Glendale High School math teacher

[gamavor]

http://tert.am/en/news/2012/06/24/arsenian-cell/

 

Glendale High School math teacher Taline Arsenian faced recently a trouble after seizing a student’s cellphone that displayed a photograph of two naked women kissing each other.

 

 

According to Glendale-News Press, the photo which emanated from the phone’s screen, was visible to everyone in the classroom.

 

 

Arsenian reportedly locked the device in a drawer, a move that made the student uncooperative

 

 

 

“Apparently, he went to an administrator and told on me,” Arsenian said. “The administrator came back to my room at lunch time and ordered me to give it back to him.”

 

 

The incident is said underscore inconsistencies in disciplinary practices within Glendale Unified — from school to school, if not from employee to employee — in addressing the omnipresence of electronic devices in the classroom.

 

 

District officials announced earlier this month that they were looking to rewrite existing school board policy, providing direction on how to handle illicit cellphone use, but ultimately leaving the details up to school site administrators. The conversation is unfolding even as Glendale Unified — armed with a $270-million school bond — works to brand itself as a pacesetter in education technology.

 

 

The new language was born out of incidents in which cellphones confiscated by teachers subsequently went missing, said Deputy Supt. John Garcia. He declined to quantify the number of disappearances, but noted that the proposed policy would protect teachers from liability issues.

 

“It doesn’t lessen their authority to manage their classroom and work within their classroom,” Garcia said at a recent school board meeting. “What this is aimed at addressing is the complications related to confiscating something that technically belongs to a student and their parents.”

 

PS: That is what is wrong with that country! Instead of being concerned about complications related to seizing of personal belonging (device), the school board should summon the parents of the kid and warn them about committing indecent public exposure in the classroom of their child!

Edited June 24, 2012 by gamavor