r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this đŸ« 

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u/commandant_ Jul 16 '26

yeah, genuinely trying to teach when everyone just is on their phones is
 completely impossible. It’s understandable they’re desperate to fix it, but sucks everything is commercialized now

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u/RedditsFullofShit Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I don’t see the issue? If they take their phone out, confiscate it. Send them to the principal. Make a call to parents etc. get enough repeat violations and get suspended. Get enough past that get expelled.

But why can’t they keep it on them and learn to ya know be responsible and not take it out during class. Not like they are gonna have those same rules in college or work. For example, I’m on phone now and my boss just walked by. He doesn’t give a shit. He knows I’m gonna get my work done despite typing this shit on Reddit right now.

Anyway, I get you don’t want phones to be disruptive but there’s more effective ways to deal with it in my opinion.

Edit to add:
Apparently the admin at every school is incapable of holding students accountable and so the answer is pouches.

So the admin is willing to enforce a pouch policy, but not a no phones in class policy.

Plenty of excuses below about why policing phones doesn’t work, yet here we have these pouches that are supposed to police phones and work. And do tell what will happen when the kid ignores the pouch rule?

Stop making excuses. Administration needs to enforce rules. If you’re gonna have a pouch it’s gotta be enforced. So why can’t they enforce without the pouch?

Stated better, what is the pouch going to change about enforcement of the rules? If you have a no phone policy and kids ignore it, and they aren’t afraid of the discipline, then why will the pouch matter?

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u/ireneabean Jul 16 '26

At least in my experience a lot of my kids these days don't care to be responsible with it. If I had to confiscate phones during class, I'd spend all day playing phone cop instead of teaching and half of the kids will probably argue with me and just be belligerent.

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u/RedditsFullofShit Jul 16 '26

So don’t argue with them? Just send them to the principal. Suspend them. Etc.

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u/ireneabean Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Then I'd be sending half my class to the principal's office which would also get me on the admin's shit list because the principal doesn't really care to deal with these types of things and the kids just end up wandering the halls to waste time. Suspension and expulsion requires a whole admin process here, idk about other schools, and it's often not worth risking my position nor arguing with parents just for a silly phone. Plus I've heard too many kids talk about suspension like it's vacation so I don't even know if it's even a punishment anymore.

Believe me I'd love it if these type of BS equipment isn't necessary or forced in schools.

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u/RedditsFullofShit Jul 16 '26

Stop making excuses.

Send half the fucking class. Have a spine. Hold them accountable. Kick them out.

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u/justguestin Jul 16 '26

Admin (if they show up), coddle the kids and send them straight back. Any referrals you send take weeks to process. The parents that bother to respond to teachers or admin have a strop because you took the kids phone. Teacher gets a bad rep for creating paperwork. They don’t get renewed for the following year and have to find a new job.

And that’s with just the less than half of students that have less than 20-30 absences for the year.

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u/Chief-Drinking-Bear Jul 16 '26

Yeah if every teacher at the school took your advice, maybe the school admin would implement some sort of policy to prevent this! Like Yonder Pouches!

Oh wait, that’s the exact thing the person you’re talking to is advocating for.

Use your brain

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u/Judge_Syd Jul 16 '26

Dude just say you’re not a teacher and don’t understand how running a classroom works lol

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u/RedditsFullofShit Jul 16 '26

Sure thing. Just say you don’t want to have to enforce any real discipline

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u/Judge_Syd Jul 16 '26

I do. It got to the point, district wide, where we enforced them leaving their phone in the office upon arrival.

I really don’t think you understand. Starts with a warning, then a detention + call home, sending them to the office. They just don’t give a shit. Admin send them back, their parents either don’t really care or say “oh we will take care of it” and the cycle continues.

I enforce discipline every day in my classroom. The phones were a totally different beast. And we were NOT allowed to confiscate them per our district policies.

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u/RedditsFullofShit Jul 16 '26

How is the pouch going to change any of this? If they don’t follow the rules and have their phone out and not in the pouch?

How is the pouch going to make adherence the rules or discipline any different?

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u/Judge_Syd Jul 16 '26

The pouch needs a strong magnet to open it. Even if they manage to bring one with them, there are two things that help prevent them using their phone.

  1. It’s an extra step they have to take

  2. It’s incredibly obvious when they are opening it

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u/RedditsFullofShit Jul 16 '26

Does t resolve the issue of how are you going to enforce it when they don’t comply.

Ie if just telling them they can’t have the phones, and they don’t comply, can’t be policed. How will a pouch change the policing?

The only thing that will help the policing is punishment/enforcement.

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u/LotteTakesNoShit Jul 16 '26

That's not how it works. Teachers don't have unlimited authority. Parents have eroded what they can or can not do.

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u/poon-patrol Jul 16 '26

“Stop making excuses. J do something that would more than likely get you fired”

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u/SubSoniq Jul 16 '26

But the kids are the problem. What about shit teachers
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