Yondr pouch pilot program at some MS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lot of folks in here saying “my kid will just keep it in their bag because they use it correctly” and they gonna be in for a world of shock when they’re called into to get their kids phone in week 2 because it was out during the day.


Go ahead and resist, you’ll see soon enough your kid, who is not like the others, is indeed like the others.


Just setting yourselves up for frustrating trips to the school during the day to meet with admin, fruitless arguments, and the “shocking” realization that teenagers lie.



PS. Teachers need their phones because every aspect of the counties online infrastructure is now tethered to two factor authentication. I can’t even go to another room without my phone because very platforms randomly require authentication via phone authenticator.

Won't the students also need their phones for 2 factor authentication for all the FCPS logins?

[Anonymous]

^ no? Their access doesn’t require 2 factor authentication because they don’t have access to any other student’s information, data, etc that requires enhanced security the way we do. C’mon guys. Turn your thinking caps on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how the HS version of this with “storage units located in the classroom” is supposed to work. So kids are wasting time at the beginning and end of class to deal with the phones? Who stops a kid from taking someone else’s phone either by mistake or on purpose? A kid who has to be dismissed early for any reason needs to potentially disrupt the entire class to retrieve their phone?

Maybe it’s a great program. But typical of FCPS it’s being implemented in a way that leaves more questions than answers.

You walk in and stick your phone in the slot before you take your seat. Every kid should be in their seat before the bell. It is not some elaborate process nor will it take an inordinate amount of time-unless your kid is the one who sits down, gets on their phone, thinks the rules don’t apply to them, and is the reason it has come to this. Kids will grab their phones on the way out. It will take seconds, just like grabbing a handout on your way out the door.

My now college aged kid had to do this as a HS freshman. It was enough of a mess that most teachers abandoned the practice pretty quickly. If the pilot program schools can make it work smoothly that’s great, but the lack of specific information is not inspiring confidence than anyone actually has a workable plan beyond putting a storage unit in each room and telling teachers and students to figure it out. That hasn’t worked out well in the past.

My kids have both had teachers that used the hanging shoe rack thing for phones. It was indeed as simple as that - phones in on the way in, out on the way out.

[Anonymous]

I think its great for HS and MS. I wish HS required them to be locked away all day long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how the HS version of this with “storage units located in the classroom” is supposed to work. So kids are wasting time at the beginning and end of class to deal with the phones? Who stops a kid from taking someone else’s phone either by mistake or on purpose? A kid who has to be dismissed early for any reason needs to potentially disrupt the entire class to retrieve their phone?

Maybe it’s a great program. But typical of FCPS it’s being implemented in a way that leaves more questions than answers.

You walk in and stick your phone in the slot before you take your seat. Every kid should be in their seat before the bell. It is not some elaborate process nor will it take an inordinate amount of time-unless your kid is the one who sits down, gets on their phone, thinks the rules don’t apply to them, and is the reason it has come to this. Kids will grab their phones on the way out. It will take seconds, just like grabbing a handout on your way out the door.

My now college aged kid had to do this as a HS freshman. It was enough of a mess that most teachers abandoned the practice pretty quickly. If the pilot program schools can make it work smoothly that’s great, but the lack of specific information is not inspiring confidence than anyone actually has a workable plan beyond putting a storage unit in each room and telling teachers and students to figure it out. That hasn’t worked out well in the past.

My kids have both had teachers that used the hanging shoe rack thing for phones. It was indeed as simple as that - phones in on the way in, out on the way out.

It’s really not that simple because the teacher down the hall does something different so they want to keep their phone and *there is no consequence if they do*. Please stop telling teachers what THEY deal with every single day .

[Anonymous]

ISSUE WITH THE NEW CELL PHONE POLICY
1ST. We pay the phone bill and we should be able to text or call them when we want to.
2nd. what if our house is on fire and we need to tell our kids ?
3rd. What if they are not felling well and need to go home early. (so many kids even high schoolers, don't know how to use the nurse phone or a phone number_
4th. How about ELL kids who don't speak English and use the phone as a translator?
My son has a friend that translate everything for him in class.

