New Policy: APS school board adopts all-day ban on student phone use, makes one exception

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Anonymous wrote:The APEs still have little kids. Wait til their kids get older and get to high school and they realize what they don't know now. Kids in high school can't just whip out their ipad to do what phones can because oops they don't have one. And practice changed but coach can't get a message to them in high school and front office sure isn't going to deliver it.

And also wait til they see this policy won't do anything because all the things they complain about with phones are being done on APS ipads.

I look forward to their outrage, but they will just have themselves to blame.

What are you even talking about? Yes iPads can do a lot of things iPhones can, but it’s way harder to sneak it in the back row of a classroom in your lap.

Most iPads will be school issued and limit social media; if they don’t that’s an IT problem not a policy problem.

Practice changed! The horror! They won’t find out till the end of the day, when they actually need to know rather than in 2nd period algebra. Your examples don’t even make sense.

My kids are in high school, and we have friends at privates where phones are banned all day.

Wait til you have to drop off medication for your kid but they never are given the message.

And your kid doesn't know they need medication, so they can't ask about it? Or, you can't wait for them to call your child to the office to ensure they're aware?

Ask who? How? If they had their phone they could ask me if I dropped it off and where but how do you want this to happen now that ppl like you took this away.

And you think high schools call kids to the offuce? Hahaha you are clueless. Tell me how that works during lunch please - how do they know where my kid is? Who do they call?

This isn’t elementary school. Last time this happened the school told me to text my child!!!

1. Student to teacher: I'm supposed to have medication. My mom is going to drop it off (I know this because she told me so). Can I check at the office to see if she's dropped it off?

2. High schools ABSOLUTELY call students to the office.
3. They know where your kid is by looking at their schedule. If they are at lunch, they can help you locate them - they aren't wandering the building anymore (at least at our high school) and if they are a senior and leave campus for lunch, or you can't locate them, you can leave the medication and the message with the office or they will likely tell you take it to the clinic. The clinic staff will then contact your student.

Just how often are you dropping off medication, anyway? Sounds like a YOU problem, not a lack of phone problem.

PS: For most medications, you can't just give them to your student to carry around with them at school anyway - they need to be held by the nurse in the clinic. So, again, tell me how high schools work.

No you are completely wrong. Again this is telling that you have zero idea how things work for older kids.

DP and this is exactly how it works for my high school kids. The office will not take medication and my kid can’t have it on them. I have to take it directly to the nurse and they log it in and my kid goes to the clinic to take it.

you've never heard of kids self carrying meds in high school? go ask your school nurse. there's a form. it's not rocket science. or maybe your kids shoudl not do it, if they can't handle a cell phone, they are probalby not able to handle meds either. carry on.

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Anonymous wrote:The APEs still have little kids. Wait til their kids get older and get to high school and they realize what they don't know now. Kids in high school can't just whip out their ipad to do what phones can because oops they don't have one. And practice changed but coach can't get a message to them in high school and front office sure isn't going to deliver it.

And also wait til they see this policy won't do anything because all the things they complain about with phones are being done on APS ipads.

I look forward to their outrage, but they will just have themselves to blame.

What are you even talking about? Yes iPads can do a lot of things iPhones can, but it’s way harder to sneak it in the back row of a classroom in your lap.

Most iPads will be school issued and limit social media; if they don’t that’s an IT problem not a policy problem.

Practice changed! The horror! They won’t find out till the end of the day, when they actually need to know rather than in 2nd period algebra. Your examples don’t even make sense.

My kids are in high school, and we have friends at privates where phones are banned all day.

Wait til you have to drop off medication for your kid but they never are given the message.

And your kid doesn't know they need medication, so they can't ask about it? Or, you can't wait for them to call your child to the office to ensure they're aware?

Ask who? How? If they had their phone they could ask me if I dropped it off and where but how do you want this to happen now that ppl like you took this away.

And you think high schools call kids to the offuce? Hahaha you are clueless. Tell me how that works during lunch please - how do they know where my kid is? Who do they call?

This isn’t elementary school. Last time this happened the school told me to text my child!!!

1. Student to teacher: I'm supposed to have medication. My mom is going to drop it off (I know this because she told me so). Can I check at the office to see if she's dropped it off?

