APS Yondr Pouch: Opening at home questions

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One of my kids has already lost their Yondr pouch. I'm absolutely not paying to replace it.

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Anonymous wrote:my kid has a fake one in the pouch. This experiment cost us 130K.

You’re such a cool mom!!

So if your kid doesn’t use their phone all day, why do they bother with a fake one?

DP. Obviously in case of emergency/lockdown. That’s why we’ve considered this, too, and I’m sure many others are also doing it.

Yup my friend's kid was in a lockdown. Phones were required to be in lockers. School made kids leave without letting them get their phones. Kids had no way to contact parents to get home. It was a freakin nightmare.

I don't trust APS one bit not to do this again.

Kids don't HAVE to contact parents to get picked up. Schools will send out communications. Just won't be as fast and direct with your student as you prefer.

It's a sub-par solution to a problem that doesn't need to exist in the first place.

The bigger and more frequent problem is phones in the classroom; the lockdown which becomes school dismissal without access to the school — how often does that happen??? Most lockdowns resolve and return to normal schedule, what is going on at these schools that they throw their hands up and say “whatevs, go home”.

There are plenty of lockdowns -- two on our campus in the past three months -- usually due to some false alarm or outside situation. My school has not made assuring parents that everything is fine a priority. You get an email hours later and long after your kid has gotten in touch. For sure, you hear more reliably and sooner from your own kid. If you are perfectly happy to wait and wonder, have at it but stick to parenting your own kid. I'm not giving up access to my kid to appease the zealous anti-screeners. Putting phones away during instructional time does not necessitate this overbroad and unduly expensive solution.

So you have had two lockdowns where the kid were released from school without given time to go their lockers since school started (which around here is 2 months ago). What district is this?

FCPS. There was one in August and one recently on our campus. I just checked the recent one and the email we got from the school was sent well after the return to normal operations. So, no, the school's track record is not to communicate timely. Again, if it's not important to you to be in touch with your kid, I fully respect that parenting choice, but I'm making a different and equally appropriate one. Phones have their downsides that I'll manage on my own as a parent, including making it clear to my kids that phones are away during instructional time. Phones also have considerable upsides and nothing in this thread has been persuasive that those should be tossed out with the bath water.

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?

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.

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The biggest problem is the parent texting their student at 2:00.

It’s critical question for the middle of the day: pasta or tacos. It does perfectly illustrate why kids don’t need phones during the day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my kids has already lost their Yondr pouch. I'm absolutely not paying to replace it.

That’s fine. He keeps his phone away no one will know or care. When he brings out the phone and doesn’t have a pouch, they will confiscate the phone and his parent can pick it up Friday from front office.

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Google is your friend
Or better yet use this a time to teach your kid how to be responsible.

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Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

That's why you make your kid pay for it, or you cover the cost for them by making them do extra chores or something. Would you say the same thing about a textbook, computer, sports equipment, or anything else the school made your kid responsible for? So dumb and pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

That's why you make your kid pay for it, or you cover the cost for them by making them do extra chores or something. Would you say the same thing about a textbook, computer, sports equipment, or anything else the school made your kid responsible for? So dumb and pathetic.

Lol I'm not going to make my kid pay for something that we never agreed to in the first place. And what about those kids who don't have that kind of expendable cash in the first place? Since the district bought it against many parents' wishes, they can eat the cost. Maybe these waste of monies won't be spread to other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

That's why you make your kid pay for it, or you cover the cost for them by making them do extra chores or something. Would you say the same thing about a textbook, computer, sports equipment, or anything else the school made your kid responsible for? So dumb and pathetic.

Lol I'm not going to make my kid pay for something that we never agreed to in the first place. And what about those kids who don't have that kind of expendable cash in the first place? Since the district bought it against many parents' wishes, they can eat the cost. Maybe these waste of monies won't be spread to other schools.

District bought and distributed iPads and macBooks against many parents' wishes, too; but we get to pay for those repairs/replacements.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

That's why you make your kid pay for it, or you cover the cost for them by making them do extra chores or something. Would you say the same thing about a textbook, computer, sports equipment, or anything else the school made your kid responsible for? So dumb and pathetic.

