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Originally Posted by Seige
I can't imagine me sticking my hand in my pocket being a distraction to others, there is no sound, and it takes me about 3 seconds to check. But perhaps some of your students need to open bags and such, that I guess I can understand.
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If you can get the phone out of your pocket very quietly, check it and return it in about 3 seconds, I'd likely never notice. The disruption comes from the part which requires getting up and leaving class to take the call, which is a major distraction. Now you may be very, very adept at judging the importance of the call based on who is calling, but the person calling may not be quite so adept, and may be calling for a trivial reason. But lets grant that you're quite good at knowing when the call is important enough to disrupt class, and when it isn't. Not everyone is going to be that good at judging which calls are important. And, sadly, many would just plain lie because they want to take calls from friends. How am I to distiguish those who are perceptive about which calls are important, those who think they are, but have poor judgement, and the jerks who just don't care?
You sound like you have a very reasonable approach, and if all students were like this, it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, there too many people who are inconsiderate or who cheat, or who just aren't careful not to be disruptive simply because they don't care. Rules meant to curb their behavior end up catching otherwise reasonable people in the net. [/QUOTE]