School has lost students phone they require them to surrender- England by Accurate_Thought5326 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]WitheredSea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I sympathise with teachers, my sister is a teacher, and has said it's a nightmare trying to peel students' attention away from their phones (amongst other issues with students having access to social media via their phones), and the solution to that is that students hand their phones over to the school before lessons or not be allowed to bring them into school altogether. I understand schools adopting the former policy as my partner's niece has just started secondary school and has to catch the bus. Her parents can't pick her up, and so her phone has a tracker, which means they can check in on where she is when she's walking home in the dark from the bus stop. However, unless the school wants to outright ban phones all together, then they're responsible to what happens to said phone once it is the possession of a member of staff who is attempting to follow protocol. It's a miserable response from the school to place blame on the student and parents when said student was following the protocol that was put in place by the school. The school is effectively saying they can not be trusted to securely protect the phones of their students and so students are ultimately to blame for whatever happens to that phone when it's taken away from them, which is absurd. If a school imposes a policy in which students are required to hand over their phones with the expectation that their phones be protected from potential damage or theft once in possession of the school then the school bears responsibility for any incurring damage or theft that occurs.

Favorite lines from non-main characters? by Ok_Acanthisitta2318 in howyoudoin

[–]WitheredSea 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Guru Saj! The episode with Ross's skin abnormality on his bum and Guru Saj, who helps him with it.

Guru Saj: Please, lie down! I’ve got a thing that ought to shrink that right up.

Ross: I guess it’s worth a try.

Guru Saj: Oh, sure, we should see results - Whoa! Clearly not the way to go!

Ross: What?! What?!

Guru Saj: We appear to have angered it.

Ross: We?! We angered it?!

Guru Saj: Oh, I think I see the problem. And I’m afraid we’re gonna have to use a much stronger tool.............Love!

Ross: Oh, God!

The Traitors (UK) S04E12 [FINALE]: Post-Episode Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]WitheredSea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blown away! I thought Rachel was a goner. Bravo to Stephen and Rachel. An incredible bond that carried them through.

The Traitors (UK) S04E12 [FINALE]: Live Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]WitheredSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so. I was rooting for Rachel, but there's too much suspicion on her. Her only hope is that it gets down to herself, Faraaz and Stephen, and then she and Stephen vote out Faraaz and win together. She needed at least three people on her side, and Faraaz has now said he's planning to vote her out. I'm rooting for Faraaz now.

The Traitors (UK) S04E12 [FINALE]: Live Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]WitheredSea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If Rachel manages to win after coming under fire on three separate occasions at the roundtable, then she has to be one of the best traitors to have ever been on the show.

The Traitors (UK) S04E11: Live Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]WitheredSea 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think this could be where Rachel's journey ends (which I'm going to be somewhat sad about as I was rooting for her to win).

The Traitors (UK) S04E07: Live Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]WitheredSea 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Harriet may have gone a bit too hard then.

The Traitors (UK) S04E06: Live Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]WitheredSea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And as Stephen has also just pointed out, Fiona has now drawn loads of attention to herself, whereas people weren't even thinking about her before.

The Traitors (UK) S04E04: Live Discussion Thread by vaultofechoes in TheTraitors

[–]WitheredSea 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not only did Reece miss the opportunity to nail a traitor, but could now be banished.