Mr. Rosenfeld, Ahem.......

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Teacher Cell Phone Use Unacceptable.":

Cell phone usage or checking messages should not be allowed in the classroom at all. Totally inappropriate. Teachers are role models - they should act accordingly. Teachers need to hold themselves to a higher standard especially when they are in front of students and they are getting paid to work. They can check their phones on their breaks. If they took their jobs as professionally as they claimed during the contract negotiations, they would turn their ringers off and tell people who might call them during the day to not call them since its very unprofessional for their cell phones to ring while they are teaching. That's what professional people in the business world do. If there is a major emergency the call can go through the school office. I am sure that when a teacher is getting evaluated by a principal or when parents are visiting they make sure their ringers are off and wouldn't dare check for messages. They should be doing this all the time. To even defend this rude behavior as OK because teachers are adults is telling the students "do as I say not as I do." What an embarrassment. The Board of Ed should develop a policy on this.