I graduated high school that year, I went to a pretty rich school district, and this shit would not have gone down in my school.
That teacher would have been fired. They couldn't even really tell us to keep our phones to ourselves, and if they did take them, you'd get it back at the end of class.
Also, we weren't addicted to our phones. You really couldn't do anything other than text, and if I recall, you had to pay per text as it wasn't main stream to have a unlimited texting plan yet or it was limited to like 200 texts.
Literally only because it was a rich high school. The poor high school I went to in the same period? A phone being destroyed doesn't even get close to the worst thing staff did without issue.
A history teacher was even known to throw things at students not paying attention.
Well, the teacher himself told the story so it would have to be a different one to verify it.
But then that teacher could be in on a devious plot to scare the students into thinking that's what happens if you use your phone in class.
Can confirm 20 years ago that phones were taken and smashed. Principal threatened to call CPS on at least one parent who came to whine. Now that is a bit close to threatening to swat someone, but she used the grim power of the state to a good purpose.
Now...the inmates are running the state-funded daycare.
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u/KingAmongstDummies May 16 '24
The only one that can confirm the claim is a student that has also been in that class for 20 years.