2. High schools ABSOLUTELY call students to the office.
3. They know where your kid is by looking at their schedule. If they are at lunch, they can help you locate them - they aren't wandering the building anymore (at least at our high school) and if they are a senior and leave campus for lunch, or you can't locate them, you can leave the medication and the message with the office or they will likely tell you take it to the clinic. The clinic staff will then contact your student.

Just how often are you dropping off medication, anyway? Sounds like a YOU problem, not a lack of phone problem.

except how would my kid know I'm dropping it off if we can't communicate via text anymore? And do I really want my head leaving class to go check every hour?

That's nice that at YOUR HS they don't wander the building at lunch, they do at ours. And which staff member has time to go and help me track down my child? And how do you think my child is going to like that?

In the past this was handled easily, efficiently and discreetly via a text. Not anymore thanks to people like you.

You’re really good at creating problems.

If your child is where they are supposed to be, then we’ll have no problem finding her.

I’ve been teaching a long, long time… long enough to remember that we survived just fine without cell phones.

And your concern about whether she’ll “like” being tracked down? Why don’t you, as the parent, prepare her before school so she knows? Tell her when you’ll be there. Communicate appropriately with the main office, the people who are employed to take care of minor, everyday situations like the one that is currently vexing you.

And it will all be okay.

I'm in education. I could not disagree more with this post.

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Anonymous wrote:The APEs still have little kids. Wait til their kids get older and get to high school and they realize what they don't know now. Kids in high school can't just whip out their ipad to do what phones can because oops they don't have one. And practice changed but coach can't get a message to them in high school and front office sure isn't going to deliver it.

And also wait til they see this policy won't do anything because all the things they complain about with phones are being done on APS ipads.

I look forward to their outrage, but they will just have themselves to blame.

What are you even talking about? Yes iPads can do a lot of things iPhones can, but it’s way harder to sneak it in the back row of a classroom in your lap.

Most iPads will be school issued and limit social media; if they don’t that’s an IT problem not a policy problem.

Practice changed! The horror! They won’t find out till the end of the day, when they actually need to know rather than in 2nd period algebra. Your examples don’t even make sense.

My kids are in high school, and we have friends at privates where phones are banned all day.

Wait til you have to drop off medication for your kid but they never are given the message.

And your kid doesn't know they need medication, so they can't ask about it? Or, you can't wait for them to call your child to the office to ensure they're aware?

Ask who? How? If they had their phone they could ask me if I dropped it off and where but how do you want this to happen now that ppl like you took this away.

And you think high schools call kids to the offuce? Hahaha you are clueless. Tell me how that works during lunch please - how do they know where my kid is? Who do they call?

This isn’t elementary school. Last time this happened the school told me to text my child!!!

1. Student to teacher: I'm supposed to have medication. My mom is going to drop it off (I know this because she told me so). Can I check at the office to see if she's dropped it off?

2. High schools ABSOLUTELY call students to the office.
3. They know where your kid is by looking at their schedule. If they are at lunch, they can help you locate them - they aren't wandering the building anymore (at least at our high school) and if they are a senior and leave campus for lunch, or you can't locate them, you can leave the medication and the message with the office or they will likely tell you take it to the clinic. The clinic staff will then contact your student.

Just how often are you dropping off medication, anyway? Sounds like a YOU problem, not a lack of phone problem.

except how would my kid know I'm dropping it off if we can't communicate via text anymore? And do I really want my head leaving class to go check every hour?

That's nice that at YOUR HS they don't wander the building at lunch, they do at ours. And which staff member has time to go and help me track down my child? And how do you think my child is going to like that?

In the past this was handled easily, efficiently and discreetly via a text. Not anymore thanks to people like you.

You might gain a little sympathy if you explained why this is a situation for you. what medication would your child not know is being dropped off for them - that they can't wait a few more hours until the end of the school day for?
How do you think people managed this for decades and decades before pagers even, let alone cell phones?
If your kid already knows before going to school you're dropping something off, why can't they just check at lunch or why can't you give them an idea of when you'll be there?
Surely you're capable of a little thought and problem-solving?

Why do you need to know which med my child gets?

You keep suggesting solutions that it would take a phone to solve. Ohhh the lack of self awareness. My child forgot their meds. So no opportunity for me to let them know ahead of time that I'm dropping it off. Also, can't give them an idea of what time I'll be there anymore because they no longer have their phone during the school day at all.