Lol I'm not going to make my kid pay for something that we never agreed to in the first place. And what about those kids who don't have that kind of expendable cash in the first place? Since the district bought it against many parents' wishes, they can eat the cost. Maybe these waste of monies won't be spread to other schools.

District bought and distributed iPads and macBooks against many parents' wishes, too; but we get to pay for those repairs/replacements.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

That's why you make your kid pay for it, or you cover the cost for them by making them do extra chores or something. Would you say the same thing about a textbook, computer, sports equipment, or anything else the school made your kid responsible for? So dumb and pathetic.

Lol I'm not going to make my kid pay for something that we never agreed to in the first place. And what about those kids who don't have that kind of expendable cash in the first place? Since the district bought it against many parents' wishes, they can eat the cost. Maybe these waste of monies won't be spread to other schools.

District bought and distributed iPads and macBooks against many parents' wishes, too; but we get to pay for those repairs/replacements.

Please then encourage your kids not to bring their iPads and computers to school and see how that goes.

The yondr s don’t serve any instructional purpose. I doubt that any non yondr school is longing for them at all.

Please homeschool your kids and leave the rest of us alone.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids has already lost their Yondr pouch. I'm absolutely not paying to replace it.

Great. Just make sure your kid doesn’t bring their phone to school. Problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

That's why you make your kid pay for it, or you cover the cost for them by making them do extra chores or something. Would you say the same thing about a textbook, computer, sports equipment, or anything else the school made your kid responsible for? So dumb and pathetic.

Lol I'm not going to make my kid pay for something that we never agreed to in the first place. And what about those kids who don't have that kind of expendable cash in the first place? Since the district bought it against many parents' wishes, they can eat the cost. Maybe these waste of monies won't be spread to other schools.

District bought and distributed iPads and macBooks against many parents' wishes, too; but we get to pay for those repairs/replacements.

Please then encourage your kids not to bring their iPads and computers to school and see how that goes.

The yondr s don’t serve any instructional purpose. I doubt that any non yondr school is longing for them at all.

Please homeschool your kids and leave the rest of us alone.

I don't see the point of your first retort; but providing an environment conducive to learning is an instructional purpose, and that's what the pouch contributes to.
Phones are not necessary for instructional purposes. If a teacher is giving work that requires one, that's not necessary and it's something that needs to be eliminated.
I don't care if your kid uses a pouch or not as long as they keep their phone off and away.

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids has already lost their Yondr pouch. I'm absolutely not paying to replace it.

That’s fine. He keeps his phone away no one will know or care. When he brings out the phone and doesn’t have a pouch, they will confiscate the phone and his parent can pick it up Friday from front office.

Yea let’s add to families burdens by
Making us come into school

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Anonymous wrote:One of my kids has already lost their Yondr pouch. I'm absolutely not paying to replace it.

That’s fine. He keeps his phone away no one will know or care. When he brings out the phone and doesn’t have a pouch, they will confiscate the phone and his parent can pick it up Friday from front office.

Yea let’s add to families burdens by
Making us come into school

If he leaves his phone home or follows the rules and he keeps the phone away, no burden.

Just like any detention, many are after school and require the parent to pickup detainee.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, because your kid has never, ever lost anything important. Ever.

That's why you make your kid pay for it, or you cover the cost for them by making them do extra chores or something. Would you say the same thing about a textbook, computer, sports equipment, or anything else the school made your kid responsible for? So dumb and pathetic.

Lol I'm not going to make my kid pay for something that we never agreed to in the first place. And what about those kids who don't have that kind of expendable cash in the first place? Since the district bought it against many parents' wishes, they can eat the cost. Maybe these waste of monies won't be spread to other schools.

District bought and distributed iPads and macBooks against many parents' wishes, too; but we get to pay for those repairs/replacements.

Please then encourage your kids not to bring their iPads and computers to school and see how that goes.

The yondr s don’t serve any instructional purpose. I doubt that any non yondr school is longing for them at all.

Please homeschool your kids and leave the rest of us alone.

I'm so glad Yondrs are not at our school. They seem to be causing more problems than they're worth.