Cell phone rules at Pyle

[Anonymous]

What is the rule for cell phones at Pyle? My DS says that he is allowed to use his phone in many classes and in the hallway between classes but that certain teachers will confiscate phones on sight. If they're confiscating them and taking them to the office, there must be a rule. I don't understand how this standard can be enforced so capriciously. My son's phone was recently confiscated because he was checking the time.

[Anonymous]

For middle school students, teachers can set the policy for phone use in their class. No clock in the classroom?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/technology/COG-RA%20at%20a%20glance.pdf

[Anonymous]

At my kids middle school phones can not be used at all in school, including during lunch. They should be in lockers. I’ve never heard a single complaint about this. Your kid should suck it up and put his phone away during school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my kids middle school phones can not be used at all in school, including during lunch. They should be in lockers. I’ve never heard a single complaint about this. Your kid should suck it up and put his phone away during school.

The title of this thread clearly states PYLE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my kids middle school phones can not be used at all in school, including during lunch. They should be in lockers. I’ve never heard a single complaint about this. Your kid should suck it up and put his phone away during school.

Is this an MCPS or some authoritarian country?

[Anonymous]

I thought at pyle you can't have your phone out at all until school is over. Maybe they're just not enforcing the rules consistently?

[Anonymous]

It is really arbitrary at Pyle. DC uses it all the time but DC's friend got their phone confiscated more than once for checking their calendar and texting with a parent about pick up.

Is your child non-white by any chance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought at pyle you can't have your phone out at all until school is over. Maybe they're just not enforcing the rules consistently?

The official rule is you're not supposed to have it out during the day, but some teachers don't care and some teachers just use the rule to target kids they don't like for whatever reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my kids middle school phones can not be used at all in school, including during lunch. They should be in lockers. I’ve never heard a single complaint about this. Your kid should suck it up and put his phone away during school.

The title of this thread clearly states PYLE.

I can read. The point was that Pyle should get its act together and OP should tell her kid to get off his phone and not be indignant that he had it taken away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my kids middle school phones can not be used at all in school, including during lunch. They should be in lockers. I’ve never heard a single complaint about this. Your kid should suck it up and put his phone away during school.

Is this an MCPS or some authoritarian country?

Do you want an answer? It’s MCPS and the level of entitlement in this forum re phones in school is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is really arbitrary at Pyle. DC uses it all the time but DC's friend got their phone confiscated more than once for checking their calendar and texting with a parent about pick up.

Is your child non-white by any chance?

And so they should. No reason to be texting a parent during school.

[Anonymous]

This is why teachers are leaving. The class policy is 'no phones'. But you want to argue with the teacher because his phone was taking away when he had his phone out. Teachers can't have rules and can't enforce them because parents like you will argue that it is unfair. We don't have time for this.

Get him a watch. Or teach him to tell time by the clock on the wall. Or buy the teacher a digital clock for the classroom. Or create a stink because your son was breaking a class rule, because your child can't seem to understand that different teachers have different rules. Oh, they all should have the same rule or that they should all enforce the rule. Do you know why teachers don't enforce this rule? Because parents like you will argue that their child was just checking the time and shouldn't have his phone taken away. And because kids always will argue about how they need to check their calendar, text their parents, check the time, etc. It is not about your kid, but a class of 30. Multiple this by 30 and there is just not enough time. Why does this need to be a discussion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why teachers are leaving. The class policy is 'no phones'. But you want to argue with the teacher because his phone was taking away when he had his phone out. Teachers can't have rules and can't enforce them because parents like you will argue that it is unfair. We don't have time for this.

Get him a watch. Or teach him to tell time by the clock on the wall. Or buy the teacher a digital clock for the classroom. Or create a stink because your son was breaking a class rule, because your child can't seem to understand that different teachers have different rules. Oh, they all should have the same rule or that they should all enforce the rule. Do you know why teachers don't enforce this rule? Because parents like you will argue that their child was just checking the time and shouldn't have his phone taken away. And because kids always will argue about how they need to check their calendar, text their parents, check the time, etc. It is not about your kid, but a class of 30. Multiple this by 30 and there is just not enough time. Why does this need to be a discussion?

Couldn’t agree more. No middle schooler should be on their phone during class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the rule for cell phones at Pyle? My DS says that he is allowed to use his phone in many classes and in the hallway between classes but that certain teachers will confiscate phones on sight. If they're confiscating them and taking them to the office, there must be a rule. I don't understand how this standard can be enforced so capriciously. My son's phone was recently confiscated because he was checking the time.

Is there no clock on the wall?

He will have to learn to keep it put away with teachers who enforce the rule.

[Anonymous]

How many people think OPs kid was truley checking the time?