New Policy: APS school board adopts all-day ban on student phone use, makes one exception

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'll never get my senior to go back to school now haha. Not that it really matters.

My senior is very grateful for the ability to leave at lunch. They used to go out maybe once or twice a week, but after yesterday's lunch being dominated by someone yelling on a microphone all period, staying at school for lunch to socialize with friends doesn't seem so enjoyable anymore.

The anti-cell phone crazies have driven kids off campus with their cell phone ban. Well done crazy people.

What does someone yelling on a microphone during lunch have to do with the cell phone ban? It's the yeller on the microphone that drove them out, not the cell phone ban.

omg, this made my day. sure, you don't see the connection.

Based on that one comment, no. The person did not originally explain why someone was yelling into a microphone all through lunch.

I can’t believe they were on the mic the whole time, that’s just a kid exaggerating.

Notice PP still refuses to the name the school, just said “other kids corroborated “

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This should be interesting now that phone use is being restricted in the N Arlington high schools, too (& not just at Wakefield). I imagine those parents will have something to say.

And next year, will all schools use the yondr pouches? Or none?

Why? All the N Arlington parents I know support the ban.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This should be interesting now that phone use is being restricted in the N Arlington high schools, too (& not just at Wakefield). I imagine those parents will have something to say.

And next year, will all schools use the yondr pouches? Or none?

Why? All the N Arlington parents I know support the ban.

Let me guess, you're either in APE or you don't have high school kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This should be interesting now that phone use is being restricted in the N Arlington high schools, too (& not just at Wakefield). I imagine those parents will have something to say.

And next year, will all schools use the yondr pouches? Or none?

Why? All the N Arlington parents I know support the ban.

Let me guess, you're either in APE or you don't have high school kids.

Not in APE, and have a freshman and a junior. They understand how corrosive social media is, and they see their friends in front of them in their classes so no FOMO from not having the phone (and none of their friends have their phones to boot).

What exactly are you high school kids telling you is the great travesty of the phone ban?? I honestly don’t understand. Who are they trying to get in touch with that can’t wait till end of day? Are all their books locked on their phone?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my kid how it went. He’s at WL. I reminded him that it’s the policy and he said “I never used my phone during the day anyway. The teachers are just being bigger d*cks about it now and standing in the hallway yelling at us to put phones away.”

None of this means he’s paying more attention - he’s on his laptop listening to Spotify and watching YouTube.

So you’ve failed as a parent and you’re announcing it? What an odd choice.

What exactly am I supposed to do about it when he’s at school? I have told the teachers they can remove his computer or give him demerits or whatever, but they don’t. It’s their classroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This should be interesting now that phone use is being restricted in the N Arlington high schools, too (& not just at Wakefield). I imagine those parents will have something to say.

And next year, will all schools use the yondr pouches? Or none?

Why? All the N Arlington parents I know support the ban.

Yorktown parent here - none of my friends support the ban

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This should be interesting now that phone use is being restricted in the N Arlington high schools, too (& not just at Wakefield). I imagine those parents will have something to say.

And next year, will all schools use the yondr pouches? Or none?

Why? All the N Arlington parents I know support the ban.

Yorktown parent here - none of my friends support the ban

WL parent in N Arlington here and I don’t support the ban and neither do many of the parents I know.

[Anonymous]

22201 and I think it should be up to the teacher’s discretion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my kid how it went. He’s at WL. I reminded him that it’s the policy and he said “I never used my phone during the day anyway. The teachers are just being bigger d*cks about it now and standing in the hallway yelling at us to put phones away.”

None of this means he’s paying more attention - he’s on his laptop listening to Spotify and watching YouTube.

So you’ve failed as a parent and you’re announcing it? What an odd choice.

What exactly am I supposed to do about it when he’s at school? I have told the teachers they can remove his computer or give him demerits or whatever, but they don’t. It’s their classroom.

I would tell them he needs to do his homework on paper and not have a school provided laptop. I would make him change the password and only I would have it, so he can’t use it at school and only can use electronics under my supervision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I asked my kid how it went. He’s at WL. I reminded him that it’s the policy and he said “I never used my phone during the day anyway. The teachers are just being bigger d*cks about it now and standing in the hallway yelling at us to put phones away.”

None of this means he’s paying more attention - he’s on his laptop listening to Spotify and watching YouTube.

The way you commented this not even realizing how much it reveals what a jerk of a kid you’ve raised in multiple ways- incredible.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that one of the most tech centric discussion groups are largely in support of banning cell phones in classrooms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631628

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'll never get my senior to go back to school now haha. Not that it really matters.

My senior is very grateful for the ability to leave at lunch. They used to go out maybe once or twice a week, but after yesterday's lunch being dominated by someone yelling on a microphone all period, staying at school for lunch to socialize with friends doesn't seem so enjoyable anymore.

The anti-cell phone crazies have driven kids off campus with their cell phone ban. Well done crazy people.

Right. High schools do have discretion as to when students can use phones and there isn't a good reason why the cafeteria at lunch isn't one of those times.

The old policy - no phones allowed in class (unless with teacher permission), phones allowed in halls and lunch was good.

Now with the all day ban, the crazies won, and the kids lost.

You ARE “the crazies.” Hilarious that you don’t see it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:my child said at elementary school, they aren't even allowed to wear apple watches in class anymore.

And then we have a certain teacher on AEM telling us all to buy our kids analog watches. I am not going out to buy a watch that we do not want or need.

Then apparently your kid doesn’t need a watch. Fine. Not sure why you feel the need to indignantly announce it though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my kid how it went. He’s at WL. I reminded him that it’s the policy and he said “I never used my phone during the day anyway. The teachers are just being bigger d*cks about it now and standing in the hallway yelling at us to put phones away.”

None of this means he’s paying more attention - he’s on his laptop listening to Spotify and watching YouTube.

So you’ve failed as a parent and you’re announcing it? What an odd choice.

What exactly am I supposed to do about it when he’s at school? I have told the teachers they can remove his computer or give him demerits or whatever, but they don’t. It’s their classroom.

JFC. You parent them at home so they follow the rules at school and so they make the right responsible choices when you aren’t watching. Ideally, you start a lot younger than high school.

[Anonymous]

My Yorktown kid reports that they were being told as they walked into school that they had to put their phones away right then and there. So not bell to bell but more like when you are in the building?