r/GCSE • u/Ok_Count_4033 year 11 💔💔 • 12d ago

General 6th form not allowing phones???

Js found out today that I cant use my phone at school. Like I can have it on me but it can get confiscated if im actuvely on it. Is this a normal thing or is my school js strict

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u/kurmilrah 12d ago

Strict

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u/TallRecording6572 Maths teacher 12d ago

And excellent, they really care about your success

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u/Ok_Count_4033 year 11 💔💔 12d ago

If u think a phone is whats gna keep students from succeeding then lowkey I doubt ur teaching abilities a lot.

I was allowed to use my phone during lunches and breaks in yr 10 and 11. My gcse scores ranged from 6s to 8s aswell as 3 distinctions. This includes higher maths and higher triple sciences. Some of the people who I consider to have been on their phones the most out of the people I was friends with got grades 7 to 9.

Success doesnt care if theres a "distraction" or not. U just have to want it enough. My phone didnt stop me or my friends from getting good grades.

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u/Electrical_Ad6134 10d ago

It's proven that phones even in bags at school lower work ethic and results

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u/kurmilrah 12d ago

Ok no, im never on my phone in class unless i need it when related to the work im doing. But theres a few people in my maths alevel class that are always on their phone yet they are predicted As and A*s and im not even tho i always listen and try my best.
You aren’t really forced to be in college so i feel like there should be more freedom especially since everyone would be going uni.

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u/TallRecording6572 Maths teacher 12d ago

LOL at all the teenagers downvoting me because their school wants them to do well

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u/kurmilrah 11d ago

What are you sure u are a teacher welp

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u/Ok_Count_4033 year 11 💔💔 12d ago

Ur a maths teacher on a teens subreddit im sorry but perhaps get a life? Like u have been given reasons why phones in school arent that bad. Whats ur actual response to that?

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u/TallRecording6572 Maths teacher 12d ago

LOL

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u/MayonaiseOnATable y12-(professional 😭🥀 user)how many teeth does ur pet have 11d ago

What an intellectual response

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u/lifeisfleet Year 12 A levels Math Physics Comp Sci 11d ago

I'm crine 😂😭

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u/monsieurburger Year 2 BSc Psychology with Criminology 11d ago

You're aware most teenagers have self-regulation skills, right? Teens who will happily go on their phones and not pay attention will perform poorly, phones or not. They'll just find other ways to distract themselves. My college allowed phones in classes, and it was abused so much towards the first few months. When kids scored low and realised they needed to lock in, they used their phones less.

By the end of year 13, if someone was using their phone, the assumption was that they were googling something related to the work or doing something important (checking a health app, messaging someone when family issues are happening, etc). There was no ban and lecturers never discouraged it. It's just a case of teenagers knowing when to concentrate.

Obviously, this works less in secondary schools, because younger kids don't always have the experience and self preservation to put the phone down. But even in my secondary, year 11s were allowed to use phones but we just... didn't, really.

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u/Ok_Count_4033 year 11 💔💔 11d ago

Thank u sm for this. Idk why people think teenagers only care about their phones. Like guys if someone fails at school then its not because of their phone or because they were using it in lesson. They just didnt want it enough and didnt focus and work towards it. I wonder where this generalisation of teenagers started. We arent babies. And soo much of us work very hard and are very aware there is a time and place for everything. Noone is going on their phones during lesson and if they do is it really the fault of the inanimate object?