On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 08:04:49 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

>On 6/8/2014 1:32 AM, Jeßus wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 18:20:00 -0500, DreadfulBitch
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/4/2014 11:31 PM, Cheryl wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Julie could also call the teacher and ask. That's what I would do.
>>>>
>>> My son will begin his student teaching assignment this fall. Throughout
>>> his college training the education students have been told to not give
>>> their phone number to students, the main reason being to eliminate that
>>> as a possible means of improper contact between teacher and student. Of
>>> course, prospective teachers are also told to never be alone with a
>>> student for any reason. Things have changed a great deal in the past
>>> few decades.
>>
>> Sad, really.
>
>Never in all my school days did I have my teacher's phone number.

I know I didn't either.

>Not one of them. It would never have occurred to me to call them.
>You wrote the day's assignments in the back of your books, you
>brought home the appropriate text books and if you couldn't
>coordinate those tasks, you got to explain why no homework to
>hand in the next day.

My experience also

>Such drama over a homework assignment. And I know this is maybe
>a radical thing ... but after grade school, my mother didn't know
>what my assignments were, I was expected to do my own homework.
>Using all those heavy books I toted around.

Yes. When I was in year 11 and 12 high school, our school was a little
radical in that whilst we still had classes, it was mainly for giving
us the work we needed to do.
Aside from that - you didn't even need to attend school at all, as
long as your assignments were done on time. It worked well for me -
I'm sure some fell between the cracks, but then that was already
happening with the traditional method of teaching anyway.

>Or go to the library, which wasn't a problem since I worked there
>two hours a day all through high school.

That's where we went - to the library, including the state library.