Cell phone ban in schools

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope so. It caused so many issues with my freshman last year.

Next year I am going to make it clear that if you have a cell phone/airpods in front of you it will reduce any extra benefits from me. No extended deadlines, no open note. tests, no extra time to finish up assignments the next day. A phone out during an exam will result in a zero. I am done dealing with kids playing games, messaging friends all class, watching videos etc. and then claiming they need more time after doing very crappy incomplete work that doesn’t get submitted.

I appreciate your trying to help students learn but there's a real addiction issue going on with cell phones and this is especially a thing with kids with special needs. Urge you to be more lenient with kids with known social issues as the phone can be self-regulating.

No. Get help for your kid with their “addiction.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope so. It caused so many issues with my freshman last year.

Next year I am going to make it clear that if you have a cell phone/airpods in front of you it will reduce any extra benefits from me. No extended deadlines, no open note. tests, no extra time to finish up assignments the next day. A phone out during an exam will result in a zero. I am done dealing with kids playing games, messaging friends all class, watching videos etc. and then claiming they need more time after doing very crappy incomplete work that doesn’t get submitted.

I appreciate your trying to help students learn but there's a real addiction issue going on with cell phones and this is especially a thing with kids with special needs. Urge you to be more lenient with kids with known social issues as the phone can be self-regulating.

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-parent of a phone-addicted special needs kid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope so. It caused so many issues with my freshman last year.

Next year I am going to make it clear that if you have a cell phone/airpods in front of you it will reduce any extra benefits from me. No extended deadlines, no open note. tests, no extra time to finish up assignments the next day. A phone out during an exam will result in a zero. I am done dealing with kids playing games, messaging friends all class, watching videos etc. and then claiming they need more time after doing very crappy incomplete work that doesn’t get submitted.

I appreciate your trying to help students learn but there's a real addiction issue going on with cell phones and this is especially a thing with kids with special needs. Urge you to be more lenient with kids with known social issues as the phone can be self-regulating.

No. Get help for your kid with their “addiction.”

How about getting rid of your addiction? You keep posting here. Set a good example and self-regulate.

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Anonymous wrote:Can i just throw into the mix that my kid (diabetic) actually does NEED access to the phone all day?

i agree in principle, but then there will be exceptions and that will make enforcement even harder.

I’m all for taking enforcement out of the teachers hands so that they can teach in peace, but just wanted to mention that before you have any kids with phones suspended for the rest of their lives, there may be some exceptions necessary. I just mention it because it’s kind of actually critical for my kid to have the phone attached to his body and accessible. If there was a crackdown and his phone was taken, it actually creates a dangerous situation for him.

Then i worry that this one exception would open the door for all sorts of parent drama…. His phone is actually considered a medical device and i think trying to prevent access would bring up legal issues and ADA issues.

I think any policy would have to have accommodations built in by law, like anything else. In your case, it sounds as though he really needs it so they should give him something to show adults if he is questioned, like a special labeled bag. But I have heard other parents claim their kid “needs” it for anxiety, and schools have managed it by saying, if you need to talk to your parent to manage your anxiety, come to the main office or counselor’s office ANY time and you will be allowed to call. After all, if a child is suffering anxiety in school, isn’t it better for them to also have a trusted adult in the SCHOOL know?

What do you think the school will do with anxiety? Call you to tell you to get your child into treatment. They don't do anything. Be real.

And, this child should not have to keep their phone in a special bag and be identified. You are truely selfish as you cannot be bothered to parent your kids and need the school to.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

1. Yes, it literally is the secretary’s job.
2. It happens rarely, so can easily be handled over the course of a day.
3. The bolded is one of the clearest examples of projection I have ever seen, and that’s saying something.

No it’s not the secretary’s job. Maybe for elementary but not for high school.

My child’s schedule for band and theater regularly changes so they need to call several times per week or more and what happens if the pick up time changes and the office is closed after hours. And, with sports, one off campus that’s another massive coordination. If your kids are in no activities, maybe but we had pay phones growing up. They don’t now and they cannot text or call on school laptops.

So, uninvolved parent done of our kids do need phones to coordinate rides for themselves and your kids whom we drive because you will not.

Calm down. It’s amazing how little confidence you have in your own teenagers ability to survive without a phone during the school day. It’s almost as if you have failed to allow them to develop to be a competent human being unable to handle anything without their parent.

Let me guess you don’t have to drive your kids to school or I am driving them. If plans change I expect a text.

Are you always such a black and white thinker? The point is that cell phones should not be accessible during the school day. If something changes regarding an after school activity, your child can text you after school. If an activity is canceled, I’m sure the child can ask permission to text parent or can ask to use the teacher’s phone or send you an email. No one wants your child stranded at school without a ride.
There are common sense exceptions to every policy

It’s not appropriate to ask to use a teachers phone and they cannot email from mcps computers. Changes are pretty frequent. I have to get my kid from school so if they are late I don’t want to spend 30 plus minutes in line waiting. My child would be stranded a lot.

