New cell phone policy for 2026-2027

[Anonymous]

Now high school kids can’t even use their phone at lunch. Are you kidding me?? How ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now high school kids can’t even use their phone at lunch. Are you kidding me?? How ridiculous.

Great idea. The less they use their devices, the better. It’s a privilege, not a right.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for the kids who sit alone and have no friends in their lunch period. They are the ones who now have to sit there looking around at other kids in groups.

[Anonymous]

I think they are being tested poorly. They should be able to text someone or a parent. These are 15-19 yes even 19 YO.

Worry about the vaping. How is letting them have 20 rushed minutes at lunch hurting anyone. Since Covid FCPS worries about the dumbest crap.
And no I’m not a student. I’m a parent who’d like to be able to send a message to my kid and have them see it at lunch.

[Anonymous]

Should say “treated poorly”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for the kids who sit alone and have no friends in their lunch period. They are the ones who now have to sit there looking around at other kids in groups.

they can read a book. kids do not need to be on phones in school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for the kids who sit alone and have no friends in their lunch period. They are the ones who now have to sit there looking around at other kids in groups.

they can read a book. kids do not need to be on phones in school

So the extroverted social butterflies continue on as usual. But the introverted kids are driven to read a book and get their 30 minutes of their time taken away from them? The kids who have after school responsibilities get screwed?

This was a solution searching for a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for the kids who sit alone and have no friends in their lunch period. They are the ones who now have to sit there looking around at other kids in groups.

Pfffffft.

[Anonymous]

This is state law, not the school system’s decision.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for the kids who sit alone and have no friends in their lunch period. They are the ones who now have to sit there looking around at other kids in groups.

they can read a book. kids do not need to be on phones in school

So the extroverted social butterflies continue on as usual. But the introverted kids are driven to read a book and get their 30 minutes of their time taken away from them? The kids who have after school responsibilities get screwed?

This was a solution searching for a problem.

I’m a little confused here. Are you saying that children who don’t have friends don’t get a 30-minute break? Surely you don’t believe that if you can’t be on your phone then the 30-minute lunch period doesn’t qualify as a break from class?

[Anonymous]

Good. Kids who have trouble socializing should not just be able to bury their nose in a phone as a crutch. Life requires interacting with other humans in real time. We accepted this until the last few years. Parents should not be enabling their children, avoiding social interactions, even if they have a hard time with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good. Kids who have trouble socializing should not just be able to bury their nose in a phone as a crutch. Life requires interacting with other humans in real time. We accepted this until the last few years. Parents should not be enabling their children, avoiding social interactions, even if they have a hard time with it.

And yet kids have always been allowed to bring a book to lunch or recess. Same thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for the kids who sit alone and have no friends in their lunch period. They are the ones who now have to sit there looking around at other kids in groups.

they can read a book. kids do not need to be on phones in school

Reading a book isn’t relaxing. It’s also so effing loud in there no one can concentrate. Give me a break.

[Anonymous]

What is so important during the day that they need their phones. Kids went without phones at school for decades. We all survived.

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Anonymous wrote:Now high school kids can’t even use their phone at lunch. Are you kidding me?? How ridiculous.

Great idea. The less they use their devices, the better. It’s a privilege, not a right.

Their lunch is their free time. Teachers are on their phones all fu$king day at school.

How many times do you people have to be told that TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ARE NOT EQUALS.

Teachers are adults whose frontal lobes are fully developed. Students are children who are still developing the ability to use their brains.

Stop comparing teachers and children.

I see nothing wrong with a student using their phone at lunch to play a game or even text someone. Or to simply let their parent know they have to stay after. This is too much.

But yet they are allowed to use laptops on a daily basis for instruction.

My God, the inability to comprehend the concept of equivalence is mind-boggling.

Instruction is a key word in your statement.