Confiscated!

[mundets]

Students:
Has your phone ever been confiscated in school for it going off during classtime? And how long was it confiscated for? Any close calls?
I've been lucky, since before each class I always make sure it's on silent!

[cdover]

Mine went off during my Mandarin listening exam :(:(. Was only gone for 3 days. (Well not really 'only').

[mundets]

That's nothing compared to my school. Once, the headmaster confiscated a phone for two months! And if your phone is confiscated, you aren't allowed to take the SIM card out (this would be defeating the purpose of the confiscation).

Once, however, my phone did go off during a history class, but thankfully, with some "negotiations" with the teacher let me off the hook :P

[Valdo]

My phone has never been confiscated! How lucky...:D
But even there was...my dad would claim it back for me!:p

[BylLuvaul]

My teachers dont really care about phones ... like if im in class and we are doing group work or just hanging out i can use my phone with out them caring.

[commedecargons]

The education boards in Asia were actually rather idiotic. phones are a means of communication, they tend to think of the bad side and then proceed to prevent it in the first place. They're all idiots. I always encourage my younger sister to bring her cellphine to school with her in case communication is needed. Those stupid pigs could just put a drawer in front of the class and ask all students to put in their phones there when having classes. They give a stupid explanation of saying students phones might get stolen andmight create possible unneccesary problems! idiots, there are alot of things ready to get stolen in school than phones. They're all idiots; i hope some principal or teachers saw my posts. Idiots ~!

[cdover]

Originally posted by commedecargons
The education boards in Asia were actually rather idiotic. phones are a means of communication, they tend to think of the bad side and then proceed to prevent it in the first place. They're all idiots. I always encourage my younger sister to bring her cellphine to school with her in case communication is needed. Those stupid pigs could just put a drawer in front of the class and ask all students to put in their phones there when having classes. They give a stupid explanation of saying students phones might get stolen andmight create possible unneccesary problems! idiots, there are alot of things ready to get stolen in school than phones. They're all idiots; i hope some principal or teachers saw my posts. Idiots ~!

Whoa you said idiots 5 times...(or so).

[Deadman]

In my school it is allowed to use the phone durng classes as long as you use headset, and if you don't disturb the rest of students. One thing I hate, though, is that you can't use any ear-bugs, SMSing, PDA, or that kinda thing during exams. and while there is no taking away phones from students, some techer's phone was missing. Later they discovered that one of the students stole it. He/She has been kicked out of school.

[Deadman]

Although Serbia and Montenegro is a poor country(Yugoslavia), people are crazy for phones. 7,2 milion people, and 4,1 milion mobile subscribers. Now that is mobile nation, especially if we count that people change their phones often, and that averge earnings are about 200 EURO(but a lot of other things are cheaper, and a lot of people have two jobs), but any way that is realy a lot of people using cellphones.

[omie]

To commedecargons,

I agree with you wholeheartedly.........i really think some of the ADMIN staff in this part of the world need to get a life and look around.........so blinkered, insular and repressive......"this know it all attitude".........

Hope some sense creeps into them in the near future......
the damn cheek to think that they own the airwaves !!!!!!!!!

Sooner they realise that the phones are not luxuries but an essential necessity the better........COMMUNICATION DEVICE..........COMMUNICATION DEVICE...............

Cheers,

:)mie

[shaheen]

u dont want yer phone getting confiscated? dont let it ring!..simple.... i mean isnt that wat the silent profile is for?... i got my t610 confiscated once and ill learn from it till the day i die, teacher didnt wana return it so i got in trouble again on purpose to go to his office, and while he turned around i grabbed it, there was a p900 in there so i was like :O... guess its just not me

[manav]

Originally posted by shaheen
u dont want yer phone getting confiscated? dont let it ring!..simple.... i mean isnt that wat the silent profile is for?... i got my t610 confiscated once and ill learn from it till the day i die, teacher didnt wana return it so i got in trouble again on purpose to go to his office, and while he turned around i grabbed it, there was a p900 in there so i was like :O... guess its just not me

He he, here we used to use the phones, if the teachers see us then we were in for trouble. But we all were a very united class so we warned the teacher. Once our principal took a cell of one of my friends and we all removed air from the tyres of his car! and yeah PRINCIPALS and TEACHERS SUCK! I went for the interview to my *NEW* collage recently they said the phones are not allowed. LARDA**ES!!

[mundets]

Wow, a lot of you guys get off easy with your school's cellphone policy!
At my school they're really strict. Lower and Middle Schoolers aren't allowed to bring cellphones to school, and Upper Schoolers are only allowed to use cellphones during break.

[cdover]

:S. My school is really strict with most things. If you aren't wearing proper black leather shoes then you have to take it off and where flip-flops that they give you. And if you're wearing jewellry (can't spell), nail polish, make-up, wrong uniform (colour is a bit off) then you get told off infront of everyone in the whole Senior School! Ak...oh well. They also have random pocket checks, locker checks, diary checks, drug tests etc etc. Talk about scary...eheh. But all in all it's pretty cool :rolleyes:

[mundets]

Yikes...
Isn't that a little bit... extreme?
The only thing we have here are random drug tests.

