My last class; the "CNA" class was very gheto. Daily, someone's cellphone would interupt the class; followed by "I'm Sorry", repeat last step. One girl had the nerve to answer her phone and start a conversation IN CLASS. The vibrate feature isn't too complicated to use. The instructor was too nice.
My brother had a teacher who would deduct 5 points from you if your phone interupted class; and 10 points and excused for the day if you answered it in class.
I read this thread last week and thought to myself how unprofessional is is for a students cell phone to ring during class. I started my second term on Monday, on Tuesday I was in class and the instructor's cell phone went off twice and both times she excused herself and answered her phone, she returned to class both times and preceeded to tell us about the conversation, go figure. Immediately I thought about this thread:uhoh3: . I am now wonderng what she would have done if it was one of the students whose phone went off..........................
What if you have kids though???? You have to be reachable.........??!
Then they can call the school secretary, who will give you a message.
Or the kiddos can call Daddy, who is also a parent, and should see to his responsibilities as a parent.
Or if it is an emergency (and it better darn well be if they are calling), then the police will drop by the classroom to let you know that that you need to go to the hospital.
You can be reached in all the same fashions that you could when there were no cell phones, or for that matter, few private phone lines.
My kids are like most young people and can't seem to live without that phone attached to their ears/lips/hips....my daughter who's a waitress always has it handy....and it drives me bonkers...how would any of these people have survived in the "old days" when this technology wasn't available and we had to do what others in this thread have mentioned? Somehow, we all managed...
I hope our instructors penalize for cell phone use...it drives me absolutely bonkers when they're ringing or buzzing in class....it's discourteous and I hadn't even thought about dealing with these things during clinicals!! I can just imagine someone walking around with one in their pocket and answering it during that time.....Ohmigosh!!!!
Specializes in Endocrine (Diabetes), Pediatric Psych.
I agree w/all of you - REALLY not polite to have it ring, let alone ANSWER in class?!?! The nerve of some people, really...
I need to come up with something since I start school in the fall and will always have the phone on silent - probably something like calling three times in a row or something, but that might not work for me to recognize it if it's not my home or one of the cell phones...
My parents and I used to have pagers back before cell phones, and we used the numerical paging system to our advantage and we had a whole bunch of numerical codes that we invented for them, lol - dialing the callback number plus 911 was obviously, the emergency flag to call back ASAP...
Or if you havea young brother at home and your parents are not home from work and the grandmother cant go out because she has leg problems or you have a loved one in the hosptial. Buit I agree with what all of you are saying i am going to school for my ashoates degree and there are some students that get 3 or 4 phone calss a night and they have these realy loud ringtons on their phones and they slam the door when they leave the class. I think there should be expections to the rules like if a loved on is in the hosptial or if you have problems at home like terying to find some one to watch a brother or sister.
My last class; the "CNA" class was very gheto. Daily, someone's cellphone would interupt the class; followed by "I'm Sorry", repeat last step. One girl had the nerve to answer her phone and start a conversation IN CLASS. The vibrate feature isn't too complicated to use. The instructor was too nice.
My brother had a teacher who would deduct 5 points from you if your phone interupted class; and 10 points and excused for the day if you answered it in class.
What are the disipline procedures for your class?
If a cell phone shall ring in class........you are asked to turn it off (vibrate is distracting too........especially on a desk). Second time, you are politely asked to remove yourself from the classroom. If it rings on an exam........you automatically take a zero.
As drastic as it may sound........I abide by the rules and have no problem doing so.
Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.
I gave up my cell phone and was glad to get rid of the $50/mo bill. But I do miss being in close contact with my family. I can get along without it however and so can my family. There have been a few times when my family couldn't get ahold of me. Oh well. We all dealt with it when I was young. There were no such thing as cell phones then and you just waited until someone got home to tell them whatever. And the phones had party lines so you may not even get thru if you called a person! LOL
I think an agressive stance against cell phones ringing in class is the perfect answer to this annoyance. During my entrance exam to nursing school people were dismissed when their cell phones vibrated in class. Yup, you could hear the vibrate all the way across the classroom. It was very distracting. Phones should be silenced in the classroom and then looked at during the break to see if anyone called.
A fellow classmate of mine came to school with this thing attached to her ear. Guess what? It was for her cell phone. She didn't realize how unapproachable this made her. Why bother to communicate with her if she was listening to someone thru this thing in her ear? It was always attached to her head in class. I thought it was very distracting. Nothing is that important that it can't wait until you get out of class. The teachers gave us breaks every hour and she was always talking on her cell during break.
I was just thinking the same thing. I have 3 kids, 10, 8, and 5. I'm their emergency contact when they head back to school. My college is 40 miles from home and their school. I guess I'll have to keep the phone on vibrate and cross my fingers that the kids only have emergencies when I can answer it!
I have never had a cellphone yet that didnt have a silence option. The window still lights up if a call comes in, but there is absolutely NO sound at all coming from the cellphone. Not even a vibrate. I use that alot even when I am not in class. If I am somewhere I dont think is appropriate to be talking, I will set my phone to silence. It is very easily done. If I am in class, I tell my daughter not to call accept for a REAL emergency. She knows if she did have to call, I would be out the door, but noone else would know.
I don't know how many of you have heard or pay attention to the "Real Men of Genius" ads that Anheiser Busch runs, but they have one that started here recently that's something to the effect of "Mr. Important Cell-Phone-Talker Man" and there's a line that says "a conversation you wouldn't dream of having about your uncle's prostrate surgery at your desk is perfectly acceptable on your cell phone at the restaurant's dinner table"...it also opens with something about "you talk so loudly on the thing, why don't you just consider a tin can and a string"....
Obviously, this is an issue that's so much bigger than the classroom and really points out how rude we have gotten as a society!
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I read this thread last week and thought to myself how unprofessional is is for a students cell phone to ring during class. I started my second term on Monday, on Tuesday I was in class and the instructor's cell phone went off twice and both times she excused herself and answered her phone, she returned to class both times and preceeded to tell us about the conversation, go figure. Immediately I thought about this thread:uhoh3: . I am now wonderng what she would have done if it was one of the students whose phone went off..........................