VDOE is banning phones bell-to-bell

[Anonymous]

For all students, phones are banned from bell to bell.

https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/vdoe-says-virginia-schools-should-ban-cell-phones-bell-to-bell/

[Anonymous]

A million threads on this.

[Anonymous]

Yay!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yay!!!!

Woohhooo!!! When do we get it in APS?

[Anonymous]

The VDOE is putting out recommendations, they aren’t banning anything. This is the APS response so far
https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-approves-policy-implementation-procedure-on-student-use-of-personal-devices/?fbclid=IwY2xjawErgltleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbDEB6ghOz2NYT7zdLwHtG56UJPxQbPokWU1Xsb-WfXYC9efRiHTD9tRTg_aem_SO4uUd8uWO5BS0Lk4jPN0Q

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The VDOE is putting out recommendations, they aren’t banning anything. This is the APS response so far
https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-approves-policy-implementation-procedure-on-student-use-of-personal-devices/?fbclid=IwY2xjawErgltleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbDEB6ghOz2NYT7zdLwHtG56UJPxQbPokWU1Xsb-WfXYC9efRiHTD9tRTg_aem_SO4uUd8uWO5BS0Lk4jPN0Q

The VDOE rules will be effective in January. APS will have to revise their rules.

[Anonymous]

It’s just “guidance.” Districts still have to adopt their own plans. Remember when VDOE recommended schools reopen after COVID? Every school system did it differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The VDOE is putting out recommendations, they aren’t banning anything. This is the APS response so far
https://www.apsva.us/post/aps-approves-policy-implementation-procedure-on-student-use-of-personal-devices/?fbclid=IwY2xjawErgltleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbDEB6ghOz2NYT7zdLwHtG56UJPxQbPokWU1Xsb-WfXYC9efRiHTD9tRTg_aem_SO4uUd8uWO5BS0Lk4jPN0Q

The VDOE rules will be effective in January. APS will have to revise their rules.

It’s not a “rule.” Words have meaning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yay!!!!

Woohhooo!!! When do we get it in APS?

You know you can just…take your kid’s phone right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s just “guidance.” Districts still have to adopt their own plans. Remember when VDOE recommended schools reopen after COVID? Every school system did it differently.

The guidance is suggestions for how to implement the rule. The rule is no phones bell to bell, including for high school students.

[Anonymous]

Can they ban YouTube again on school devices?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can they ban YouTube again on school devices?

Better yet, can they stop using school devices at all except in rare occasions. I’m tired of fake internet teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s just “guidance.” Districts still have to adopt their own plans. Remember when VDOE recommended schools reopen after COVID? Every school system did it differently.

The guidance is suggestions for how to implement the rule. The rule is no phones bell to bell, including for high school students.

NP. That’s not what the article says. It refers to “draft guidance” (final one coming next month) and says schools will be “encouraged” to align with the guidance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yay!!!!

Woohhooo!!! When do we get it in APS?

You know you can just…take your kid’s phone right?

It’s not that hard. You can ban your kid’s phone right now. Why did you start multiple threads excited about this. Some of you are oddly obsessed with cell phones, which is nowhere near the top of my worries for my teens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s just “guidance.” Districts still have to adopt their own plans. Remember when VDOE recommended schools reopen after COVID? Every school system did it differently.

The guidance is suggestions for how to implement the rule. The rule is no phones bell to bell, including for high school students.

NP. That’s not what the article says. It refers to “draft guidance” (final one coming next month) and says schools will be “encouraged” to align with the guidance.

When the executive order was announced, they said generally to ban phones in an age and developmentally appropriate way and said they would seek input to find out exactly what that should mean. Now they have listened and this is what they have concluded. Banning phones means banning phones entirely, not just during class time.