[shaheen]

yea singapores pretty strict, my sisters friend got sent off to home cause her dyed hair had just a bit of red showing at the roots which they check... theres always ways around it which i managed to do for bout coupla years.. never got caught:D...

ps:cdover wat school u go to?

[tzeonn]

hmmm.. if my phone rings, i just head straight out of the room and answer it. the teachers wun confiscate the phone.

but if it rings during exams, im gonna get slapped a $50 fine...

im studying in a poly in singapore btw.

[mundets]

My school has some strict rules, but they're not really strongly enforced.
If you have a "radical hairstyle" they'll make you change it/cut it, as soon as possible.
Last year they introduced these things called detention cards, so for every offense you make, you get it signed. If you get 3 signatures or so, you get after school detention it think. But the first signature is just a verbal warning.

[Valdo]

Originally posted by mundets
Wow, a lot of you guys get off easy with your school's cellphone policy!
At my school they're really strict. Lower and Middle Schoolers aren't allowed to bring cellphones to school, and Upper Schoolers are only allowed to use cellphones during break.

My school is ever worse! All the student are not allowed to bring their cellphones, PDAs, Mp3 players and even diskette!

[manav]

Ahh, sometimes I think that living in a devloping nation has its preks! ;)

[Valdo]

Originally posted by manav
Ahh, sometimes I think that living in a devloping nation has its preks! ;)

Yeah...agreed!

[mundets]

I'm in a developing nation...but no perks!

[manav]

Hmm, I do I can catch the teacher out of the school and threaten her to give me good marks or else we break her car's windows. I was never actively involved but still got the perks..

[mundets]

Jesus Christ!
I've never thought about anything LIKE that!
However, I am known around to be somewhat of a suck-up. I call it flattery! Lol

[cdover]

Originally posted by shaheen
ps:cdover wat school u go to?

I got to Tanglin Trust School (not a Singaporean school, but still pretty strict) :).

www.tts.edu.sg <-- website. not very interesting either :S

[zalameh1]

mine hasnt been confiscated "yet"... but my friend's 6600 was, he called up that night pretending he was his dad and told the principal to give him back his phone... and he got it...

[manav]

Originally posted by mundets
Jesus Christ!
I've never thought about anything LIKE that!
However, I am known around to be somewhat of a suck-up. I call it flattery! Lol
He he well thats how the ball rolls here in India!!

[dee]

Originally posted by manav
He he well thats how the ball rolls here in India!!

Same story here in South Africa.

At my school if your phone is seen it gets taken for two months!And even with a lawyer you wont get it back!

Some schools though, take it for a year. Now that is not cool.

[hunkyhenners]

In our school, we have strict rules about mobiles. If you're caught with one on or even if its off in ur pocket in an exam, u automatically fail that official exam and go under investigation and could fail all of ur exams no matter how important or life changing. Its pretty extreme but works :P

[Blueberry Pie]

In my school, all electronics are banned in the school. But, the irony is that when there was a mass spotcheck of bags and students in the school, the school uncovered hundreds of handphones and mp3 players. The school, not wanting to keep the really high amount of electronics in school, afraid that there would be a backlash, gave back the electronics. Talk about an eye-opener! :cool:

Since then, more students have been bringing handphones to school, including me! :D

[shaheen]

singpaores just too strict, like they wont get over the point that if u dont take it out its not a problem, if u have it in yer bag and hiding it away theyll still want it..like wtf, doesnt make any sense! to them, out of site out of mind isnt valid...ive lived in singapore my whole life and now im in melbourne which is so much better, i can bring my mp3 player into class and listen to it when the teacher stops teaching..same for uni in fact...

[manav]

Congrats you are now in for a better life shaheen, anyhow I dont think schools should have any opinion whatsoever on electronic devices.

[fabarati]

i feel sorry for you guys!

in sweden u can bring whatever u like to schools (well, not weapons and drugs and stuff like that). we can use pdas (well i could only do that because of the fact that used it as a calculator and mp3 player) and mp3-players during exams. using phone during lessons depend on the teacher, some are very strict, while others don't care. if your phone is on during exams and u get caught it's seen as cheating, but u can't confiscate a phone and keep it for like two months: it's illegal! we can wear whatever we want, look like we want. it's very free

Originally posted by Deadman
Although Serbia and Montenegro is a poor country(Yugoslavia), people are crazy for phones. 7,2 milion people, and 4,1 milion mobile subscribers. Now that is mobile nation, especially if we count that people change their phones often, and that averge earnings are about 200 EURO(but a lot of other things are cheaper, and a lot of people have two jobs), but any way that is realy a lot of people using cellphones.

i think 80 or 90% of the swedes have a mobile phone. (there's 9 million of us)

[Blueberry Pie]

Looks like Singapore has the strictest education system in the whole, wide world. :mad:

[mundets]

Yeah...
I guess you gotta pay for a nice clean organized city (in contrast to dirty polluted chaotic Manila) by having an ultra-strict education system!