Convenience trumps education. Got it.
How many parents have a flexible schedule like you and can constantly rush over to the school to pick their child up with all these last minute changes that you are claiming. This is high school we are talking about. Kids can walk or take the school bus or take the metro bus or wait until their parent can pick them up or perhaps get a ride with another kid. Stop acting like your specific situation where you coddle your kid means there can be no cell phone ban for schools. Maybe you can get an anxiety exemption or something

Do you understand there is no bus to some areas? If you are just outside 2 miles in HS, no bus. Do you get that there are multiple danguerous roads, Georgia, University, Conn. Ave where students have been hit with no crossing guards. There is no metro bus to our home. At our school, activities regularly get changed for the day and times. And, often we don't know what time pick up is and its dark. You want your kids walking across a major road, in the dark, during rush hour to a neighborhood with no sidewalks (oh, another thing we don't have sidewalks).

You make it sound so simple. Yes, we took flexible jobs so we could meet our kids needs. Clearly yours is very flexible if you can constantly post here.

But, please, tell me what school bus or metro bus my kids can take. I'd love that.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

Then I would have to parent and I'd rather the county does that for me.

Your kid being on their phone disrupts the educational experience for all kids.

No not really. It just harms the education of kids using their phone who would find something else to distract them if phones weren't an option?.

It actually harms all kids because cell phone use frustrates the teacher and causes them to spend time on cell phone use rather than on more productive activities. Valuable class time is lost every single day because the teacher is wasting time trying to manage kids using their phones. Even if your kid has straight As, they are learning less than private school kids where there is a strict cell phone policy

I have parental controls on my kids phone so all but making emergency calls is disabled during school hours.

Agree this type of policy is unnecessary. Kids who don't value their education will find something else to distract them. I'm more concerned that teachers would have to spend half the class time trying to enforce this policy for 2-3 kids who can't stop watching tiktok instead of teaching the kids who are there to learn.

Parents here are clearly checked out. Kids can go on all the social media, youtube and more on their chromebooks. So, you take away the phone and they just use the computers. Its not about valuing education.

If you value education, advocate for better curriculums, higher level classes, textbooks and more.

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope so. It caused so many issues with my freshman last year.

Next year I am going to make it clear that if you have a cell phone/airpods in front of you it will reduce any extra benefits from me. No extended deadlines, no open note. tests, no extra time to finish up assignments the next day. A phone out during an exam will result in a zero. I am done dealing with kids playing games, messaging friends all class, watching videos etc. and then claiming they need more time after doing very crappy incomplete work that doesn’t get submitted.

I appreciate your trying to help students learn but there's a real addiction issue going on with cell phones and this is especially a thing with kids with special needs. Urge you to be more lenient with kids with known social issues as the phone can be self-regulating.

No. Get help for your kid with their “addiction.”

Glad this is none of your business.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

Then I would have to parent and I'd rather the county does that for me.

Your kid being on their phone disrupts the educational experience for all kids.

No not really. It just harms the education of kids using their phone who would find something else to distract them if phones weren't an option?.

It actually harms all kids because cell phone use frustrates the teacher and causes them to spend time on cell phone use rather than on more productive activities. Valuable class time is lost every single day because the teacher is wasting time trying to manage kids using their phones. Even if your kid has straight As, they are learning less than private school kids where there is a strict cell phone policy

I have parental controls on my kids phone so all but making emergency calls is disabled during school hours.

Agree this type of policy is unnecessary. Kids who don't value their education will find something else to distract them. I'm more concerned that teachers would have to spend half the class time trying to enforce this policy for 2-3 kids who can't stop watching tiktok instead of teaching the kids who are there to learn.

Parents here are clearly checked out. Kids can go on all the social media, youtube and more on their chromebooks. So, you take away the phone and they just use the computers. Its not about valuing education.

If you value education, advocate for better curriculums, higher level classes, textbooks and more.

Nah, it's about valuing education. Kids who are there to learn aren't going to TikTok or even have social media accounts. Most of this stuff is blocked anyway. You really need to find a new hobby.

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Anonymous wrote:God I hope so. It caused so many issues with my freshman last year.

Next year I am going to make it clear that if you have a cell phone/airpods in front of you it will reduce any extra benefits from me. No extended deadlines, no open note. tests, no extra time to finish up assignments the next day. A phone out during an exam will result in a zero. I am done dealing with kids playing games, messaging friends all class, watching videos etc. and then claiming they need more time after doing very crappy incomplete work that doesn’t get submitted.

