美国教师课堂屏蔽手机信号被无薪停职五天
A Florida high school teacher was suspended without pay on Tuesday for five days for using a cell phone jammer to block students' cell phone service at school.
佛罗里达州一位高中教师于近日因在班里使用信号屏蔽器来阻止学生上课玩手机，被无薪停职五天。
Dean Liptak, a former wrestler turned science teacher at Fivay High School, wanted to stop his students from using their cell phones during classes.
Liptak took matters into his own hands by secretly taking the disruptive device to school and activating it in his classroom from March 31 to April 2.
'I wanted to fix the cell phone problem in my class,' Liptak told a district investigator.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that Liptak said he never wanted to cause problems and that he thought jammers were permitted.
District officials were outraged and told Liptak he may have prevented students from making 911 calls in the case of an emergency.
'Not only did your actions potentially violate federal law, you posed a serious risk to critical safety communications as well as the possibility of preventing others from making9-1-1calls,' Superintendent Kurt Browning wrote in a letter to Liptak.
Liptak said he merely tried to get his students to focus on their school work.
'My intent for using the device was to keep students academically focused on schoolwork,' he said.
Parent Martie Cornell told Bay News 9 understands the frustrations with teens and their phones, but says safety needs to be put first.
"We've got to come to a happy medium, you know, protection and teacher sanity as well, but I think protection outweighs the teachers sanity," said Cornell.