One afternoon as I was leaving school, I got stuck behind a first grader in the stairwell who was walking very slowly, hand up to her ear, and chattering away. She was completely unaware of her surroundings and was holding up several people behind her. When we finally got out the door, I passed her, looked back at her and realized that she was chatting on a paper cell phone!A few days later we had a fire drill and my class was gathered near the first graders. While we were waiting to go back inside, I heard the first grade teacher calling to one of her students, "Molly, get off your cell phone and come sit down!". The teacher saw me watching and said, "You think I'm kidding!" and I replied that I had seen it before and knew she wasn't.
Imitation is alive and well in the first grade! And their behavior while on their paper cell phones is just as obnoxious as adults on the real thing!
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Luckily I haven't seen this in our first grade, but the second graders have both paper cell phones and laptops!
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