I appreciate your trying to help students learn but there's a real addiction issue going on with cell phones and this is especially a thing with kids with special needs. Urge you to be more lenient with kids with known social issues as the phone can be self-regulating.

No. Get help for your kid with their “addiction.”

Glad this is none of your business.

Then why did you post about it on a forum? Use your brain. Don’t bring up topics in a discussion forum if you don’t want a discussion about them.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

Then I would have to parent and I'd rather the county does that for me.

Your kid being on their phone disrupts the educational experience for all kids.

No not really. It just harms the education of kids using their phone who would find something else to distract them if phones weren't an option?.

It actually harms all kids because cell phone use frustrates the teacher and causes them to spend time on cell phone use rather than on more productive activities. Valuable class time is lost every single day because the teacher is wasting time trying to manage kids using their phones. Even if your kid has straight As, they are learning less than private school kids where there is a strict cell phone policy

I have parental controls on my kids phone so all but making emergency calls is disabled during school hours.

Agree this type of policy is unnecessary. Kids who don't value their education will find something else to distract them. I'm more concerned that teachers would have to spend half the class time trying to enforce this policy for 2-3 kids who can't stop watching tiktok instead of teaching the kids who are there to learn.

Parents here are clearly checked out. Kids can go on all the social media, youtube and more on their chromebooks. So, you take away the phone and they just use the computers. Its not about valuing education.

If you value education, advocate for better curriculums, higher level classes, textbooks and more.

Nah, it's about valuing education. Kids who are there to learn aren't going to TikTok or even have social media accounts. Most of this stuff is blocked anyway. You really need to find a new hobby.

Its NOT blocked as my child showed me how to get on it. So, keep dreaming. Plenty of work arounds. Spend more time with your kids and stop lecturing others on how to raise theirs.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

Then I would have to parent and I'd rather the county does that for me.

Your kid being on their phone disrupts the educational experience for all kids.

No not really. It just harms the education of kids using their phone who would find something else to distract them if phones weren't an option?.

It actually harms all kids because cell phone use frustrates the teacher and causes them to spend time on cell phone use rather than on more productive activities. Valuable class time is lost every single day because the teacher is wasting time trying to manage kids using their phones. Even if your kid has straight As, they are learning less than private school kids where there is a strict cell phone policy

I have parental controls on my kids phone so all but making emergency calls is disabled during school hours.

Agree this type of policy is unnecessary. Kids who don't value their education will find something else to distract them. I'm more concerned that teachers would have to spend half the class time trying to enforce this policy for 2-3 kids who can't stop watching tiktok instead of teaching the kids who are there to learn.

Parents here are clearly checked out. Kids can go on all the social media, youtube and more on their chromebooks. So, you take away the phone and they just use the computers. Its not about valuing education.

If you value education, advocate for better curriculums, higher level classes, textbooks and more.

Nah, it's about valuing education. Kids who are there to learn aren't going to TikTok or even have social media accounts. Most of this stuff is blocked anyway. You really need to find a new hobby.

Its NOT blocked as my child showed me how to get on it. So, keep dreaming. Plenty of work arounds. Spend more time with your kids and stop lecturing others on how to raise theirs.

You need to stop posting. You’re completely delusional.

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Anonymous wrote:Can i just throw into the mix that my kid (diabetic) actually does NEED access to the phone all day?

i agree in principle, but then there will be exceptions and that will make enforcement even harder.

I’m all for taking enforcement out of the teachers hands so that they can teach in peace, but just wanted to mention that before you have any kids with phones suspended for the rest of their lives, there may be some exceptions necessary. I just mention it because it’s kind of actually critical for my kid to have the phone attached to his body and accessible. If there was a crackdown and his phone was taken, it actually creates a dangerous situation for him.

Then i worry that this one exception would open the door for all sorts of parent drama…. His phone is actually considered a medical device and i think trying to prevent access would bring up legal issues and ADA issues.

I think any policy would have to have accommodations built in by law, like anything else. In your case, it sounds as though he really needs it so they should give him something to show adults if he is questioned, like a special labeled bag. But I have heard other parents claim their kid “needs” it for anxiety, and schools have managed it by saying, if you need to talk to your parent to manage your anxiety, come to the main office or counselor’s office ANY time and you will be allowed to call. After all, if a child is suffering anxiety in school, isn’t it better for them to also have a trusted adult in the SCHOOL know?

What do you think the school will do with anxiety? Call you to tell you to get your child into treatment. They don't do anything. Be real.

And, this child should not have to keep their phone in a special bag and be identified. You are truely selfish as you cannot be bothered to parent your kids and need the school to.

The good newes is this isn't happening. This is just their crazy fantasy.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

Then I would have to parent and I'd rather the county does that for me.

