Parental controls on phone to go with Govs new phone policy

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should advocate to ACPS to let your kids use the front office phone in one-off emergencies instead of lugging around an $500-1200 cellphone? Because we all know which schools/student bodies creates these issues.

(It is not the ones who can’t afford them.)

I agree with you that just using the office phone would be much better, and students should be able to do that. But I’m trying to point out that not all school systems are amenable to such things. I don’t know what you’re getting at with the rest of your comment.

Smartphones are expensive. Poor kids aren't causing the problem. It's middle class parents giving phones to their entitled kids too early.

I assure you that students from all backgrounds have phones.

I assure you that the problems with smartphones are caused by (mostly white and privileged) parents raising entitled kids.

Teacher here and no, that’s not an issue in my class. I don’t have any problem with phones because the rules are set from day 1. The issue is the laptops. I want a laptop free school and go bad to the days of computer labs or laptop carts where we had to sign them out. They are “multitasking” or “taking notes” and not paying any attention to class. I have paper only no laptop assignments and a group will instantly point out how they have a 504 or IEP accommodation that they are allowed to use it in class. I say we are not taking notes at the moment and then I get pulled out of class the next day by a counselor or admin because a parent called and complained that I violated an accommodation. Your kids are distracted more by school laptops.

Oh look! A “teacher” showed up at an opportune time spouting RW talking points.

Sure,Jan.

RW talking points? What? Now complaining laptops has been declared un-left?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS draft policy is per usual totally ineffective and weak. Requires teachers to interpret “instructional time.” What does that mean? And it does nothing to relieve the issue of teens spending all their hallway/downtime on phones instead of being present socially for their peers. Or social media bullying during the school day. Or any of the other harms. Weak sauce. Pathetic.

Present socially for their peers? Listen to yourself. My kid can't have her phone because she has to be present to socialize with your snowflake?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should advocate to ACPS to let your kids use the front office phone in one-off emergencies instead of lugging around an $500-1200 cellphone? Because we all know which schools/student bodies creates these issues.

(It is not the ones who can’t afford them.)

I agree with you that just using the office phone would be much better, and students should be able to do that. But I’m trying to point out that not all school systems are amenable to such things. I don’t know what you’re getting at with the rest of your comment.

Smartphones are expensive. Poor kids aren't causing the problem. It's middle class parents giving phones to their entitled kids too early.

I assure you that students from all backgrounds have phones.

I assure you that the problems with smartphones are caused by (mostly white and privileged) parents raising entitled kids.

Oh god. Seriously? Everything has to be a race issue? This is a kid issue. Cell phones are addictive to teens. Period. If you want have to a fight about which kids are worse behaved on phones, you are as stupid as your post sounds. You are distracting from an issue that affects all of our children with race baiting. Please go away.

Easy solution: Keep those phones at home! Be the change you want to see in the world!

DP here. My honors kids with phones have straight A’s and way too much time to kill at school. Maybe instead the school should focus on not teaching to the lowest common denominator. I have no problem with them going on their phone if they have done all of today’s work and all of tomorrow’s too, which is a regular occurrence.

Whoever is the poster today who is demanding that all of these perfect parents homeschool, you're hilarious! I'm jumping on your bandwagon instead of APE trolls on the thread today.

This one needs to homeschool too since they obviously know more than APS teachers, administrators and leadership. Go forth, stay home and leave the rest of us alone!

You and I have VERY different values. Glad your kid has straight As. In what grade? I’ve got bright kids too. And I want your kids off their phones in school. They can melt their brains all day long on your time and I could care less.

DP here. 12th and 9th. The teachers need to do better. My kids are never on their phones when they have work to do. Never. Only when bored with nothing to do. In fact they rarely have homework because so much of their work is completed in school. Sometimes near the end of the quarter they will take entire days off of school because teachers will announce in advance they are giving “catch up days” to all the kids with missing work. And my kids aren’t geniuses. Just smart kids who focus and do their work. The teachers just don’t give enough work - the bar is way too low because of all the lazy kids. So if we are going to ban phones, teachers need to provide work that takes the kids the whole block, and those who don’t finish can do it at home, rather than my kids staring at the wall waiting for them.

Have them bring a book to read when they finish their work. They can enjoy what they are reading and not be distracting others looking at a phone.

I am not sure why this is hard.

You think you have this all figured out? Well, my kid tried that once and the teacher confiscated the book!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS draft policy is per usual totally ineffective and weak. Requires teachers to interpret “instructional time.” What does that mean? And it does nothing to relieve the issue of teens spending all their hallway/downtime on phones instead of being present socially for their peers. Or social media bullying during the school day. Or any of the other harms. Weak sauce. Pathetic.

Present socially for their peers? Listen to yourself. My kid can't have her phone because she has to be present to socialize with your snowflake?

Negative. She can’t have the phone because it’s a disruptive device, she’s not learning jack while sending snaps or TikTok’s and lastly because the digital addition ends up reducing IQ. There are papers with scientific research to back this up but asking you to read a document of such caliber might present you with insurmountable challenges. After all, you seem ok to have your child live glued to a screen as opposed to interacting with other humans. Go figure.

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Anonymous wrote:APS draft policy is per usual totally ineffective and weak. Requires teachers to interpret “instructional time.” What does that mean? And it does nothing to relieve the issue of teens spending all their hallway/downtime on phones instead of being present socially for their peers. Or social media bullying during the school day. Or any of the other harms. Weak sauce. Pathetic.

Present socially for their peers? Listen to yourself. My kid can't have her phone because she has to be present to socialize with your snowflake?

Negative. She can’t have the phone because it’s a disruptive device, she’s not learning jack while sending snaps or TikTok’s and lastly because the digital addition ends up reducing IQ. There are papers with scientific research to back this up but asking you to read a document of such caliber might present you with insurmountable challenges. After all, you seem ok to have your child live glued to a screen as opposed to interacting with other humans. Go figure.

you seem completely rational. triggered much???

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty obvious here that some parents have children who can’t do any learning or school work with access to a phone, and therefore assume ALL children are like that. They aren’t. And as usual they are being drug down by those who can’t handle things.

Good luck in college when they have to put work before fun without the school forcing them. Some teens already know how to do that in HS.

[Anonymous]

Youngkin’s nanny state.

Horrible governor

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious here that some parents have children who can’t do any learning or school work with access to a phone, and therefore assume ALL children are like that. They aren’t. And as usual they are being drug down by those who can’t handle things.

Good luck in college when they have to put work before fun without the school forcing them. Some teens already know how to do that in HS.

Have you been to college recently? They don't know that there either.

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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s nanny state.

Horrible governor

Excellent governor. He is batting a thousand wrt education.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty obvious here that some parents have children who can’t do any learning or school work with access to a phone, and therefore assume ALL children are like that. They aren’t. And as usual they are being drug down by those who can’t handle things.

Good luck in college when they have to put work before fun without the school forcing them. Some teens already know how to do that in HS.

Have you been to college recently? They don't know that there either.

The lazy slackers don’t know it. Plenty of smart kids are excelling in college despite smart phones and a lack of rules regarding them.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but… Be aware that kids can find ways around any parental controls.

In the two years that my son has had an iPhone, he hasn't yet found a way around it. I use the Apple Screentime feature that is built in to every single iPhone. I set the hours that the phone doesn't work and which apps shut down when, how many hours allowed on specific apps, and contact that are always allowed (me and his dad and his grandparents). It's really not hard and as long as they can't guess the passcode, seems to work.

This is hands down the funniest thing I’ve read online this week.

[Anonymous]

Parental Choice for me but not for thee!!!!