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Phones have almost no upsides in an academic setting when compared to their alternative choices. |
It wasn't fine for all those other kids. You know, not everyone can just take the bus home, if they aren't assigned a bus. Or they go somewhere else after school. |
You are saying they returned to normal operations, so the kids weren’t released to the steer without phones nor without notifying the parents. Are you this tethered to a HIGH school student?? What are you doing when they go to college? |
Alternative choices? Like carrier pigeon? Smoke signals? |
Your kids swim team handles this so you’re so sure schools can? Lmao |
So, what wasn't ok for these kids? Others lent phones to kids so they could make calls ....are you implying they only let kids who ride buses call someone? |
Here's an article from Wakefield from students' perspective .
https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/10/02/heres-what-students-think-of-new-cell-phone-restrictions-in-arlington-schools/ |
Yep, totally. When other parents are all “I only talk to my kid between the hours of 5-7,” I’m all “I sent my kid a text at 2 asking if he’d be up for tacos or pasta for dinner.” Mind: blown. It’s really quite shocking what I’m doing to the kid. I’ve considered turning myself in to Child and Family Services but for now we’re both going to therapy about it, and the counselor is helping us understand that simple inquiries like these are going to slowly destroy my kid one text at a time. And probably he won’t be able to handle a world in which -- someday -- he might have to get dinner for himself without discussing it beforehand. I’m really not sure what the future looks like. I’ve accepted that my kid will almost certainly be jailed or homeless by the time he’s 21 if he hasn’t gone Menendez brothers on me by then. |
I wish I could be certain this is satire. |
I think it is not going as badly as parents hoped it would. |
+1 The biggest problem is the parent texting their student at 2:00. |
Surely they'll figure out they can listen to music via their macbooks. Other than that, they don't seem to have a big issue. |
Well I guess students and parents have gotten use to the pouches and nothing dire has happened because of them. |
Not surprising. I'm sure individuals are having their fits, though. |