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Originally Posted by kutulu
But so is expecting everyone to conform to what some people call distracting.
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?
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Before the movie starts it asks you to turn off cell phones and pagers. So the problem is:
a) The person with the cell phone can't read.
b) the person with the cell phone came in after the movie started (another pet-peeve)
c) The person that owns the cell phones figures the rule don't apply to them.
I'm guessing c
Which would also carry over to the classroom. It isn't simply a matter of the teacher teaching, but of disrupting your fellow students and wasting (stealing) their time. I have no problem with setting your phone to vibrate, sitting near the door, and discretely walking out to take a call. Anything else is deciding that your convenience(time) is more important than everyone elses.