Which private MSs and HSs have strict phone policies?

[Anonymous]

Which private schools have strict phone policies that prohibit kids from using their phones during the day at school? Not just have the policy but actually enforce it? Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Burke has a lock box for phones of middle school students. Phones aren’t allowed during the school day.

[Anonymous]

I don't think you'll find a high school that does

[Anonymous]

Field also takes phones during the day for MS

[Anonymous]

Burgundy Farm middle school doesn’t allow phones. They are very strict. In fact, they don’t even let kids use them after school while waiting for pick up. Phones are taken away if caught and parents have to come pick them up from the head of middle school’s office (I think?)

[Anonymous]

High schools usually allow phones during the day when not in class. When we toured high schools, I noticed many schools had those clear plastic shoe holders hung up. Kids had to put their phones in the shoe holders as they enter class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High schools usually allow phones during the day when not in class. When we toured high schools, I noticed many schools had those clear plastic shoe holders hung up. Kids had to put their phones in the shoe holders as they enter class.

My child’s public high school does this too.

[Anonymous]

It's a bit of a moot point since kids are now on their computers in class most of the day texting each other from the computer platforms and switching between class assignments and youtube windows. The bigger problem is this huge amount of time they all now spend slumped over a computer in general-- that has become normalized. Try to estimate your DC's amount of time in front of a computer ( or phone..or any electronic) from bus to school to lights out..its most of the day. We all need to grapple with this huge problem that collecting phones at school does not fix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a bit of a moot point since kids are now on their computers in class most of the day texting each other from the computer platforms and switching between class assignments and youtube windows. The bigger problem is this huge amount of time they all now spend slumped over a computer in general-- that has become normalized. Try to estimate your DC's amount of time in front of a computer ( or phone..or any electronic) from bus to school to lights out..its most of the day. We all need to grapple with this huge problem that collecting phones at school does not fix.

Not an issue at schools that monitor computer use. For example, any iPad school will have teachers equipped with the capability to see each kid’s screen and immediately redirect them to the correct location and/or share a message without alerting the rest of the class. This technology exists for PCs but it’s more clunky.

[Anonymous]

The Langley School doesn’t allow phones but they don’t take them from kids (e.g. someone mentioned lockboxes). Kids keep them in locker or backpack.

[Anonymous]

Any school known for being phone fascists? There's got to be at least a couple that ban them outright? (Some of the more reviled "traditional" schools, maybe?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any school known for being phone fascists? There's got to be at least a couple that ban them outright? (Some of the more reviled "traditional" schools, maybe?)

I really don't think so. That ship sailed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a bit of a moot point since kids are now on their computers in class most of the day texting each other from the computer platforms and switching between class assignments and youtube windows. The bigger problem is this huge amount of time they all now spend slumped over a computer in general-- that has become normalized. Try to estimate your DC's amount of time in front of a computer ( or phone..or any electronic) from bus to school to lights out..its most of the day. We all need to grapple with this huge problem that collecting phones at school does not fix.

Not an issue at schools that monitor computer use. For example, any iPad school will have teachers equipped with the capability to see each kid’s screen and immediately redirect them to the correct location and/or share a message without alerting the rest of the class. This technology exists for PCs but it’s more clunky.

But a teacher who is teaching isn't also checking an iPad simultaneously. Of course it's technically possible to monitor, but in practice there is a lot of YouTube going on. It would be even better if schools would BLOCK youtube on devices used in class, but I haven't ever seen this. I have asked.

[Anonymous]

Oakcrest, I think?

[Anonymous]

The Heights. Low tech school. No Ipads or Laptops