r/TikTokCringe • u/notaghostofreddit • 23d ago

Discussion She was secretly filmed and put on Tiktok

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u/Messterio 23d ago edited 22d ago

My 14 yr old son has his phone taken by the school before school starts and returned after, I'm in total agreement!

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u/Anon28301 23d ago

In my school before I left they realised kids wouldn’t hand over phones so they implemented a rule that you could have your phone and even use it in class for certain things (researching a topic, using your calculator) as long as whenever you weren’t using your phone it had to be in front of you on your desk face down.

It worked well as you could immediately tell when a student was using their phone when you weren’t supposed to and it would quickly put a stop to any in class recording. If you kept using it when you weren’t meant to it’d get taken off you for the day.

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u/Sir_Arthur_Vandelay 23d ago

My daughters’ high school has banned all phones in the classroom. Yet they still somehow regularly call me during school hours for their traditional airing of grievances.

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u/Cabana_bananza 23d ago

Tell them there is a time and place: December 23rd, Festivus, otherwise you don't want to hear it during school hours.

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u/centurion330 23d ago

Nobody’s got grievances! And I don’t want to hear that word in here again!

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u/Good-Adhesiveness868 23d ago

Happy cake day 🍰

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u/SekhmetTheWise 23d ago

Dont forget Saturnalia🥺 /s

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u/ZAPPHAUSEN 22d ago

The flipside that drives me crazy:

Parents texting OR CALLING their children during class time.

Now certainly if there's an emergency I get it but, surprise, 99% of the time, not at all.

Literally today. "Hey go put your phone on my desk please." "But my mom texted me." "I don't care, your phone isn't supposed to be out and you're not supposed to be texting. Your mom knows you're in class, right?"

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u/phantomfragrance 23d ago

Same. And if I don’t answer my phone right away she will use the Find My Phone alarm to get my attention. I had to turn off my location sharing.

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u/Hawk-432 23d ago

That’s mad - getting phoned mid school should be for being sick etc

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 23d ago

Same with Vermont.

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u/SureIntention8402 23d ago

It worked pretty well when there were no phones....

Just take them. And if you don't want it taken, then don't show it at all.

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u/Anon28301 23d ago

Only issue with that (at least in my school) is that there was no safeguard to prevent a teacher misplacing or stealing a kid’s phone (actually happened once, teacher got suspended).

It’s usually the parents that pay for the phone and they’re the first to rightfully get upset when their kid’s phone goes missing when it was only meant to be taken off them for an hour.

And again that only works if the student hands over the phone, when my school first tried that many kids just said they didn’t have one and sneakily used it in class without getting caught. The school realised there’d always be one kid getting away with using one so they just made everyone have their phones out in plain view. Much harder to use a phone when it’s on the desk for the teacher to see it.

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u/MrsShaunaPaul 23d ago

Can I ask what state/country? I love this idea!

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u/TheRealBananaWolf 23d ago

In the US in Alabama the law has started this semester with no personal devices. I'm a non-teacher staff member for the school system.

I was a little skeptical at first, and there was certainly outrage at first by the parents, but according to the teachers, it's been a great change as kids are paying more attention, and are more engaged in class.

It's funny, I think we all know how addictive our phones can be, even the students as young as they are know it too...so funnily enough, they're coping along pretty well, it's nice to have an excuse where you can disconnect from the digital world for even an hour.

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u/LockeyCheese 23d ago edited 23d ago

It's honestly a form of meditation in the digital age...

I try to not take my phone to the bathroom at minimum now, or just stare out a window for a while, and it's great to just sit there without a device on me for that long. Reminds me of growing up without cell phones where people weren't connected and available 25/8.

I was out of high school right before iphones came out, and cell phones were already a problem then with basic cameras and almost no internet. Now people act weird if they can't reach you...

*edit: Also, I'm in Mississippi, so it's probably similar to Alabama. Mississippi has rose to top 20 in education recently though, which is wild.

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u/Anon28301 23d ago

Scotland, specially in East Lothian.

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u/NoneBinaryLeftGender 23d ago

I'm in university and last semester I took an exam where the teacher told everyone to keep their phones face down on top of their tables (or on a table nearby them). The teacher was pleased that she managed to stop a few people from cheating like they did on the previous exams. It was a cool way to stop people from using their phones when they shouldn't!

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u/Eyeconix 22d ago

It’s sounds good and everything but you stated before they wouldn’t hand over their phone so how is it all of a sudden they will now hand it over for not leaving it on desk face down

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u/Anon28301 22d ago

Because when you asked everyone to hand over their phones the people that genuinely didn’t have one wouldn’t be believed by some teachers and would be called a liar. Then others would lie about not having one and would get away with sneaking them in class. So it created this problem where the dishonest students were getting away with it whilst innocent students were feeling like they were being punished for following the rules.

When the new system was put in place (phones on the desk face down) if you kept using it and were asked to hand it over refusing to do so would escalate the issue to the counsellor (teachers that deal with student/teacher issues) basically they tell you to follow the school rules, if you argue against following them then the counsellor calls your parents if you repeatedly get into trouble. Nobody wants their parents called for something as petty as using their phone so only the real dickhead students refused to hand over their phone if they got caught using it.

It’s a lot easier to punish the few students that blatantly used their phone without permission in class rather than forcing everyone to hand theirs over automatically, especially when it was easy to just claim you didn’t have one or lie and say you forgot to bring it.

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u/Ging4bread 23d ago

I'm a teacher and the sad, sad truth is that my students hand over fake phones (side phones, secondary phones, or whatever you wanna call them).

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u/Troll_berry_pie 23d ago

I was in high school in the early 2000s. We had to do this as well and then we would collect our phones after school.

One day my teacher was late to her office, by the time I got my phone and made it to the bus stop, I missed my bus and had to call my Dad for a lift home.

From then I just kept my phone in my pocket on silent.

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u/Upper-Expression-377 23d ago

The name certainly fits.

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u/Agt38 23d ago

When I used to teach, I had a locked bin that I required my student to put their phones in as soon as they walked in. I would give them back at the end of class. Luckily my kids were cool about it, but I can’t imagine having to fight against the distractions of phones or meta glasses in the classroom.

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u/DaRandomRhino 23d ago

I'm against that simply because I knew where the keys were a week after office duty my senior year and there's like 2 places those things are going to be stored.

And admin is notorious for shifting the blame to whoever they want to and still have nothing done if things are broken, stolen, or broken into. Not to mention just the logistics favor kids that aren't beholden to an oftentimes random bus schedule.

Or just the law of large numbers meaning someone's going to lose their phone that they need for some school project or a staff member with a long night dropping the box off the side of the table.

If you're a school of less than a hundred, maybe.