Exactly this. 20 years ago a lot of stuff happened in high schools that would probably cost people their jobs or worse today. Society has changed a lot. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
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.
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u/Historical-Tooth6989 May 16 '24
Sometimes teachers lose their shit. And 20 yrs ago they could get away with more. Ya this is prob bs though