What 504 accommodations for a middle schooler who plays games on Ipad during school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle school teacher here. Here are the accommodations I most commonly see in this situation:

Teacher check-ins.
Remind student to take their time.
Check work for completion and accuracy.
Let student choose between several teacher-approved activities if they finish early.
Teacher holds on to tech device when not being actively used in class.

Sometimes tech time is put into accommodations as a reward if the work has been completed to the teacher’s satisfaction.

Thank you! This is really helpful.

For this to work there has to be parents who will enforce it. “Teacher holds on to tech device when not being actively used in class.” Students will argue or not give up their device because other students aren’t having to give up their devices. The teacher can’t spend half the class arguing with the student to hand over his or her device. Administrators don’t approve of applying consequences like detention or being sent to the office. So there isn’t much a teacher can do.

You as a parent should look at on the history of the device and be ready and able to enforce a consequence if the teacher says your child was playing games or you find evidence of that.

In my experience, it takes parents and teachers working together- which can be harder than it sounds. We will always follow up with losing screen time at home if my kid is playing in his iPad at school or doesn’t complete work satisfactorily. It works, as long as we know to impose the consequence.

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Yes, teachers and parents need to be a team, and follow through at home is going to make this much more effective.

Your kid is old enough that you should talk to them about any accommodations you are considering, ask if they have any other suggestions, and talk about rewards or consequences at home. Hopefully they will have more buy in that way, because as a previous poster noted, you don’t want your kid and the teacher to get into battles over the iPad. Start out assuming your child will cooperate (like asking the kid to turn in the iPad), but if that doesn’t work and rewards/consequences at home are not effective, you can always change the 504 to try something else (like forbidding any iPad access and only allowing work on paper, which could limit your kid in some classes).

[Anonymous]

Devices in school are absolutely mentally deranged. Whoever thought of it needs to be fired. Seriously.