APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned

[Anonymous]

I'm an APS teacher who is fine with the app. In fact, I haven't heard a single comment about it at my school.

OP is ONE APS teacher - not the spokesperson for all APS teachers. While I know others may have concerns about the app, many do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an APS teacher who is fine with the app. In fact, I haven't heard a single comment about it at my school.

OP is ONE APS teacher - not the spokesperson for all APS teachers. While I know others may have concerns about the app, many do not.

I wasn’t happy about it until I realized it’s an app I already have and use. I will have to get better about not forgetting my phone in the car though.
It’s really the same dozen or so people who raise alarms and freak out about stuff. Then they spam Syphax and the school board and complain that response times are long.

[Anonymous]

Get a dumb phone and only have that at school. Then point out that the MS Authenticator application simply is not available for that phone. Make it their problem to solve.

They cannot require that an employee buy a personal smart phone, although most people do happen to have one. There are people at my work who still have dumb phones and only use SMS with T9 for messaging.

[Anonymous]

Get a prepaid or other cheap burner phone and use that.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it odd to require teachers to use their phones while prohibiting 18 year old adult students from doing the same? APS is admitting there are some things only phones can do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it odd to require teachers to use their phones while prohibiting 18 year old adult students from doing the same? APS is admitting there are some things only phones can do.

No, not at all. The kids don't need phones to sign into APS technology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corporations give staff tokens if they want to opt out of using their personal devices.

Aps refuses to let us use those. Or use the school issued iPads we have.

Also in the corporate world, you are not logging into multiple devices each day in multiple different classrooms

You also don’t work around hundreds of children who will gladly steal your phone if you given the opportunity

THIS. People who haven’t taught have no idea what goes on in schools these days. Most of the high school teachers I know keep their purses locked in their trunk. These women can’t keep a smartphone in their pants pocket. It will eventually get put down. It’s much smaller than an iPad, so it WILL get swiped. The headspace required to prevent this could be put to better use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a dumb phone and only have that at school. Then point out that the MS Authenticator application simply is not available for that phone. Make it their problem to solve.

They cannot require that an employee buy a personal smart phone, although most people do happen to have one. There are people at my work who still have dumb phones and only use SMS with T9 for messaging.

This PP is brilliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it odd to require teachers to use their phones while prohibiting 18 year old adult students from doing the same? APS is admitting there are some things only phones can do.

No, not at all. The kids don't need phones to sign into APS technology.

maybe not for that but there are other things they do need it for