Your kid being on their phone disrupts the educational experience for all kids.

No not really. It just harms the education of kids using their phone who would find something else to distract them if phones weren't an option?.

It actually harms all kids because cell phone use frustrates the teacher and causes them to spend time on cell phone use rather than on more productive activities. Valuable class time is lost every single day because the teacher is wasting time trying to manage kids using their phones. Even if your kid has straight As, they are learning less than private school kids where there is a strict cell phone policy

I have parental controls on my kids phone so all but making emergency calls is disabled during school hours.

Agree this type of policy is unnecessary. Kids who don't value their education will find something else to distract them. I'm more concerned that teachers would have to spend half the class time trying to enforce this policy for 2-3 kids who can't stop watching tiktok instead of teaching the kids who are there to learn.

Parents here are clearly checked out. Kids can go on all the social media, youtube and more on their chromebooks. So, you take away the phone and they just use the computers. Its not about valuing education.

If you value education, advocate for better curriculums, higher level classes, textbooks and more.

Nah, it's about valuing education. Kids who are there to learn aren't going to TikTok or even have social media accounts. Most of this stuff is blocked anyway. You really need to find a new hobby.

Its NOT blocked as my child showed me how to get on it. So, keep dreaming. Plenty of work arounds. Spend more time with your kids and stop lecturing others on how to raise theirs.

You need to stop posting. You’re completely delusional.

You are delusional. You are on social media and a phone complaining about it. Those things are not blocked on MCPS computers or maybe your kids ar too young to figure it out or you are not in MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Can i just throw into the mix that my kid (diabetic) actually does NEED access to the phone all day?

i agree in principle, but then there will be exceptions and that will make enforcement even harder.

I’m all for taking enforcement out of the teachers hands so that they can teach in peace, but just wanted to mention that before you have any kids with phones suspended for the rest of their lives, there may be some exceptions necessary. I just mention it because it’s kind of actually critical for my kid to have the phone attached to his body and accessible. If there was a crackdown and his phone was taken, it actually creates a dangerous situation for him.

Then i worry that this one exception would open the door for all sorts of parent drama…. His phone is actually considered a medical device and i think trying to prevent access would bring up legal issues and ADA issues.

I think any policy would have to have accommodations built in by law, like anything else. In your case, it sounds as though he really needs it so they should give him something to show adults if he is questioned, like a special labeled bag. But I have heard other parents claim their kid “needs” it for anxiety, and schools have managed it by saying, if you need to talk to your parent to manage your anxiety, come to the main office or counselor’s office ANY time and you will be allowed to call. After all, if a child is suffering anxiety in school, isn’t it better for them to also have a trusted adult in the SCHOOL know?

What do you think the school will do with anxiety? Call you to tell you to get your child into treatment. They don't do anything. Be real.

And, this child should not have to keep their phone in a special bag and be identified. You are truely selfish as you cannot be bothered to parent your kids and need the school to.

The good newes is this isn't happening. This is just their crazy fantasy.

Yep these things are not happening.. this is just some posters fantasy

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

Then I would have to parent and I'd rather the county does that for me.

Your kid being on their phone disrupts the educational experience for all kids.

No not really. It just harms the education of kids using their phone who would find something else to distract them if phones weren't an option?.

It actually harms all kids because cell phone use frustrates the teacher and causes them to spend time on cell phone use rather than on more productive activities. Valuable class time is lost every single day because the teacher is wasting time trying to manage kids using their phones. Even if your kid has straight As, they are learning less than private school kids where there is a strict cell phone policy

I have parental controls on my kids phone so all but making emergency calls is disabled during school hours.

Agree this type of policy is unnecessary. Kids who don't value their education will find something else to distract them. I'm more concerned that teachers would have to spend half the class time trying to enforce this policy for 2-3 kids who can't stop watching tiktok instead of teaching the kids who are there to learn.

Parents here are clearly checked out. Kids can go on all the social media, youtube and more on their chromebooks. So, you take away the phone and they just use the computers. Its not about valuing education.

If you value education, advocate for better curriculums, higher level classes, textbooks and more.

Nah, it's about valuing education. Kids who are there to learn aren't going to TikTok or even have social media accounts. Most of this stuff is blocked anyway. You really need to find a new hobby.

Its NOT blocked as my child showed me how to get on it. So, keep dreaming. Plenty of work arounds. Spend more time with your kids and stop lecturing others on how to raise theirs.

You need to stop posting. You’re completely delusional.

You are delusional. You are on social media and a phone complaining about it. Those things are not blocked on MCPS computers or maybe your kids ar too young to figure it out or you are not in MCPS.

Wrong, they're blocked in MCPS as are thousands of innappropriate sites. This is really simple stuff even MCPS can do it.