Storage Pouches for APS High Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so dumb and such a waste of money. WHY is APS spending money on pouches and cutting library aides?

The research is so clear that phones in schools are bad - these pouches work, I am thrilled they are using them next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so dumb and such a waste of money. WHY is APS spending money on pouches and cutting library aides?

The library assistant job was fully funded for next year.

What about benefits for aides?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so dumb and such a waste of money. WHY is APS spending money on pouches and cutting library aides?

The research is so clear that phones in schools are bad - these pouches work, I am thrilled they are using them next year.

You sound brainwashed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's interesting the middle schools will now NOT have them.

I have a kid in high school and the teachers do not enforce the cell phone away policy at all. My guess is this age group is more brazen about blowing off the rules so they are going to give them the pouches and don't want to buy more for middle school kids. But I think middle school kids have the least impulse control when it comes to phones.

MS rules are they have to be in your locker. According to my MS’ers they don’t see hardly any kids hiding them in class.

Keep writing your SB and the principal. The phone-free policy is mandated by VA DOE now, and every email is subject to FOIA and has to be retained. If enough emails accrue to demonstrate that the policy isn't being enforced, it creates a record of evidence that DOE can use. APS knows this, so if the pressure keeps up, they'll have to act, likely by expanding the pouches to MS as well.

You misread. Kids are keeping them in their lockers and not sneaking them into classes. It works fine in MS. No pouch needed. And in high school kids who really want to use them will use them.

The MAGA crowd isn't concerned with the truth - just looking for a gotcha.

+1

F off, APE

[Anonymous]

We need dedicated phone lockers. Away all day. If a phone is seen in school more than once by a student, confiscated and parents can pick it up on the following Monday morning, which means at least one weekend without a phone.

[Anonymous]

So if kids bring in a Nintendo switch or a guitar what happens?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's interesting the middle schools will now NOT have them.

I have a kid in high school and the teachers do not enforce the cell phone away policy at all. My guess is this age group is more brazen about blowing off the rules so they are going to give them the pouches and don't want to buy more for middle school kids. But I think middle school kids have the least impulse control when it comes to phones.

MS rules are they have to be in your locker. According to my MS’ers they don’t see hardly any kids hiding them in class.

Keep writing your SB and the principal. The phone-free policy is mandated by VA DOE now, and every email is subject to FOIA and has to be retained. If enough emails accrue to demonstrate that the policy isn't being enforced, it creates a record of evidence that DOE can use. APS knows this, so if the pressure keeps up, they'll have to act, likely by expanding the pouches to MS as well.

You misread. Kids are keeping them in their lockers and not sneaking them into classes. It works fine in MS. No pouch needed. And in high school kids who really want to use them will use them.

The MAGA crowd isn't concerned with the truth - just looking for a gotcha.

Yeah that hotbed of MAGA, UNESCO.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/08/onlin...ne-school-education/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need dedicated phone lockers. Away all day. If a phone is seen in school more than once by a student, confiscated and parents can pick it up on the following Monday morning, which means at least one weekend without a phone.

Or you can just keep the phone home and stop putting this all on the school to enforce. Be a parent. Set your own controls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's interesting the middle schools will now NOT have them.

I have a kid in high school and the teachers do not enforce the cell phone away policy at all. My guess is this age group is more brazen about blowing off the rules so they are going to give them the pouches and don't want to buy more for middle school kids. But I think middle school kids have the least impulse control when it comes to phones.

MS rules are they have to be in your locker. According to my MS’ers they don’t see hardly any kids hiding them in class.

Keep writing your SB and the principal. The phone-free policy is mandated by VA DOE now, and every email is subject to FOIA and has to be retained. If enough emails accrue to demonstrate that the policy isn't being enforced, it creates a record of evidence that DOE can use. APS knows this, so if the pressure keeps up, they'll have to act, likely by expanding the pouches to MS as well.

You misread. Kids are keeping them in their lockers and not sneaking them into classes. It works fine in MS. No pouch needed. And in high school kids who really want to use them will use them.

My son agrees that he almost never sees them at Gunston

Child at DHMS reports phones out ALL day.

My DHMS student says she doesn't see phones out. Occasional texting by Apple Watch, but no phones.

8th grade boy. Yours? And I believe him because his friends say the same thing when they are at our house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's interesting the middle schools will now NOT have them.

I have a kid in high school and the teachers do not enforce the cell phone away policy at all. My guess is this age group is more brazen about blowing off the rules so they are going to give them the pouches and don't want to buy more for middle school kids. But I think middle school kids have the least impulse control when it comes to phones.

MS rules are they have to be in your locker. According to my MS’ers they don’t see hardly any kids hiding them in class.

Keep writing your SB and the principal. The phone-free policy is mandated by VA DOE now, and every email is subject to FOIA and has to be retained. If enough emails accrue to demonstrate that the policy isn't being enforced, it creates a record of evidence that DOE can use. APS knows this, so if the pressure keeps up, they'll have to act, likely by expanding the pouches to MS as well.

You misread. Kids are keeping them in their lockers and not sneaking them into classes. It works fine in MS. No pouch needed. And in high school kids who really want to use them will use them.

My son agrees that he almost never sees them at Gunston

Child at DHMS reports phones out ALL day.

My DHMS student says she doesn't see phones out. Occasional texting by Apple Watch, but no phones.

8th grade boy. Yours? And I believe him because his friends say the same thing when they are at our house.

6th grade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so dumb and such a waste of money. WHY is APS spending money on pouches and cutting library aides?

The research is so clear that phones in schools are bad - these pouches work, I am thrilled they are using them next year.

You sound brainwashed.

NP. The pouches work, and I’m glad they’re going to be in place at all high schools next year.

[Anonymous]

I’m so confused by the phones away = MAGA person. Not seeing the connection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need dedicated phone lockers. Away all day. If a phone is seen in school more than once by a student, confiscated and parents can pick it up on the following Monday morning, which means at least one weekend without a phone.

Or you can just keep the phone home and stop putting this all on the school to enforce. Be a parent. Set your own controls.

Your child’s disruptive behavior because of their phone addiction is my problem. My kids phone is a brick at school anyways. But all day long there is some kid next to him playing videos which make it hard to focus. And lunch because a zombie apocalypse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m so confused by the phones away = MAGA person. Not seeing the connection.

I think just because it was endorsed by Youngkin and APE. It doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Kids shouldn't be on their phones during the school day.

[Anonymous]

The fact that some people turn every issue into a political discussion is one of my least favorite parts of this current political climate. Get a life. This issue has zero to do with MAGA or not MAGA.