When I was teaching in the dark ages before teenagers had cell phones, there were pagers.

[hunter]

Pagers were verboten in our school because many of the kids who had them were running drugs for the gangs.

I was teaching Physical Science (IPS) when I heard a pager go off. I walked up to the big girl with the pager, holding out my hand for her to hand it over to me, but she defiantly stuffed the pager into her bra, daring me to confiscate it.

Yeah, right, like I'm going blow my career away over something like that...

I documented for admin, and life went on.

I called her mom that day too, and heard stories.

But this kid's pager never went off in my classroom again.

[meow2u3]

1. When I was in high school, teens passed notes

That was in the '70's.

[PADemD]

2. I went to school in the Dark Ages before there were pagers.

It seems that teachers were more resourceful to getting kids to behave back then.

In our math teacher's class, he would say all books on the floor and pass out papers for a pop quiz that would count for a large percentage of our grade.

The teacher in this situation could have done the same thing. The girl would have had to decide if she wanted to text or get an F averaged in her grade.

[Journeyman]

3. Very creative, and non-confrontational . . .

I imagine it invoked some peer-pressure for all to behave, as well, to avoid another pop quiz.