The problem solver was the phone. Tried this without it, it didn't work. Kid never got their meds, office never found them, or something. All I know is kid said no one contacted them, so they had no way of knowing meds were sitting in the office.

Total cluster. But you don't care.

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Anonymous wrote:The APEs still have little kids. Wait til their kids get older and get to high school and they realize what they don't know now. Kids in high school can't just whip out their ipad to do what phones can because oops they don't have one. And practice changed but coach can't get a message to them in high school and front office sure isn't going to deliver it.

And also wait til they see this policy won't do anything because all the things they complain about with phones are being done on APS ipads.

I look forward to their outrage, but they will just have themselves to blame.

What are you even talking about? Yes iPads can do a lot of things iPhones can, but it’s way harder to sneak it in the back row of a classroom in your lap.

Most iPads will be school issued and limit social media; if they don’t that’s an IT problem not a policy problem.

Practice changed! The horror! They won’t find out till the end of the day, when they actually need to know rather than in 2nd period algebra. Your examples don’t even make sense.

My kids are in high school, and we have friends at privates where phones are banned all day.

Wait til you have to drop off medication for your kid but they never are given the message.

And your kid doesn't know they need medication, so they can't ask about it? Or, you can't wait for them to call your child to the office to ensure they're aware?

Ask who? How? If they had their phone they could ask me if I dropped it off and where but how do you want this to happen now that ppl like you took this away.

And you think high schools call kids to the offuce? Hahaha you are clueless. Tell me how that works during lunch please - how do they know where my kid is? Who do they call?

This isn’t elementary school. Last time this happened the school told me to text my child!!!

1. Student to teacher: I'm supposed to have medication. My mom is going to drop it off (I know this because she told me so). Can I check at the office to see if she's dropped it off?

2. High schools ABSOLUTELY call students to the office.
3. They know where your kid is by looking at their schedule. If they are at lunch, they can help you locate them - they aren't wandering the building anymore (at least at our high school) and if they are a senior and leave campus for lunch, or you can't locate them, you can leave the medication and the message with the office or they will likely tell you take it to the clinic. The clinic staff will then contact your student.

Just how often are you dropping off medication, anyway? Sounds like a YOU problem, not a lack of phone problem.

except how would my kid know I'm dropping it off if we can't communicate via text anymore? And do I really want my head leaving class to go check every hour?

That's nice that at YOUR HS they don't wander the building at lunch, they do at ours. And which staff member has time to go and help me track down my child? And how do you think my child is going to like that?

In the past this was handled easily, efficiently and discreetly via a text. Not anymore thanks to people like you.

You’re really good at creating problems.

If your child is where they are supposed to be, then we’ll have no problem finding her.

I’ve been teaching a long, long time… long enough to remember that we survived just fine without cell phones.

And your concern about whether she’ll “like” being tracked down? Why don’t you, as the parent, prepare her before school so she knows? Tell her when you’ll be there. Communicate appropriately with the main office, the people who are employed to take care of minor, everyday situations like the one that is currently vexing you.

And it will all be okay.

Tell me you don't work in a high school without telling me you don't work in a high school (if you're even a teacher which I really doubt). High school students are not supervised all day at all times. So how are you going to find my kid during one of these times?

And who exactly in the main office is going to track them down? My school's office already sent out an email saying they will not do that. They won't call the classroom either even if they know where they are. Which leaves me with what options exactly?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would a parent need to text a kid everyday? What cants wait until the bell? Come on

that's not what this is about.

why can't a parent who doesn't want their kid to have a cell phone just take away their OWN kid's phone?

I'm so sick of this argument?!
Other kids' cell phones are ALSO the problem! It's not just MY kid or just any one other kid. PHONES period. I don't give a crap whether they belong to my kid or yours. NEITHER should be used in the classroom. And of course, I know YOUR kid never does and isn't the problem. So if your kid doesn't use their phone during school and isn't the problem, the policy shouldn't be a problem for you.

Worry about your OWN kid why don't you?

This is a moronic approach when it comes to SCHOOL. Schools are communities. The actions of some kids impact others. We make choices for the good of the whole community of students. This idea that all of us only have to and should care about ourselves is isolating your kids and depriving them of empathy and concern for the world in which they live.

oh the irony, I bet you were also an antimasker!

