New cell phone policy for 2026-2027

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

I wouldn't worry about that! When the line to collect the phones becomes another 20+ minutes to the school day, that will be a natural consequence of kids taking their phones out at lunch. Miss the bus, walk home, or call your parents to get you. Sooner or later, it'll start to be a greater problem for the kid/family. So let them do what they want. Let the parents provide burner phones if they want. They'll need to buy a good supply of those burner phones otherwise the natural consequence will still become an issue for them.

Heck, hopefully the administration at these schools are looking at this thread and can implement a delayed return policy for the phone (same day, 20 minutes after school has been dismissed) and let the chips fall where they may. Guarantee this is a problem which will then self-correct instantaneously, within the first two weeks of school.

That. Is. Brilliant.

+10000

Thank you to the poster! At our HS, the PTA is engaging with the Administration about best way to implement the new policy. I'm most definitely bringing this to their attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

The bigger problem is that in many schools there are already barely any consequences for misbehavior, rules breaking, or truancy.
Fix that and the rest will fall into place.

+1

The number of people here imagining with utter glee how students will get punished (in really inconvenient ways for the parents who don't agree with them!!) are living in a total fantasy. The schools don't punish things. In a lot of cases they aren't allowed. I know someone who had a student physically assault them at work and there was nothing. There is a thread about butt grabbing at Carson where the school did nothing.

You think they are going to establish a system (that is borderline illegal property seizure) to deal with cell phones? After they willfully ignored a state law on the topic and teachers at the schools have said they aren't interested in enforcing?

Go have fantasies about forcing other people to agree with you somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

I wouldn't worry about that! When the line to collect the phones becomes another 20+ minutes to the school day, that will be a natural consequence of kids taking their phones out at lunch. Miss the bus, walk home, or call your parents to get you. Sooner or later, it'll start to be a greater problem for the kid/family. So let them do what they want. Let the parents provide burner phones if they want. They'll need to buy a good supply of those burner phones otherwise the natural consequence will still become an issue for them.

Heck, hopefully the administration at these schools are looking at this thread and can implement a delayed return policy for the phone (same day, 20 minutes after school has been dismissed) and let the chips fall where they may. Guarantee this is a problem which will then self-correct instantaneously, within the first two weeks of school.

That. Is. Brilliant.

+10000

Thank you to the poster! At our HS, the PTA is engaging with the Administration about best way to implement the new policy. I'm most definitely bringing this to their attention.

Legal will shut this down in about 5 seconds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

The bigger problem is that in many schools there are already barely any consequences for misbehavior, rules breaking, or truancy.
Fix that and the rest will fall into place.

+1

The number of people here imagining with utter glee how students will get punished (in really inconvenient ways for the parents who don't agree with them!!) are living in a total fantasy. The schools don't punish things. In a lot of cases they aren't allowed. I know someone who had a student physically assault them at work and there was nothing. There is a thread about butt grabbing at Carson where the school did nothing.

You think they are going to establish a system (that is borderline illegal property seizure) to deal with cell phones? After they willfully ignored a state law on the topic and teachers at the schools have said they aren't interested in enforcing?

Go have fantasies about forcing other people to agree with you somewhere else.

My FCPS school already does this. The second time your phone is taken, you get detention and cannot pick up your phone until detention is completed at 4:30. The third time your phone is taken, parents must come collect it. Before they can pick it up, they have to have a meeting with the assistant principal. It's been going so well this year--phone use is WAY down in the building.

I hope everyone's school adopts it next year, it's made behaviors so much better on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

The bigger problem is that in many schools there are already barely any consequences for misbehavior, rules breaking, or truancy.
Fix that and the rest will fall into place.

+1

The number of people here imagining with utter glee how students will get punished (in really inconvenient ways for the parents who don't agree with them!!) are living in a total fantasy. The schools don't punish things. In a lot of cases they aren't allowed. I know someone who had a student physically assault them at work and there was nothing. There is a thread about butt grabbing at Carson where the school did nothing.

You think they are going to establish a system (that is borderline illegal property seizure) to deal with cell phones? After they willfully ignored a state law on the topic and teachers at the schools have said they aren't interested in enforcing?

Go have fantasies about forcing other people to agree with you somewhere else.

My FCPS school already does this. The second time your phone is taken, you get detention and cannot pick up your phone until detention is completed at 4:30. The third time your phone is taken, parents must come collect it. Before they can pick it up, they have to have a meeting with the assistant principal. It's been going so well this year--phone use is WAY down in the building.

I hope everyone's school adopts it next year, it's made behaviors so much better on campus.

What school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

The bigger problem is that in many schools there are already barely any consequences for misbehavior, rules breaking, or truancy.
Fix that and the rest will fall into place.

+1

The number of people here imagining with utter glee how students will get punished (in really inconvenient ways for the parents who don't agree with them!!) are living in a total fantasy. The schools don't punish things. In a lot of cases they aren't allowed. I know someone who had a student physically assault them at work and there was nothing. There is a thread about butt grabbing at Carson where the school did nothing.

You think they are going to establish a system (that is borderline illegal property seizure) to deal with cell phones? After they willfully ignored a state law on the topic and teachers at the schools have said they aren't interested in enforcing?

Go have fantasies about forcing other people to agree with you somewhere else.

Behaviors can absolutely change when enough pressure comes from parents. Emailing FCPS principals that they are violating the law is a no-brainer for disgruntled parents. And on this issue, there will be plenty of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

The bigger problem is that in many schools there are already barely any consequences for misbehavior, rules breaking, or truancy.
Fix that and the rest will fall into place.

