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ORIGINAL: JW

I finally saw some of my students playing Pokemon Go today. I am a high school teacher. I teach English (Standard American English, to be precise) and journalism/publications (the school yearbook and newspaper). We have been in session for a week. Finally today some of my journalism students started talking about Pokemon. I get to handpick those students, and they are bright, artistic kids. They informed me that the school is positively infested with Pokemon. The problem is that they are not allowed to use their phones in the school building. Obviously that doesn't hold true in all classrooms. For my journalism class (We call it "yearbook."), our motto is, "What happens in yearbook stays in yearbook." So I found that half of them play regularly. There was a rare Pokemon in the building, and they wanted to go track it down, but I couldn't let them because an administrator might see them with their phones.

In case you are wondering, I don't allow phones in my English classes. If I do, those students will do nothing but stay on their phones. My yearbook kids will use their phones and still get their work done, and they will do it very well. Unfair, perhaps, but realistic.