and this one Gym Teacher who was playing house with one of his pretty students came up to me one day and said I looked like I gained weight well I did gain 18 lbs but I did my damnest to lose weight now this is why to this day I have mixed feelings dealing with male friends I rather have female friends.
No but i remember this one student would use their phone during lockdowns and be all loud and obnoxious, and the teacher would be freaking out and yelling but whisper yelling at the student to give them there phone, and the student wouldn't but that student would always somehow get away with it... and not get into trouble, then i found out years later it was the superintendents kid.
I got my first phone in grade 12. A Motorola Razor. I didn’t get it taken away. We were not allow to have phone at all. I mean this was 2008 when phones were just saturating the market.
My high school experience was lightyears different than even those 5 years younger. In 7th grade “cellular phones” we just becoming a thing. I thought “cell phone” sounded stupid. 🤣 Andddd I am officially old lol
They always ask for a phone in a leaning disabilities special school. If you don't give , they take it anyway. They banned dating and relationships for students with learning disabilities and students did break the rules.
Well let me say that in regards to your preacher. Stealing in the name of the Lord is a special sin far as I'm concerned. As far as the teacher taking my phone she never came to my house, I had enough of them at school
he's not stealing but he passes the plate around 3 times in one session. Its just weird. And he tries to guilt trip you into paying more even if youve done your 10%
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