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Anonymous wrote:I look forward to asking the front office staff to go find my child the next time I have to pick her up early for a doctor's appointment, since I can't just send her a text that I'm here. I'm sure they'll love having to go find her.

My kids are in an APS middle school and even last year I went to the front desk to have them call my kids out of class. It works just fine and would never occur to me to do otherwise. Are other kids just getting texts from their parents and walking out of class?

Another great example of middle school parents not knowing what they don't know, but legislating rules for high school anyways.

Yes, it works differently in high school. I email the office ahead of time to tell them I will pick up early, then my kids meet me outside.

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Anonymous wrote:I look forward to asking the front office staff to go find my child the next time I have to pick her up early for a doctor's appointment, since I can't just send her a text that I'm here. I'm sure they'll love having to go find her.

Is this a serious comment?

They look up your kids schedule and call the classroom where your kid is. They don’t “go find” anyone.

High schoolers are not always in a classroom. What then?

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Anonymous wrote:The APEs still have little kids. Wait til their kids get older and get to high school and they realize what they don't know now. Kids in high school can't just whip out their ipad to do what phones can because oops they don't have one. And practice changed but coach can't get a message to them in high school and front office sure isn't going to deliver it.

And also wait til they see this policy won't do anything because all the things they complain about with phones are being done on APS ipads.

I look forward to their outrage, but they will just have themselves to blame.

What are you even talking about? Yes iPads can do a lot of things iPhones can, but it’s way harder to sneak it in the back row of a classroom in your lap.

Most iPads will be school issued and limit social media; if they don’t that’s an IT problem not a policy problem.

Practice changed! The horror! They won’t find out till the end of the day, when they actually need to know rather than in 2nd period algebra. Your examples don’t even make sense.

My kids are in high school, and we have friends at privates where phones are banned all day.

Wait til you have to drop off medication for your kid but they never are given the message.

And your kid doesn't know they need medication, so they can't ask about it? Or, you can't wait for them to call your child to the office to ensure they're aware?

Ask who? How? If they had their phone they could ask me if I dropped it off and where but how do you want this to happen now that ppl like you took this away.

And you think high schools call kids to the offuce? Hahaha you are clueless. Tell me how that works during lunch please - how do they know where my kid is? Who do they call?

This isn’t elementary school. Last time this happened the school told me to text my child!!!

1. Student to teacher: I'm supposed to have medication. My mom is going to drop it off (I know this because she told me so). Can I check at the office to see if she's dropped it off?

2. High schools ABSOLUTELY call students to the office.
3. They know where your kid is by looking at their schedule. If they are at lunch, they can help you locate them - they aren't wandering the building anymore (at least at our high school) and if they are a senior and leave campus for lunch, or you can't locate them, you can leave the medication and the message with the office or they will likely tell you take it to the clinic. The clinic staff will then contact your student.

Just how often are you dropping off medication, anyway? Sounds like a YOU problem, not a lack of phone problem.

except how would my kid know I'm dropping it off if we can't communicate via text anymore? And do I really want my head leaving class to go check every hour?

That's nice that at YOUR HS they don't wander the building at lunch, they do at ours. And which staff member has time to go and help me track down my child? And how do you think my child is going to like that?

In the past this was handled easily, efficiently and discreetly via a text. Not anymore thanks to people like you.

You might gain a little sympathy if you explained why this is a situation for you. what medication would your child not know is being dropped off for them - that they can't wait a few more hours until the end of the school day for?
How do you think people managed this for decades and decades before pagers even, let alone cell phones?
If your kid already knows before going to school you're dropping something off, why can't they just check at lunch or why can't you give them an idea of when you'll be there?
Surely you're capable of a little thought and problem-solving?

Why do you need to know which med my child gets?

You keep suggesting solutions that it would take a phone to solve. Ohhh the lack of self awareness. My child forgot their meds. So no opportunity for me to let them know ahead of time that I'm dropping it off. Also, can't give them an idea of what time I'll be there anymore because they no longer have their phone during the school day at all.

The problem solver was the phone. Tried this without it, it didn't work. Kid never got their meds, office never found them, or something. All I know is kid said no one contacted them, so they had no way of knowing meds were sitting in the office.

Total cluster. But you don't care.

The fact your child seems to routinely forget their meds that has made this such a big issue, speaks volumes.

