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Originally Posted by Gilda
Disrupting someone elses activities unnecessarily to attend to your personal business is rude.
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But so is expecting everyone to conform to what some people call distracting.
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When you sign up for a class, you are making a commitment to make that class first priority during the time for which it is scheduled. You are further agreeing to abide by the policies of the University and that particular instructor. If you cannot be there and devote that time to that purpose, and follow the rules, you shouldn't be in that class. If you find a "no cell phones in class" policy unduly interferes with your life, the solution is simple: Don't take that class.
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The thing is that it's not that simple. First of all, teachers' policies are not posted with the class schedules. Therefore it is impossible to know if you are going to end up with some god complex teacher with asinine requirements and includes trivial matters like attendance into your grade. Additionally, there are plenty of situations where there are classes a student needs that are only taught by one professor. Gee, I guess I should change my major then?
A good teacher can teach the subject despite class members showing up late, leaving early, sleeping, or leaving temporarily to take a call. You don't know what that call is about so who are you to judge the importance of that call?