Yondr Pouches at Deal

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Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

What kind of snowflakes are we raising that a kid can't walk 40 minutes to get home? Middle schoolers should be able to negotiate this basic stuff without needing to check in with their paranoid mothers.

1- the yondr pouches have been fine and there have been no issues at all. My kid also says that other kids figured out a workaround the first week of school anyway.
2- we live on the other side of rock creek park. It would take my kid almost an hour and a half to walk home. Through rock creek park. I’m pretty permissive with my kid doing stuff alone at this point, but there’s no way I’d let my kid walk home through rock creek park without a working cellphone for an hour and a half. Nope. If I lived in tenleytown or barnaby woods, sure, but not everyone who goes to Deal lives in those neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Banneker High School is the only school that takes phones in morning and gives them back at end of day. Wish other schools would do this as well.

Banneker installed phone lockers (like they have in the lobby of SCIFs). It’s brilliant.

McKinley also has phone lockers at the entrance. It helps a lot but enough students still have watches and iPads. . .