bring crap to school....dont get it back until June
When I was younger, I attended a Catholic parochial school from K-6. We knew what was appropriate to bring and not to bring to school. One of my teachers had a drawer in her desk...called her June Drawer.
The drawer was simple. Bring something to school, she put it in her drawer until June when school got out. Then you could get it back.
Working in my ISS room...on a daily basis, I see kids bring stuff just in that room that they are not supposed to bring to school. They try to hide MP3 players, CD players, Ipods, cell phones...etc. I try to take them away from the students and when I do, I keep them in my drawer and hand them back at the end of the day. Im supposed to turn it over to the schools office, but I tell the students that if they give it to me there, I will give it back to them. If they dont, I will have adminsitration come up and take the item away and they can deal with it. This usually results in my favor.
One thing though is that students keep bringing stuff to school, over and over again despite multiple warnings. I have students in my room that are there for the day because they refuse to hand their cell phone over to school administration. Personally, I feel that if you cant follow the rules and policies the school sets forth and continuously break them, there should be more strict of a punishment.
Myself, I would like to give the students a couple of warnings, and if they fail to follow the guidelines, then the item should be confiscated and kept until the end of the last day of school when it can be returned.
While, Im sure this is probably against some sort of law, it helps keep discipline issues down and keeps students in check of their own behavior and choices. Dont want your phone taken away? Don't bring it to school where it does Not belong.
I don't know what it is, the suspense of possibly getting caught doing something you are not supposed to be doing. Some students also have the mentality, that 'its mine, I can do whatever I want...me me me me me.'
Schools have policies that you should not bring various items to school because you are there to learn, not to talk to your sisters exboyfriend on your cell phone, not to text message some guy pretending to be a girl that you met on the internet last night, but you are there to learn.
What do you think? This is a weird issue. As technology advances, things get smaller and smaller and students are ever more creative in finding ways to sneak banned things into schools. Levi Jeans are making pants this summer (or fall) that have a hidden pocket for MP3 players. Students wear hoods and / or have long hair to hide cords and ear pieces to music players. They sit in the back of the room and use their cell phones to play games and text message...etc, its getting out of hand and something needs to be done about it.