5th. What if something happens and we need to tell our kids?
6. How do we tell teachers they can't be on the phone? If a teacher is on her or his phone can we fire a report to fire them?
7.What if they need to st
8. what if the phone get stolen?
9- what if the school catches fire and they can't get the phone?
10. what if they need for assigment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how the HS version of this with “storage units located in the classroom” is supposed to work. So kids are wasting time at the beginning and end of class to deal with the phones? Who stops a kid from taking someone else’s phone either by mistake or on purpose? A kid who has to be dismissed early for any reason needs to potentially disrupt the entire class to retrieve their phone?

Maybe it’s a great program. But typical of FCPS it’s being implemented in a way that leaves more questions than answers.

You walk in and stick your phone in the slot before you take your seat. Every kid should be in their seat before the bell. It is not some elaborate process nor will it take an inordinate amount of time-unless your kid is the one who sits down, gets on their phone, thinks the rules don’t apply to them, and is the reason it has come to this. Kids will grab their phones on the way out. It will take seconds, just like grabbing a handout on your way out the door.

My now college aged kid had to do this as a HS freshman. It was enough of a mess that most teachers abandoned the practice pretty quickly. If the pilot program schools can make it work smoothly that’s great, but the lack of specific information is not inspiring confidence than anyone actually has a workable plan beyond putting a storage unit in each room and telling teachers and students to figure it out. That hasn’t worked out well in the past.

My kids have both had teachers that used the hanging shoe rack thing for phones. It was indeed as simple as that - phones in on the way in, out on the way out.

It’s really not that simple because the teacher down the hall does something different so they want to keep their phone and *there is no consequence if they do*. Please stop telling teachers what THEY deal with every single day .

DP. This is what our HS is doing this fall. Every teacher will have a hanging shoe rack for phones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think its great for HS and MS. I wish HS required them to be locked away all day long.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how the HS version of this with “storage units located in the classroom” is supposed to work. So kids are wasting time at the beginning and end of class to deal with the phones? Who stops a kid from taking someone else’s phone either by mistake or on purpose? A kid who has to be dismissed early for any reason needs to potentially disrupt the entire class to retrieve their phone?

Maybe it’s a great program. But typical of FCPS it’s being implemented in a way that leaves more questions than answers.

You walk in and stick your phone in the slot before you take your seat. Every kid should be in their seat before the bell. It is not some elaborate process nor will it take an inordinate amount of time-unless your kid is the one who sits down, gets on their phone, thinks the rules don’t apply to them, and is the reason it has come to this. Kids will grab their phones on the way out. It will take seconds, just like grabbing a handout on your way out the door.

My now college aged kid had to do this as a HS freshman. It was enough of a mess that most teachers abandoned the practice pretty quickly. If the pilot program schools can make it work smoothly that’s great, but the lack of specific information is not inspiring confidence than anyone actually has a workable plan beyond putting a storage unit in each room and telling teachers and students to figure it out. That hasn’t worked out well in the past.

My kids have both had teachers that used the hanging shoe rack thing for phones. It was indeed as simple as that - phones in on the way in, out on the way out.

It’s really not that simple because the teacher down the hall does something different so they want to keep their phone and *there is no consequence if they do*. Please stop telling teachers what THEY deal with every single day .

I am 100% on board with instituting a uniform policy and making Admin enforce consequences. I was replying to the comment that the shoe rack approach was complicated and so needed explained in more depth by the schools piloting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ISSUE WITH THE NEW CELL PHONE POLICY
1ST. We pay the phone bill and we should be able to text or call them when we want to.
2nd. what if our house is on fire and we need to tell our kids ?
3rd. What if they are not felling well and need to go home early. (so many kids even high schoolers, don't know how to use the nurse phone or a phone number_
4th. How about ELL kids who don't speak English and use the phone as a translator?
My son has a friend that translate everything for him in class.

5th. What if something happens and we need to tell our kids?
6. How do we tell teachers they can't be on the phone? If a teacher is on her or his phone can we fire a report to fire them?
7.What if they need to st
8. what if the phone get stolen?
9- what if the school catches fire and they can't get the phone?
10. what if they need for assigment?

haha, did the middle schoolers find this thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ISSUE WITH THE NEW CELL PHONE POLICY
1ST. We pay the phone bill and we should be able to text or call them when we want to.
2nd. what if our house is on fire and we need to tell our kids ?
3rd. What if they are not felling well and need to go home early. (so many kids even high schoolers, don't know how to use the nurse phone or a phone number_
4th. How about ELL kids who don't speak English and use the phone as a translator?
My son has a friend that translate everything for him in class.

