New cell phone policy for 2026-2027

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved.

We have actually DE-evolved with more digitalization.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

That last period teacher probably hated you if you were constantly emailing her about changes in dismissal plans. Are you that disorganized that dismissal plans changed often enough to need to constantly email a teacher about them?

Thank God most parents have much better executive function; can you imagine if that poor teacher had to communicate dismissal plans to 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 kids in her class?

My child had a private lesson after school that sometimes got cancelled last minute from the instructor. It required a change from kiss n ride to the bus then. It has nothing to do with my executive function you disgusting POS.

Wow, get help.

Someone who insults someone who has a different opinion than you needs serious help.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

That last period teacher probably hated you if you were constantly emailing her about changes in dismissal plans. Are you that disorganized that dismissal plans changed often enough to need to constantly email a teacher about them?

Thank God most parents have much better executive function; can you imagine if that poor teacher had to communicate dismissal plans to 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 kids in her class?

My child had a private lesson after school that sometimes got cancelled last minute from the instructor. It required a change from kiss n ride to the bus then. It has nothing to do with my executive function you disgusting POS.

Wow, get help.

Get help for what? Someone literally insulted my executive functioning for something beyond my control and for what the school told me to do? Explain how you would have handled it.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

It sounds like your kid didn't do private lessons after school which sometimes get cancelled. It was easy for your kid to figure it out becuase the school told her it was cancelled. Apples to oranges.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

You still could have picked your child up and just driven him/her home instead of taking him/her to his/her lesson. The school doesn't need to be involved at all in knowing if your kid is going to a private lesson after-school. Why would they care?

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

You text your kid, and kid turns on their phone at 3:00 and sees it. They don't need to see it at noon.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

You text your kid, and kid turns on their phone at 3:00 and sees it. They don't need to see it at noon.

I have to constantly check my cellphone as part of my job. It’s time we accepted that kids’ use of Snapchat and instagram is part of training for their future jobs. We’re expected to be able to toggle between emails and texts and paying attention in meetings at work. When kids are texting and playing games during a lecture at school they’re learning essential skills that they’ll have to be able to apply in the real world. Paying attention to a class without any distractions actually probably harms their ability to develop skills at multitasking.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

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I would’ve just picked my kid up anyway.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

You text your kid, and kid turns on their phone at 3:00 and sees it. They don't need to see it at noon.

By the time they see it they would have missed the bus. And my child actually didn’t get a phone until a few months in during 8th grade. So no, I don’t actually have an addicted to a phone kid because we waited until 8th and had strict rules.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

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I would’ve just picked my kid up anyway.

Sure. You’d waste your time and gas money and just be able to leave work even if you didn’t have to. Ok. All because of a new rule that Johnny can’t check his own texts at lunch.

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Blanket rules like this just don’t work. There always has to be some exceptions.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

That last period teacher probably hated you if you were constantly emailing her about changes in dismissal plans. Are you that disorganized that dismissal plans changed often enough to need to constantly email a teacher about them?

Thank God most parents have much better executive function; can you imagine if that poor teacher had to communicate dismissal plans to 10, 15, 20, 25, or 30 kids in her class?

My child had a private lesson after school that sometimes got cancelled last minute from the instructor. It required a change from kiss n ride to the bus then. It has nothing to do with my executive function you disgusting POS.

Wow, get help.

Get help for what? Someone literally insulted my executive functioning for something beyond my control and for what the school told me to do? Explain how you would have handled it.

DP. Get help for calling people POS and telling them to eff off because they suggest other possible solutions.
Also, your kid can check their phone when they are dismissed at the end of the school day before going to kiss n ride or the bus. Seriously you are freaking out about nothing.

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

Did an insecure parent or phone dependent-student start this gripe thread? Hard to know the difference really.

No, a parent with common sense. Kids sometimes need to text their parents and vice versa for whatever reason. It’s not a crime.

Somehow in the way back times, people survived high school without the ability to text parents and vice versa. How ever did we all survive????

The world wasn’t digitized then. We have evolved. Sometimes we need to send a quick text about after school plans to our child and it’s super easy and convenient and you know they will get the message. When my child was in middle school I was constantly emailing his last period teacher about changes in dismissal plans and it was nerve wracking not knowing if she would check the message or remember to give it. Now that we have texting we should be able to use it to communicate with our kids. Lunch is the perfect time for them to read it. I really donut see the need to take them away at lunch. The cafeteria is probably quieter too.

This sounds like a YOU problem. I've NEVER had to contact anyone at either of my children's schools about last minute changes to their dismissal plans. There have been a few time when my middle schooler has had an after school program cancelled and she came home on the bus instead of needing to be picked up, but she texted me at the end of the day and used her key to let herself in when she got home.

So in that case the school communicated to your child that the after school program got cancelled. My child didn’t know the after school private lesson got cancelled because the instructor contacted me to cancel. I would then call the school to tell them but they told me to email the last period teacher. That was the only way my child knew to catch the bus home isntead. Explain to me how else this could have been done.

You text your kid, and kid turns on their phone at 3:00 and sees it. They don't need to see it at noon.

By the time they see it they would have missed the bus. And my child actually didn’t get a phone until a few months in during 8th grade. So no, I don’t actually have an addicted to a phone kid because we waited until 8th and had strict rules.

You don’t know if they wouldn’t see the text in time for the bus.
Heck, my kids don’t always see stuff even now when they are checking their phones during the day.

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Anonymous wrote:Blanket rules like this just don’t work. There always has to be some exceptions.

Blanket rules absolutely can work.
If there is something SO important and urgent that your child MUST be able to have their cell phone, then there is something else going on. Like if their parent is dying in a hospital. Then the kid probably wouldn’t be at school anyway.
There just aren’t many situations that warrant urgent communication like that and when they do come up there are other solutions.