Ever wonder if a student is really paying attention? A group of students from Heritage Middle School used technology in an improper way. This event took place towards the end of the school year. There are many ways of instant messaging with other people in the building or even outside of the building. These student in particular used the app called "Spotify". Spotify is an app in which you can listen to music. But you can do more than that you can also instant message with other people. Once the teachers found out about the problem with this app they were furious and loony. To think that they were teaching and the students weren't even paying attention or getting any work done. Could this be the reason some students weren't doing good in class? Even to think that students could've been talking with someone outside of the building/room is crazy.
The teachers came together and made a plan on how they would deal with the situation. Of course they went back and forth on how they would approach the situation. But it was also hard to choose what to do because the students could find somewhere else to message with there peers. Finally the teachers decided they would ban Spotify not even to be listening to music only. Before that they made sure anyone that had the app would uninstall it off of their device. .At the time if they had it would received an instant foul. Anytime after that if they were caught using Spotify they would revive a falcon foul. For those students using technology inappropriately revived a detention. What was going on spread quickly around the school. Of course the students found it irritating and were angry.Then later on they also they question why they don't have a good grade in class. Although annoyed with the teachers could have it been the best call to ban Spotify . If the students were smart they wouldn't use it or else they would face the consequenc
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