5th. What if something happens and we need to tell our kids?
6. How do we tell teachers they can't be on the phone? If a teacher is on her or his phone can we fire a report to fire them?
7.What if they need to st
8. what if the phone get stolen?
9- what if the school catches fire and they can't get the phone?
10. what if they need for assigment?

what if what if what if ... how on earth do you live your life with all these what ifs, and I say this as a "half full glass" person.

How do other school districts around the country manage to use these pouches?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know how the HS version of this with “storage units located in the classroom” is supposed to work. So kids are wasting time at the beginning and end of class to deal with the phones? Who stops a kid from taking someone else’s phone either by mistake or on purpose? A kid who has to be dismissed early for any reason needs to potentially disrupt the entire class to retrieve their phone?

Maybe it’s a great program. But typical of FCPS it’s being implemented in a way that leaves more questions than answers.

You walk in and stick your phone in the slot before you take your seat. Every kid should be in their seat before the bell. It is not some elaborate process nor will it take an inordinate amount of time-unless your kid is the one who sits down, gets on their phone, thinks the rules don’t apply to them, and is the reason it has come to this. Kids will grab their phones on the way out. It will take seconds, just like grabbing a handout on your way out the door.

My now college aged kid had to do this as a HS freshman. It was enough of a mess that most teachers abandoned the practice pretty quickly. If the pilot program schools can make it work smoothly that’s great, but the lack of specific information is not inspiring confidence than anyone actually has a workable plan beyond putting a storage unit in each room and telling teachers and students to figure it out. That hasn’t worked out well in the past.

My kids have both had teachers that used the hanging shoe rack thing for phones. It was indeed as simple as that - phones in on the way in, out on the way out.

It’s really not that simple because the teacher down the hall does something different so they want to keep their phone and *there is no consequence if they do*. Please stop telling teachers what THEY deal with every single day .

DP. This is what our HS is doing this fall. Every teacher will have a hanging shoe rack for phones.

Go and read the 18 pages of parents/kids that hated this way as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ISSUE WITH THE NEW CELL PHONE POLICY
1ST. We pay the phone bill and we should be able to text or call them when we want to.
2nd. what if our house is on fire and we need to tell our kids ?
3rd. What if they are not felling well and need to go home early. (so many kids even high schoolers, don't know how to use the nurse phone or a phone number_
4th. How about ELL kids who don't speak English and use the phone as a translator?
My son has a friend that translate everything for him in class.

5th. What if something happens and we need to tell our kids?
6. How do we tell teachers they can't be on the phone? If a teacher is on her or his phone can we fire a report to fire them?
7.What if they need to st
8. what if the phone get stolen?
9- what if the school catches fire and they can't get the phone?
10. what if they need for assigment?

what if what if what if ... how on earth do you live your life with all these what ifs, and I say this as a "half full glass" person.

How do other school districts around the country manage to use these pouches?

Isn’t the PP just making fun of DCUM?

[Anonymous]

The kids who don’t take out their phones will put their phones in the pouch. The troublesome kids wouldn’t, not sure what would help those kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ISSUE WITH THE NEW CELL PHONE POLICY
1ST. We pay the phone bill and we should be able to text or call them when we want to.
2nd. what if our house is on fire and we need to tell our kids ?
3rd. What if they are not felling well and need to go home early. (so many kids even high schoolers, don't know how to use the nurse phone or a phone number_
4th. How about ELL kids who don't speak English and use the phone as a translator?
My son has a friend that translate everything for him in class.

5th. What if something happens and we need to tell our kids?
6. How do we tell teachers they can't be on the phone? If a teacher is on her or his phone can we fire a report to fire them?
7.What if they need to st
8. what if the phone get stolen?
9- what if the school catches fire and they can't get the phone?
10. what if they need for assigment?

what if what if what if ... how on earth do you live your life with all these what ifs, and I say this as a "half full glass" person.

How do other school districts around the country manage to use these pouches?

Isn’t the PP just making fun of DCUM?

DP
I assumed so.