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 🫠

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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.

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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/dms269 Jul 16 '26

Unfortunately, teachers (and some admin) have been completed neutered by their disciplinary problems. Confiscating phones leads to confrontation and upsets the "stakeholders". Suspension hurts the schools discipline numbers which in turn hurt funding. Schools are deathly afraid of hurting their "numbers" so they manipulate them to make them look better while also keeping parents happy (so they don't go running to complain to higher ups or file lawsuits).

Discipline has changed so much in the last 10 years.