APE has not taken over the School Health Advisory Board where they have turned their anti cell phone rampage into an actual recommendation to the school board. So if you don't like it, let the school board know please! |
sorry typo, should have said *now*, not *not* |
I understand APE hate, but they're right about phones. We're messing with our kids' brains. They should be banned from schools. Read some of the recent scientific studies on this. |
Ditto! This is making me like APE. The anti-APE-anti-cell-phoners are likely parents who just couldn't effectively manage their kids phone/digital device use and now justify it as impractical/impossible/unrealistic/or even a necessity. I don't care about cell phones per se; but I do care about cell phones in school and they should absolutely be banned during the school day. |
Broken clock is right twice a day. I agree that phones should be banned. As should ignorant, irrational bullies from school work groups. |
No, we are parents who CAN manage our kids' cell phone use, and understand that it's better to teach kids how to use them responsibly than to ban them altogether. |
Cell phones should be put away while kids are in school. That shouldn't even be up for debate. |
You sound like parents who use this excuse to serve alcohol to 15yr olds. The science doesn’t agree with you on the benefits of giving your elementary and middle schoolers access to social media. |
Banning them in school is not banning them entirely. And if a parent chooses to not allow their kid to have anything more than a flip phone, that's their choice and nothing wrong with it. It's their way of teaching their kids responsible phone use (ie, not using them at inappropriate times or in inappropriate places such as school.) Part of teaching kids to use cell phones responsibly is to teach them not to use them at all when they are in classes, in meetings, or socializing in groups in person. Of course, I'm sure none of these parents' kids are doing any of that. |
you sound like someone with an elementary or middle schooler. Do you even have any idea how much kids are using these for educational purposes? I'm sure you do not. |
so if a kid's APS laptop stops working and the school takes 2 weeks to repair it, you want to prevent the kid from using their phone to access their work? |
you sound a little unhinged and very naive. Based on your post, I am guessing you have elementary and middle schooler, but yet want to ban high schoolers from phone use too. |
No, I want APS to not rely on digital devices for instruction and assignments. Since that's not going to happen, APS needs to be able to provide the devices necessary to do the work and teachers should not be requiring students to have a phone to do anything school-related, including digital calculators. Believe it or not, not every high school student has a cell phone with access to the internet. And believe it or not, sometimes high school students lose their cell phone privileges when parents take them away due to behavior or, ironically, poor academic performance. If APS requires students to have a phone, they should provide one. If they require a device to access work, they need to provide one. |
You sound like someone being bamboozled by their teenager. I haven't had a kid in middle school or elementary school for 3 years. It is rare - if ever - that they use their phone for school work, especially IN school. Everything can be done on their laptops. |
Not the PP; but you seem to think it's impossible and ludicrous to ban the use of phones DURING SCHOOL HOURS or minimally DURING CLASS. Not banning phone use period. |