petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.

But when you give your kid a phone and they decide "how [THEY] use it", kids are using it during class time distracting themselves and their classmates which takes away from classwork time and teachers having to spend time telling students with a phone to put it away or taking the phone away when students don't do it. So, for those parents who say "don't need the state raising our kids", are you volunteering to sit in on your kid's classes to mitigate your kid's phone/device usage during class time? Do YOU plan to raise YOUR kid?

Of course those parents won't come in to sit in on their child's class. why would they when that means taking time away from their own phones?

I would. We go to everything we are invited or included with. Would you?

All day. Every day. 180 days. That is the commitment you are making.

No, you wouldn't.

Actually, I have done it and would if I needed to. I had a child with severe special needs who had to go to a specialized school and I had to drive them back and forth. Due to distance it wasn't worth going home. They had two way mirrors so yes, I'd observe and I stayed. Speak for yourself. In our home, kids come first.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This policy already exists, teachers are powerless because they can't confiscate phones anymore and students become violent when pushed.

90% of the time, I can get the kid to surrender the phone until the end of my class. The alternative is that I call security which would require parent contact to get the phone back.

This was the first year that I encountered multiple students with decoy phones.

Parents need to be contacted and should have to come into the office and speak with an Administrator. It will be inconvenient at first but definitely start to curb the overall behavior.

Put out an announcement before school starts telling about policy and consequence then enforce.

You must spend some time in a classroom/your kid's classes before you say this so simply.

I have which is why I say it needs to happen. Some of the very parents here on DCUM who think phones in schools is not a problem would sign a different tune if they sat in the corner of a MS/HS classroom for a week and really observed. Heck they might even notice that their little angel wasn’t as angelic as previously thought.

Enforcement of phones in lockers/out of site in backpacks or in a lock bag during school hours should be a policy that is actively enforced. Would it make teachers and administrators jobs more difficult for a time at the beginning of this coming SY? Absolutely. Would it be worth it for the long run of teaching, learning, and kids learning to manage life without constant distraction? Absolutely.

You surely cannot have a high school student in MCPS if you have this attitude. Lets see, make MCPS safer, provide busing for students 1 mile or futher or across dangerous roads or no sidewalk neighborhoods and have pay phones or another way for students to contact parents both during and after school (mine spend up to 12-14 hours a day at school). Lets start there.

And, lock down the chromebooks. You take away phones and they just use the chromebooks.

At our HS they don't get lockers past freshman year and no way they can get to the lockers after school or during school because of the distance.

Its it ironic you are constantly on here complaining about screens when you are on them vs. being with your kids.

A) I’m not the poster on here constantly complaining about screens. B) It’s clear you haven’t talked to a MS or HS teacher in MCPS or any other district if you don’t know how feed up they are with phones. They would love it if Admin would enforce a cell phone policy.

Teachers need to grow up and stop blaming admin or MCPS and put rules in the classrooms and enforce them. We had some teachers who had rules and enforced them and it worked well. If there was an issue they also communicated with us. Teachers have given up or refuse to be teachers, which means making and enforcing rules and communicating with parents.

If you don't want your kid to have a phone, that's ok and don't get them one. However, if you don't do a phone, they will just use the chromebooks for social media.

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Anonymous wrote:If the phones are given to children by parents to be used in emergencies (e.g. when students have to remain inside a classroom or must evacuate the classroom), the issue with phones being stored away in a locker which are in the hallways is students do not have time to go to their lockers to get their phones. So now folks are suggesting those pouches but:
-kids cut the pouches
-kids put a decoy phone in the pouch while keeping their real phone on them
-some students already have a pencil pouch in their zippered binders or a bag/pouch of some sort, so why another "pouch"?

some students use their phone/device for health reason. those families will argue their kid needs the phone on them at all times

No system is perfect. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try. It's like saying we shouldn't try for stricter gun laws because criminals still have guns and will find ways to get guns.

Plenty of schools use yondr pouches with pretty good results. Google it.

Trying these policies is just a waste of time. Some kids want to learn and others don't. Trying to force them to pay attention won't solve anything.

Agreed. Waste of time and energy.

If you do not want your kid to have a phone at school, make the kid keep the phone at home.

Why does your kid bring his/her phone to school?

Worry about your kid and let me worry about mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.

But when you give your kid a phone and they decide "how [THEY] use it", kids are using it during class time distracting themselves and their classmates which takes away from classwork time and teachers having to spend time telling students with a phone to put it away or taking the phone away when students don't do it. So, for those parents who say "don't need the state raising our kids", are you volunteering to sit in on your kid's classes to mitigate your kid's phone/device usage during class time? Do YOU plan to raise YOUR kid?

Of course those parents won't come in to sit in on their child's class. why would they when that means taking time away from their own phones?

I would. We go to everything we are invited or included with. Would you?

All day. Every day. 180 days. That is the commitment you are making.

No, you wouldn't.

Actually, I have done it and would if I needed to. I had a child with severe special needs who had to go to a specialized school and I had to drive them back and forth. Due to distance it wasn't worth going home. They had two way mirrors so yes, I'd observe and I stayed. Speak for yourself. In our home, kids come first.

Do you realize majority of classrooms do not have those type of mirrors and observation rooms? In most homes, kids come first, you ain't the only special parent.-Different poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.

But when you give your kid a phone and they decide "how [THEY] use it", kids are using it during class time distracting themselves and their classmates which takes away from classwork time and teachers having to spend time telling students with a phone to put it away or taking the phone away when students don't do it. So, for those parents who say "don't need the state raising our kids", are you volunteering to sit in on your kid's classes to mitigate your kid's phone/device usage during class time? Do YOU plan to raise YOUR kid?

Of course those parents won't come in to sit in on their child's class. why would they when that means taking time away from their own phones?

I would. We go to everything we are invited or included with. Would you?

All day. Every day. 180 days. That is the commitment you are making.

No, you wouldn't.

Actually, I have done it and would if I needed to. I had a child with severe special needs who had to go to a specialized school and I had to drive them back and forth. Due to distance it wasn't worth going home. They had two way mirrors so yes, I'd observe and I stayed. Speak for yourself. In our home, kids come first.

Do you realize majority of classrooms do not have those type of mirrors and observation rooms? In most homes, kids come first, you ain't the only special parent.-Different poster.

In most homes, kids don't come first. Sad but true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.

But when you give your kid a phone and they decide "how [THEY] use it", kids are using it during class time distracting themselves and their classmates which takes away from classwork time and teachers having to spend time telling students with a phone to put it away or taking the phone away when students don't do it. So, for those parents who say "don't need the state raising our kids", are you volunteering to sit in on your kid's classes to mitigate your kid's phone/device usage during class time? Do YOU plan to raise YOUR kid?

Of course those parents won't come in to sit in on their child's class. why would they when that means taking time away from their own phones?

I would. We go to everything we are invited or included with. Would you?

All day. Every day. 180 days. That is the commitment you are making.

No, you wouldn't.

Actually, I have done it and would if I needed to. I had a child with severe special needs who had to go to a specialized school and I had to drive them back and forth. Due to distance it wasn't worth going home. They had two way mirrors so yes, I'd observe and I stayed. Speak for yourself. In our home, kids come first.

Do you realize majority of classrooms do not have those type of mirrors and observation rooms? In most homes, kids come first, you ain't the only special parent.-Different poster.

In most homes, kids don't come first. Sad but true.

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