{"id":6682,"date":"2025-10-06T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:33:58","slug":"no-phones-down-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2025\/10\/06\/no-phones-down-day\/","title":{"rendered":"No Phones Down Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a short day last week. Not enough time for a full lesson, and several periods had just come off a legit hard test.<\/p>\n

I put this up on the monitor at the front of the class.<\/p>\n

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“What’s that?” someone asked when they came into the room, pointing in genuine perplexity at the cryptic (?) glyph.<\/p>\n

“It’s our plan for the period,” I said. There was an almost-audible sign in the room.<\/p>\n

Of course that wasn’t quite true. (Of course<\/em> it wasn’t.) There were kids who worked on test corrections. There were kids who worked on missing assignments. There were kids studying for other classes.<\/p>\n

But there were no phones (as is the case every day this year, now that the legislature has our back on at least that issue).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a short day last week. Not enough time for a full lesson, and several periods had just come off a legit hard test. I put this up on the monitor at the front of the class. “What’s that?” someone asked when they came into the room, pointing in genuine perplexity at the cryptic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6683,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/6683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}