[casion]

I'm confused as to why kids are allowed to have airpods in their ears in class at all?

It's really not difficult to figure out when a kid is trying to hide it. (source: I'm a teacher of adolescents)

I can only assume that this is either allowed (implicitly or explicitly) or this is in schools where teachers are so overloaded that any sort of message passing would probably go unpunished anyway.

[gowld]

Some people have long hair

[Waterluvian]

Wouldn't matter. Teens are just terrible at hiding anything in class. You can even just tell when their focus is elsewhere.

[Already__Taken]

Many classes aren't lectures, rather you're sat there completing work. On the face of it allowing headphones isn't unreasonable.

[bgrynol]

Thought about this too...the whole headphones in class thing is confusing haha