Living in Denial and Unbelief
Imagine this scenario: You are the homeroom teacher for one section of high school juniors. Throughout the semester you have reminded them daily "Phones away during prayers and announcements." The students had a rocky start but later caught on and were generally compliant and had no phones out during homeroom. The end of the semester comes and everyone goes home for Christmas break. Ten days later everyone comes back for the first day of the new semester. It is 7:40AM and the first bell rings - a warning bell. The bell rings again at 7:50AM. Everyone is in their homerooms and prayers come on through loudspeaker. You find that 70% of students have their phones out. How do you respond? If I were the teacher I would be quite disappointed, but at the same time not completely shocked. I don't want to say I expected it because I had hope that my students who continue with their good work - I mean not the entire class violated the...