+1

The number of people here imagining with utter glee how students will get punished (in really inconvenient ways for the parents who don't agree with them!!) are living in a total fantasy. The schools don't punish things. In a lot of cases they aren't allowed. I know someone who had a student physically assault them at work and there was nothing. There is a thread about butt grabbing at Carson where the school did nothing.

You think they are going to establish a system (that is borderline illegal property seizure) to deal with cell phones? After they willfully ignored a state law on the topic and teachers at the schools have said they aren't interested in enforcing?

Go have fantasies about forcing other people to agree with you somewhere else.

My FCPS school already does this. The second time your phone is taken, you get detention and cannot pick up your phone until detention is completed at 4:30. The third time your phone is taken, parents must come collect it. Before they can pick it up, they have to have a meeting with the assistant principal. It's been going so well this year--phone use is WAY down in the building.

I hope everyone's school adopts it next year, it's made behaviors so much better on campus.

What school?

DP
I believe Key MS has done something like this for a couple of years now.

[Anonymous]

Illegal “property seizure”??

Back in elementary school, it was the Koosh balls that were driving the teachers crazy.
To the point where they would take it, lock it away in a desk, and the student could get it back at the end of the day.
Seems fair to me if an item is not allowed to be used during school, that it be confiscated and returned at the end of the day. That is not illegal property seizure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Illegal “property seizure”??

Back in elementary school, it was the Koosh balls that were driving the teachers crazy.
To the point where they would take it, lock it away in a desk, and the student could get it back at the end of the day.
Seems fair to me if an item is not allowed to be used during school, that it be confiscated and returned at the end of the day. That is not illegal property seizure.

I’ve seen admin confiscate smartwatches from ES students who were texting during the school day. It’s doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

The bigger problem is that in many schools there are already barely any consequences for misbehavior, rules breaking, or truancy.
Fix that and the rest will fall into place.

+1

The number of people here imagining with utter glee how students will get punished (in really inconvenient ways for the parents who don't agree with them!!) are living in a total fantasy. The schools don't punish things. In a lot of cases they aren't allowed. I know someone who had a student physically assault them at work and there was nothing. There is a thread about butt grabbing at Carson where the school did nothing.

You think they are going to establish a system (that is borderline illegal property seizure) to deal with cell phones? After they willfully ignored a state law on the topic and teachers at the schools have said they aren't interested in enforcing?

Go have fantasies about forcing other people to agree with you somewhere else.

Behaviors can absolutely change when enough pressure comes from parents. Emailing FCPS principals that they are violating the law is a no-brainer for disgruntled parents. And on this issue, there will be plenty of them.

Bring it on. I will just ding the grades of those students. See where they end up in college.

[Anonymous]

Or it can come up in the recommendation letters much more easily... "Solid student with problematic cell phone usage...."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

The bigger problem is that in many schools there are already barely any consequences for misbehavior, rules breaking, or truancy.
Fix that and the rest will fall into place.

+1

The number of people here imagining with utter glee how students will get punished (in really inconvenient ways for the parents who don't agree with them!!) are living in a total fantasy. The schools don't punish things. In a lot of cases they aren't allowed. I know someone who had a student physically assault them at work and there was nothing. There is a thread about butt grabbing at Carson where the school did nothing.

You think they are going to establish a system (that is borderline illegal property seizure) to deal with cell phones? After they willfully ignored a state law on the topic and teachers at the schools have said they aren't interested in enforcing?

Go have fantasies about forcing other people to agree with you somewhere else.

+1,000,000 this exactly!!! lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or it can come up in the recommendation letters much more easily... "Solid student with problematic cell phone usage...."

I get you’re trolling but to even make joke at all…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to believe this thread has been discovered by teens. Surely there aren't parents actively helping their kid find ways to skirt policies that are enforced for the greater good of all students?

I hope the punishments next year for phone use become "phone is held for 2 weeks at school" or "parent must come check the phone into the office daily" or something so ridiculously disruptive to the parents' lives that they are encouraged to actually parent their child's phone use.

I wouldn't worry about that! When the line to collect the phones becomes another 20+ minutes to the school day, that will be a natural consequence of kids taking their phones out at lunch. Miss the bus, walk home, or call your parents to get you. Sooner or later, it'll start to be a greater problem for the kid/family. So let them do what they want. Let the parents provide burner phones if they want. They'll need to buy a good supply of those burner phones otherwise the natural consequence will still become an issue for them.

Heck, hopefully the administration at these schools are looking at this thread and can implement a delayed return policy for the phone (same day, 20 minutes after school has been dismissed) and let the chips fall where they may. Guarantee this is a problem which will then self-correct instantaneously, within the first two weeks of school.

That. Is. Brilliant.

+10000

Thank you to the poster! At our HS, the PTA is engaging with the Administration about best way to implement the new policy. I'm most definitely bringing this to their attention.

If you actually think anyone is going to wait 20 minutes after school to return phones you are more delusional than I thought. lol! Go ahead and introduce this idea. They are going to nod and say we will think about it and then laugh behind your back at the absurdity of it. You parents are so dumb! As if any teacher or Gatehouse listens to your dumb ideas!!!! Thanks for the laugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or it can come up in the recommendation letters much more easily... "Solid student with problematic cell phone usage...."

I get you’re trolling but to even make joke at all…

But you see, that's the beauty of breaking the rules. You ask for the recommendation, it's absolutely within the teacher's right to point out the most obvious issue. You don't want to be exposed to that, then don't break the rules. Very simple ask.