High school teacher who obstructed using mobile phone in class during jamming was suspended

ByPercy Sledge Agbunag Carballo

It goes without saying that you should not use mobile phones during class, but as a measure against students who stop using mobile phones even if they are cautious,jammingIt has been reported that high school teachers who had shut off the radio waves of mobile phones during class by using equipment were suspended.

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Dean Reptak, a teacher at Phaebey High School in Florida, USA, who was suspended from using the jamming device. Regional Board of Education gives students a serious risk because forcibly blocking student's mobile phone communication will not be able to send emergency call numbers such as 911 when an emergency occurs As a result, Mr. Reptuk was suspended for five days without a fine.

During the three days from March 31 to April 2, Mr. Reptak operated a jamming device which shuts down the communication of the mobile device only during his class. An incident was discovered by detecting that the American communications company Verizon detected that the radio waves of mobile phone base stations were disabled on the premises of the school. Mr. Reptak said, "If an emergency occurred, it was possible to restore radio waves as soon as you press the power button." Before use, I checked with the local police and said, "There must be no state law that you should not use jamming equipment unless there is malice." However,Federal Communications CommissionThe website of "The use of a jamming device is forbidden by law for any purpose"There is a statement.

Mr. Reptak published a protest against this disciplinary action, and the reason why we used the jamming device during the class is for education purpose only, and when there are students using mobile phones secretly, we interrupt classes each time He told me that he thought he would lower the concentration of all the students because he had to be careful. Furthermore, records are left for students who do not give up even if they are cautioned, and students who have reached a certain number can not participate in extracurricular lessons etc. Therefore, as a result of taking such circumstances into consideration, they have reached the use of jamming equipment It explains.

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In addition, Mr. Reptak produced the jamming device by watching HowTo movies on YouTube, and he said he purchased necessary parts at Amazon. Also,Local media coverageAccording to Mr. Reptak it is the second disposition of this case. Mr. Lyptak has a career that turned from a professional wrestler to a science teacher, but with the tests conducted in the past, the problem of asking for "the speed of the student thrown on the wall" or "the mass of the car with the baby" I have received my first disposition as a result of my question.