But it’s really quite simple. Once they realize they forgot their meds they check in the office every other period or so - about 4 times max. Yes it’s a bit of inconvenience for them, but it’s a learning opportunity to STOP FORGETTING TO BRING IT.

Honestly, if they forgot them more than twice, it would live with the nurse and they would have to stop at nurses office when they need it. Don’t you as the mom have better things to do than act as their Instacart driver, like a job or something?

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This is insane. We aren’t running an entire school system to cater to one individual child forgetting their meds. I get it’s a big deal. For you and your child. And I care. But not at the expense of every child in the school. The harms of phone use on teenage brains is well documented by scientists. As a parent I see it. I want my child to be able to just go to school and attend to school without the distraction that phones bring to the community. The teachers agree with the scientists. It’s insane how you needy parents want to wreck this one good thing that APS is doing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a parent need to text a kid everyday? What cants wait until the bell? Come on

that's not what this is about.

why can't a parent who doesn't want their kid to have a cell phone just take away their OWN kid's phone?

I'm so sick of this argument?!
Other kids' cell phones are ALSO the problem! It's not just MY kid or just any one other kid. PHONES period. I don't give a crap whether they belong to my kid or yours. NEITHER should be used in the classroom. And of course, I know YOUR kid never does and isn't the problem. So if your kid doesn't use their phone during school and isn't the problem, the policy shouldn't be a problem for you.

Worry about your OWN kid why don't you?

This is a moronic approach when it comes to SCHOOL. Schools are communities. The actions of some kids impact others. We make choices for the good of the whole community of students. This idea that all of us only have to and should care about ourselves is isolating your kids and depriving them of empathy and concern for the world in which they live.

oh the irony, I bet you were also an antimasker!

No ma’am. I was a teacher who masked and vaccinated and was working in the school building when most of you were still comfy in your work from home office setup. And I’m the one dealing with the cell phone problems each and every day in a classroom, also unlike you. The ban is the best things that happened to my classroom in a decade. It is truly for the best. All you neurotic parents who think you need to be in contact with your kids 24/7 are a problem. Seek help that doesn’t drag down your kids’ ability to function and thrive in any setting without you.

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Anonymous wrote:I look forward to asking the front office staff to go find my child the next time I have to pick her up early for a doctor's appointment, since I can't just send her a text that I'm here. I'm sure they'll love having to go find her.

Is this a serious comment?

They look up your kids schedule and call the classroom where your kid is. They don’t “go find” anyone.

High schoolers are not always in a classroom. What then?

Oh my god. Then when they get back from talking to their friend in the bathroom we say “you have early dismissal, go.” Or we tell the office “oh Johnny is skipping today. Page him in the school.” And they make a schoolwide announcement for your “not in a classroom” kid to get his butt to the office to leave.

[Anonymous]

My child has forgotten their meds before (yay ADHD). I go to school to bring the meds. The office calls them while I wait. Then I give my kid the meds (I don't feel comfortable just leaving them with the office). They never seem to have a problem finding my kid.

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Anonymous wrote:The APEs still have little kids. Wait til their kids get older and get to high school and they realize what they don't know now. Kids in high school can't just whip out their ipad to do what phones can because oops they don't have one. And practice changed but coach can't get a message to them in high school and front office sure isn't going to deliver it.

And also wait til they see this policy won't do anything because all the things they complain about with phones are being done on APS ipads.

I look forward to their outrage, but they will just have themselves to blame.

What are you even talking about? Yes iPads can do a lot of things iPhones can, but it’s way harder to sneak it in the back row of a classroom in your lap.

Most iPads will be school issued and limit social media; if they don’t that’s an IT problem not a policy problem.

Practice changed! The horror! They won’t find out till the end of the day, when they actually need to know rather than in 2nd period algebra. Your examples don’t even make sense.

My kids are in high school, and we have friends at privates where phones are banned all day.

Wait til you have to drop off medication for your kid but they never are given the message.

And your kid doesn't know they need medication, so they can't ask about it? Or, you can't wait for them to call your child to the office to ensure they're aware?

Ask who? How? If they had their phone they could ask me if I dropped it off and where but how do you want this to happen now that ppl like you took this away.

And you think high schools call kids to the offuce? Hahaha you are clueless. Tell me how that works during lunch please - how do they know where my kid is? Who do they call?

This isn’t elementary school. Last time this happened the school told me to text my child!!!

