No phone at school for high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son's school requires it to be kept in his locker bell to bell. He can have it at lunch. I find it is useful for him to have it with him generally, as extracurriculars and sports seem to have constant schedule changes.

Sports sports sports. How did anyone survive playing games after school without a phone.

Personally, I survived by calling my parents from the pay phone outside the school, using the family's calling card. That's not an option anymore.

FWIW, I fully support having phones away for the day. All of the evidence says this is the way to go. OP's question is about not allowing a high schooler to take a phone to the school at all, which is a very different situation. It would have been difficult to navigate schedule changes, activities, going home with friends, etc. for my DCs when they were in high school, pre-driving age. Not impossible, but difficult.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have straight A’s in hard classes. I don’t mind if they have their phone as long as they follow staff instructions for it, which they do.

+1 my kid has straight As in all classes. We don’t care. They don’t use it during class.

+2

And it comes in handy for communicating scheduling changes for sports or other after school plans. The sports teams and other extracurricular activities (band etc) communicate with the students through apps.

IMHO kids who are going to be a problem, will be a problem regardless of what the school policy is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids have straight A’s in hard classes. I don’t mind if they have their phone as long as they follow staff instructions for it, which they do.

+1 my kid has straight As in all classes. We don’t care. They don’t use it during class.

+2

And it comes in handy for communicating scheduling changes for sports or other after school plans. The sports teams and other extracurricular activities (band etc) communicate with the students through apps.

IMHO kids who are going to be a problem, will be a problem regardless of what the school policy is.

This is why “away for the day” is a perfectly reasonable compromise. When kids can’t check their phones from bell to bell, teachers report that all students are more engaged in class. Kids actually talk to each other and socialize face to face rather than isolate themselves on their phones. The entire environment of the school changes, for the better.

Then, at the end of the school day, students can take out their phones and check all the sports/extracurricular apps they want for afterschool scheduling updates.

Win win.

[Anonymous]

"No phones" was implemented at our school a year ago and apparently the kids didn't miss it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son's school requires it to be kept in his locker bell to bell. He can have it at lunch. I find it is useful for him to have it with him generally, as extracurriculars and sports seem to have constant schedule changes.

Sports sports sports. How did anyone survive playing games after school without a phone.

My kids drive to sports practice and back. I want them to have a phone. This thread is bizarre. I think back to times as a teen and young woman when I REALLY wish I had a phone if only for safety and being able to reach someone.

Collect phones at the beginning of the day and give them back after school, that way kids can have them to drive home or during practice. This week with all of the uncertain weather, it was unclear if they would have practice after school, but they don’t need to know if practice is canceled until after school anyway when they were already have their phones back. There is no reason kids need phones at school and I am 100% supportive of our school‘s policy of collecting them and heading back at the end of the day.

[Anonymous]

Our school bans phone use outside of a certain area at lunch.

Hilariously, once my kid left his lunch at home. I brought it to school. They asked “Have you let him know you dropped it off?” When I replied no bc his phone was off & away, they said they had no way to contact him to get it.

They aren’t going to allow kids phones but also aren’t going to ping the kids class that there’s something in the office for them?

[Anonymous]

HS teacher here. My school has banned phones. Enforcement in individual classes was strict in the fall and not at all strict now. It will vary by teacher. Most aren’t following the bad by this time in May. They all have them in the halls, between classes and during lunch. Most kids are not using them in class but they aren’t being mass collected anymore.

Every kid has a phone. Yes, will find some in the school who don’t bring a phone to school but it is extremely rare. Decide if you want that to be your kid for your own reasons.

I send my own kids with phones to their schools. I expect them to follow the policies of their teachers during the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our school bans phones in high school.

Every school needs to ban phones entirely.

No because the6 head to college after this .

Parents are ridiculous

If your kids not responsible don’t give them a phone.

You all complained about life saving masks but your twats can not handle phones society is domed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son's school requires it to be kept in his locker bell to bell. He can have it at lunch. I find it is useful for him to have it with him generally, as extracurriculars and sports seem to have constant schedule changes.

Sports sports sports. How did anyone survive playing games after school without a phone.

WE HAD PHONES. They were just stuck to the ground and you needed a quarter, but I called home a lot. My teen has no access to a phone except his own.

[Anonymous]

Op here- ds is a teen boy who is very distracted by his phone. We are in MCPS and they actually enforce it well in his middle school so it's not a school wide problem. He doesn't bring it to school now. I can see it being a distraction if he has it in his pocket for high school and brings it out for lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school bans phone use outside of a certain area at lunch.

Hilariously, once my kid left his lunch at home. I brought it to school. They asked “Have you let him know you dropped it off?” When I replied no bc his phone was off & away, they said they had no way to contact him to get it.

They aren’t going to allow kids phones but also aren’t going to ping the kids class that there’s something in the office for them?

Next time email your kid, or send an iMessage or social media message. They're still online on their computer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here- ds is a teen boy who is very distracted by his phone. We are in MCPS and they actually enforce it well in his middle school so it's not a school wide problem. He doesn't bring it to school now. I can see it being a distraction if he has it in his pocket for high school and brings it out for lunch.

It’s May. Don’t worry about Aug and beyond right now. A lot can change between 8th grade and then. There are 1000 things more important to worry about in HS than this. - the teacher poster

[Anonymous]

Phones are not allowed at my son’s HS. If they are seen at all during the school day, it’s a week of after school detention starting that afternoon. My son got caught once and then never again. He said most of the kids in detention are freshman who are testing the limits.

[Anonymous]

My kids school is free range and their really allowed to be on them whenever they want, their might be a teacher against it here in there but in general their allowed to be on them all the time, but with such lenience the kids really are not on them 24/7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You mean - this is your rule or the school's rule?

My kid's school has a locker bank just for phones. They go in the lockers in the morning and come out when school is done.

im envious. what school is this?