Students aren’t the only ones who say the school needs more consistent rules for electronics — eight of 10 teachers surveyed are annoyed that iPods and cell phones are not uniformly banned from classes.

“They should be banned period!” wrote one teacher on an anonymous survey. “If they aren’t allowed to bring them to school and ALL teachers followed the rules, we wouldn’t have a problem.”

And yet, more than half of teachers, including the teacher who wrote the above quote, said they do allow students to use electronics in some circumstances, usually after a test is over or when students are working independently.

In May, The Eagle Eye asked all teachers to respond anonymously to a five-question survey about electronics on campus. Thirty teachers responded.

The average number of confiscations was eight, with three teachers reporting they’d confiscated no electronics and one teacher claiming to have taken 25 electronic devices away from students this year.

Ten teachers who reported that they’d confiscated electronics said they’d never filled out one of the orange forms that they were asked to file with the office when a student broke the electronics rules. The orange forms were given to teachers in mid-February to help streamline the no-electronics policy across campus.

A first-time offender loses the device until 3:15 p.m. the day it is taken away; a second-time offender must have a parent come retrieve the device; a third-time offender loses the device until June 16, the last day of school.

Electronics “are a social and academic distraction!” wrote one teacher, who said she had taken two electronic devices away from students this year. She said she had never filled out the orange forms and wasn’t sure why she hadn’t.

Among other teachers who said they hadn’t filed an orange sheet with the office, some said they were too much of a hassle or that they wanted to handle discipline within the classroom.

Science teacher Deb Johnson is one of three teachers who gave positive comments about the use of electronics in the classroom.

“Students grew up in a era when studying and music are simultaneous events,” she said. “I study better with music. If it helps and doesn’t infringe on others (too loud) then why not?”