1. Student to teacher: I'm supposed to have medication. My mom is going to drop it off (I know this because she told me so). Can I check at the office to see if she's dropped it off?

2. High schools ABSOLUTELY call students to the office.
3. They know where your kid is by looking at their schedule. If they are at lunch, they can help you locate them - they aren't wandering the building anymore (at least at our high school) and if they are a senior and leave campus for lunch, or you can't locate them, you can leave the medication and the message with the office or they will likely tell you take it to the clinic. The clinic staff will then contact your student.

Just how often are you dropping off medication, anyway? Sounds like a YOU problem, not a lack of phone problem.

PS: For most medications, you can't just give them to your student to carry around with them at school anyway - they need to be held by the nurse in the clinic. So, again, tell me how high schools work.

No you are completely wrong. Again this is telling that you have zero idea how things work for older kids.

DP and this is exactly how it works for my high school kids. The office will not take medication and my kid can’t have it on them. I have to take it directly to the nurse and they log it in and my kid goes to the clinic to take it.

you've never heard of kids self carrying meds in high school? go ask your school nurse. there's a form. it's not rocket science. or maybe your kids shoudl not do it, if they can't handle a cell phone, they are probalby not able to handle meds either. carry on.

If your kid is forgetting their medicine that often they are showing they lack responsibility and shouldn’t be carrying it around school.

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Anonymous wrote:The APEs still have little kids. Wait til their kids get older and get to high school and they realize what they don't know now. Kids in high school can't just whip out their ipad to do what phones can because oops they don't have one. And practice changed but coach can't get a message to them in high school and front office sure isn't going to deliver it.

And also wait til they see this policy won't do anything because all the things they complain about with phones are being done on APS ipads.

I look forward to their outrage, but they will just have themselves to blame.

What are you even talking about? Yes iPads can do a lot of things iPhones can, but it’s way harder to sneak it in the back row of a classroom in your lap.

Most iPads will be school issued and limit social media; if they don’t that’s an IT problem not a policy problem.

Practice changed! The horror! They won’t find out till the end of the day, when they actually need to know rather than in 2nd period algebra. Your examples don’t even make sense.

My kids are in high school, and we have friends at privates where phones are banned all day.

Wait til you have to drop off medication for your kid but they never are given the message.

And your kid doesn't know they need medication, so they can't ask about it? Or, you can't wait for them to call your child to the office to ensure they're aware?

Ask who? How? If they had their phone they could ask me if I dropped it off and where but how do you want this to happen now that ppl like you took this away.

And you think high schools call kids to the offuce? Hahaha you are clueless. Tell me how that works during lunch please - how do they know where my kid is? Who do they call?

This isn’t elementary school. Last time this happened the school told me to text my child!!!

1. Student to teacher: I'm supposed to have medication. My mom is going to drop it off (I know this because she told me so). Can I check at the office to see if she's dropped it off?

2. High schools ABSOLUTELY call students to the office.
3. They know where your kid is by looking at their schedule. If they are at lunch, they can help you locate them - they aren't wandering the building anymore (at least at our high school) and if they are a senior and leave campus for lunch, or you can't locate them, you can leave the medication and the message with the office or they will likely tell you take it to the clinic. The clinic staff will then contact your student.

Just how often are you dropping off medication, anyway? Sounds like a YOU problem, not a lack of phone problem.

except how would my kid know I'm dropping it off if we can't communicate via text anymore? And do I really want my head leaving class to go check every hour?

That's nice that at YOUR HS they don't wander the building at lunch, they do at ours. And which staff member has time to go and help me track down my child? And how do you think my child is going to like that?

In the past this was handled easily, efficiently and discreetly via a text. Not anymore thanks to people like you.

You’re really good at creating problems.

If your child is where they are supposed to be, then we’ll have no problem finding her.

I’ve been teaching a long, long time… long enough to remember that we survived just fine without cell phones.

And your concern about whether she’ll “like” being tracked down? Why don’t you, as the parent, prepare her before school so she knows? Tell her when you’ll be there. Communicate appropriately with the main office, the people who are employed to take care of minor, everyday situations like the one that is currently vexing you.

And it will all be okay.

I'm in education. I could not disagree more with this post.

“I’m in education” is code for you’re not working directly with students.

[Anonymous]

School board did something right for once.

The stats in this article say it all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/12/20/schools-ban-cellphones-virginia-impact/