[manav]

Yeah, come here and tell me that!

[mundets]

Do you have jeepneys running all over the place?

[cdover]

Originally posted by mundets
Do you have jeepneys running all over the place?

Haha I wish we did. Life's so boring without jeepneys, tricycles, street vendors, rusting public buses, tricyjeeps, carts and carabow. :).

[mundets]

Oh really???
I want some peaceful traffic experiences!
As in, no jeepneys or rusty public buses. I'm thankful though that there aren't any tricycles, street vendors, or carabao downtown. What's funny though, is that I've encountered street vendors on the highway!

[manav]

Originally posted by mundets
Oh really???
I want some peaceful traffic experiences!
As in, no jeepneys or rusty public buses. I'm thankful though that there aren't any tricycles, street vendors, or carabao downtown. What's funny though, is that I've encountered street vendors on the highway!

And occasionally I do notice a few flying carpets... here and there. But not many :D

[Valdo]

Originally posted by manav
And occasionally I do notice a few flying carpets... here and there. But not many :D

Oh, you mean like Alladin?

[manav]

Yepp!

[Valdo]

Wow, that's cool. Did you see him brought his Ginny, Princess Jasmin, Abu and that parrot (I forgot its name) ?

[SillyRabbit]

hey hey hey... something that happend to me here. got my phone confiscated for 2 months + 1 greenslip

Mundets what school you go to? i go to xavier before.

my school your late 1 min you get a greenslip = 1hr detention. you dont attent that detention in 1 week you get another one. go with my brothers to school so im always late. i had 30 hours of detention after 1 semester of school i think 2.5 months.. omg!

i got my hair cut by some teacher too. shaved half of my head off O_o thats it... didnt even cut it properly...

[mundets]

:O That's student abuse!!!

I go to Brent... Ever hear about taht?

[manav]

Originally posted by Valdo
Wow, that's cool. Did you see him brought his Ginny, Princess Jasmin, Abu and that parrot (I forgot its name) ?

Yoga, I presume?

[Valdo]

Originally posted by manav
Yoga, I presume?

Yayaya, that's right! Damn I hate him! He talks a lot!

[cdover]

Originally posted by Valdo
Yayaya, that's right! Damn I hate him! He talks a lot!

Yoga?? Isn't it Iago?

[manav]

No, its yago! And he is damn funny. I remember once he got transformed into Genie and turned whole of the city upside down. I really like the "monkey" ABU too... :D

[sir50pence]

Schooling in phillipiness must be anoying in london we can play our music players, mobiles, gameboy advance's what ever we want but only at breaktime and lucnchtime.
And how can a teacher cut you hair and go through a diary that's invasion of privacy!

[cdover]

Originally posted by sir50pence
phillipiness
Philippines :D
Originally posted by sir50pence
and go through a diary that's invasion of privacy!

Well this would be school diaries, still pretty stupid though. They also go through you're notebooks and stuff...I mean what are the gonna find?? Notes?? Sheesh. Oh well...

[manav]

C'Dover thats a nice avatar!

[sir50pence]

Yeh but I have wicked ones but they ethier have too many pixels or go past the restricted size limit.
Micheal should change this!

[manav]

Can you gimme a URL?

[shaheen]

i never use my school diary for school related stuff..it starts off that way but in year 10 i decked it out with every page of girls. in year 11 was totally on cars.. like not one line to write anything..
i mean who needs to remember bout homework?..not like i do it even if i write it down.....singapores too strict true but theres 2 kinds of students, 1 who listen to the rules, worried bout taking risks and getting in trouble and stay within the rules, and then theres the ones who go round them, like me who did watever it takes to breakem..of course in melbourne no one cares so no point sneaking around and stuff like that....

[cdover]

Originally posted by manav
C'Dover thats a nice avatar!

:D Thanks. It was actually an emoticon...
www.deviantart.com <-- nothing to do with DEViANT!

[manav]

Oh, BTW hope you know he is away on 6Weeks Vacation to Thailand. Lucky guy!

[mundets]

That's a mighty long vacation...
Imagine the hotel bill he'll receive when he checks out!

[oeck]

our school was great about it all, you couldnt use it in class, if you did you were told to just put it away unless you did it like 10 times in one class then they would take it till the end of the lesson... but when it came to exams you would have to leave everything you had outside, and if you were caught with a mobile phone you exam would be cancelled, youd get a 0, and everyones around you would be too incase of cheating... which happened once, and 5 people had to resiit a whole years course because it was a final exam and they had to redo it, though luckily only took them 2 months before they could again... but help them back a year from going onto university

[mundets]

Eek...that must've sucked

[manav]

I dont think schools should have any say if we should have a phone or not!

[mundets]

But if a phone starts ringing in the middle of a lesson, that's sure to "disrupt the learning process"

[oeck]

I reckon aslong as they dont disturb others during lessons, then its ok, but I agree there and that they shouldnt be anywhere near you when taking exams

[manav]

Yeah, that is right too. You should never get caught red-handed.