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I can’t really tell if Teva is the way to go anymore.

I am a teacher now (9th grade), but I graduated high school in 2019. Phones were never allowed outside of lunch in my experience; it wasn’t really a debate. Sometimes you might sneak on it to send a single text during class, but your phone would be confiscated pretty reliably. You never supposed that you could go sit down and not listen to your teacher.

I’m an educator now (9th grade). My school has the same policy. If I see a kid go on their phone, it’s gone. My school has a pretty clear expectation of what class looks like in every single class, in every single subject: students enter the room, take out their materials before class starts. They are at absolute volume 0 doing entry work for the first 5 minutes — unless you want an interactive / group work one! — which is then reviewed. Teacher then has everyone’s complete attention while doing what they want, typically notes are review. If you aren’t actively taking notes, you are redirected, much less if you’re distracting others. The idea of a phone being anywhere in this equation is shocking and horrifying to me; if I’m getting mad at kids for silently drifting off and not paying attention to my lesson, what the fuck are you supposed to do if you’re competing with 30 second videos?

How is this ^ situation deemed remotely OK by any institution, governmental or family? How could this be the norm if it wasn’t in 2019?

I get pissed and overstimulated if there is a single pair of students whispering while I’m instructing — why do I have to do work and design a lesson for your benefit only for you to be able to not respect what I’ve done?

What are other schools like? How are kids learning if it’s not teacher talking, student listening? I have some independent work time, but even the idea of student-led learning involving Chromebooks seems like an awful idea without active instructing, monitoring, and a deliverable tied to a lecture. I’m 25… is this old school?

Rant over.

I’ve found a pharmacy (Genoa) that explicitly allows you to request generics from manufacturers if those manufacturers have them in stock. Which ones should I be looking for?