[flycaliguy]

Just to add another anecdote. My partner has taught all over our Canadian school board, k-12 and cellphones are not really the disaster that I often read about. They put them away and tend to keep them away in class. She’s fairly flexible about requests to use them from students and just starts laying down a harder stance with individuals who seem to be abusing her generosity.

Just our experience. She caters her French class to their interests. Makes paper handout exercises involving “tagging” vocabulary in photos and stuff like that. I think young people are just really into their phones and teachers need to relate instead of treating it like the enemy. She goes on her phone after the bell as well...

Maybe her job is better than those of American public school teachers as far as pay, class size and so on. Maybe cellphones are breaking the camels back down south in a way they don’t here? I could see that being the case and speaks to bigger problems