What does “bell to bell phone free school” actually MEAN?

[Anonymous]

My child’s high school has a “away for the day” policy. This means my kid has access to her phone all day at school, she texts me multiple times a day. They are all allowed to use them during lunch.
I looked up executive order 33 on VDOE and the description of the executive order does not match what our high school is doing.
Is everyone else finding this to be true in their high schools? If so, what do we do about it? How do we make them enforce the actual executive order?

[Anonymous]

What school, OP? Why haven't you told her to stop texting you?

Robinson is absolutely strict on it. No phones or airpods outside the 30 minutes of lunch, and then ONLY within the walls of the cafeteria. Use at any other time results in a referral with escalating consequences (detentions, saturday school, parent meetings, phone having to be checked in at the office each morning, etc)

I still write 3-5 referrals per week, but 95% of kids are following rules.

[Anonymous]

McLean is the same the the Robinson description above. Security in the halls between classes to take phones if they are out, teachers take phones, and there are escalating consequences.

[Anonymous]

DD says the teachers don’t even have the same rules (some allow the phones, some don’t). All students are allowed to use them during lunch.
Should I go to administration and ask why they are not enforcing executive order 33?
-OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What school, OP? Why haven't you told her to stop texting you?

Robinson is absolutely strict on it. No phones or airpods outside the 30 minutes of lunch, and then ONLY within the walls of the cafeteria. Use at any other time results in a referral with escalating consequences (detentions, saturday school, parent meetings, phone having to be checked in at the office each morning, etc)

I still write 3-5 referrals per week, but 95% of kids are following rules.

Langley. I have told her to stop but the bigger issue is that they all have access to them during the day, which is a distraction in and of itself. The school should be physically taking the phones at the beginning of the school day and not returning them until the end of the day.
-OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What school, OP? Why haven't you told her to stop texting you?

Robinson is absolutely strict on it. No phones or airpods outside the 30 minutes of lunch, and then ONLY within the walls of the cafeteria. Use at any other time results in a referral with escalating consequences (detentions, saturday school, parent meetings, phone having to be checked in at the office each morning, etc)

I still write 3-5 referrals per week, but 95% of kids are following rules.

do you write them up after 4th time they get caught or do they start 1st offense ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD says the teachers don’t even have the same rules (some allow the phones, some don’t). All students are allowed to use them during lunch.
Should I go to administration and ask why they are not enforcing executive order 33?
-OP

Or...you can take their phone away...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child’s high school has a “away for the day” policy. This means my kid has access to her phone all day at school, she texts me multiple times a day. They are all allowed to use them during lunch.
I looked up executive order 33 on VDOE and the description of the executive order does not match what our high school is doing.
Is everyone else finding this to be true in their high schools? If so, what do we do about it? How do we make them enforce the actual executive order?

The executive order only states they will come up with a plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school, OP? Why haven't you told her to stop texting you?

Robinson is absolutely strict on it. No phones or airpods outside the 30 minutes of lunch, and then ONLY within the walls of the cafeteria. Use at any other time results in a referral with escalating consequences (detentions, saturday school, parent meetings, phone having to be checked in at the office each morning, etc)

I still write 3-5 referrals per week, but 95% of kids are following rules.

Langley. I have told her to stop but the bigger issue is that they all have access to them during the day, which is a distraction in and of itself. The school should be physically taking the phones at the beginning of the school day and not returning them until the end of the day.
-OP

I knew it was going to be Langley, LOL!

[Anonymous]

This sounds very much like a parenting issue. Why is your child texting you multiple times a day? What is that all about? Why can't you tell her "keep your phone in your locker all day, you don't need it in class. You can text me at lunch or at dismissal."? Why can't you be an actual parent and have rules and consequences? Why are you trying to get the school to parent your child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD says the teachers don’t even have the same rules (some allow the phones, some don’t). All students are allowed to use them during lunch.
Should I go to administration and ask why they are not enforcing executive order 33?
-OP

No, you should take your daughter's phone away since she can't use it responsibly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school, OP? Why haven't you told her to stop texting you?

Robinson is absolutely strict on it. No phones or airpods outside the 30 minutes of lunch, and then ONLY within the walls of the cafeteria. Use at any other time results in a referral with escalating consequences (detentions, saturday school, parent meetings, phone having to be checked in at the office each morning, etc)

I still write 3-5 referrals per week, but 95% of kids are following rules.

do you write them up after 4th time they get caught or do they start 1st offense ?

Referral every time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD says the teachers don’t even have the same rules (some allow the phones, some don’t). All students are allowed to use them during lunch.
Should I go to administration and ask why they are not enforcing executive order 33?
-OP

No, you should take your daughter's phone away since she can't use it responsibly.

Yep, it starts at home.
Parents want to jump to fighting with schools before they try parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds very much like a parenting issue. Why is your child texting you multiple times a day? What is that all about? Why can't you tell her "keep your phone in your locker all day, you don't need it in class. You can text me at lunch or at dismissal."? Why can't you be an actual parent and have rules and consequences? Why are you trying to get the school to parent your child?

Locker!!?? There are schools using lockers? Our school didn't have enough, so they literally removed a whole bunch of them

[Anonymous]

First of all, there are no lockers at Langley.
Second of all, we are the most restrictive parents I know as far as technology goes! My daughter was the very last of her friends to get a phone at 13. She has zero social media and a one hour YouTube limit per day. My 11-year-old has no device. Please don’t start lecturing me about my parenting! My daughter thinks I’m a complete Nazi when it comes to regulating her phone use. She has to plug it in at 8pm every night well all her friends are up until midnight texting each other, she’s never allowed to use two sources of media at the same time (cannot watch TV while having her phone next to her). We have a lot more policies to control screen time that I will not continue to list, but trust me the parenting is not the problem. I would like schools to actually do their part since half of her day is away from me. I can tell her to put it away and don’t use it all I want, but when EVERY kid in the entire school is using their devices various times throughout the day and many teachers allow them to use them in class, it no longer seems like a “parenting issue” now does it?
—OP