APS Yondr Pouch: Opening at home questions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i am home and my yandr is in a coma sort of and it is the weekend pes help me

Won’t do this again I assume.

This is the kind of mean dismissive attitude that comes from people who don't care about making life harder for kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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

As PP said, if the phone stays in his bag or pocket it won't be confiscated. If that seems impossible perhaps the phone should stay home.

If the parents who lobbied for Yondrs would have just kept their kids' phones home, we wouldn't be in this mess. Instead they made it everyone else's problem!

My kid doesn’t have a phone. I am in favor of Yondr pouches because I want other kids to be present socially and I don’t want teachers policing phones throughout the day, causing bad teacher-student relationships and losing lots of time. This is a group problem and it needs a collective solution. Your kid will get used to it.

(perhaps you work for a social media company and are worried about lost revenue? Or are a paid troll?)

So you're good with the fact that policing phone pouches leads to bad relationships between kids and teachers/staff/admins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in an pouch school and I've posted on this thread before. My kid doesn't use it any more and I doubt many others do. It's at the bottom of the backpack.

Giant waste of money

+1
I'm so glad this thread got bumped because these just serve to enrich some stupid pouch company and they do. not. work. for schools. It's just more administrative headache and more money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No parent that I've spoken to in person is in favor of this pouch nonsense. I sometimes wonder who is on the other side of the screen in here.

I am a parent, a real one, and I am in favor of the pouches. We are thinking of moving into APS district (from MD) because of the better bell to bell restrictive cell phone policies. I taught high school at the beginning of my career and considered returning after my RIF this year. Through networking channels, I was able to observe some high schools in Montgomery County and I was shocked to see that least a third of students in some classes were completely disengaged listening to other stuff on their earbuds. In other classes, the teachers spent a third of class time getting the kids off their cell phones to focus on content. So much instructional time and energy lost!

For the kids who are paying attention, the constant teacher redirection away fro, phones is awful to deal with too.

Have you see recent test scores in this country? They just keep going down, it’s the phones, it’s not the pandemic.

Phones are just the latest thing people want to blame. First they blamed Covid, then when it's been too long to blame that anymore, they turned to phones. It's the same people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i am home and my yandr is in a coma sort of and it is the weekend pes help me

Won’t do this again I assume.

This is the kind of mean dismissive attitude that comes from people who don't care about making life harder for kids.

Not having access to their personal phone for a weekend is not a real hardship.

I’m sure they never left home to school and forgot their phone, so they are capable of remembering and they will going forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i am home and my yandr is in a coma sort of and it is the weekend pes help me

Won’t do this again I assume.

This is the kind of mean dismissive attitude that comes from people who don't care about making life harder for kids.

Not having access to their personal phone for a weekend is not a real hardship.

I’m sure they never left home to school and forgot their phone, so they are capable of remembering and they will going forward.

Let's lock up YOUR phone and see how you do. Anyone who uses their own phone and pushes Yondr pouches for high school students is a hyprocrite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in an pouch school and I've posted on this thread before. My kid doesn't use it any more and I doubt many others do. It's at the bottom of the backpack.

Giant waste of money

+1
I'm so glad this thread got bumped because these just serve to enrich some stupid pouch company and they do. not. work. for schools. It's just more administrative headache and more money.

Preach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in an pouch school and I've posted on this thread before. My kid doesn't use it any more and I doubt many others do. It's at the bottom of the backpack.

Giant waste of money

+1
I'm so glad this thread got bumped because these just serve to enrich some stupid pouch company and they do. not. work. for schools. It's just more administrative headache and more money.

It's laughable that these clueless pro pouch parents think the pouches are working. If they only knew what was really happening in schools - ha! But I'm not going to fill them in. I'll just lay low and wait for this ridiculous trend to pass. APS can't justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on these dumb pouches year after year. At least I hope it can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in an pouch school and I've posted on this thread before. My kid doesn't use it any more and I doubt many others do. It's at the bottom of the backpack.

Giant waste of money

+1
I'm so glad this thread got bumped because these just serve to enrich some stupid pouch company and they do. not. work. for schools. It's just more administrative headache and more money.

It's laughable that these clueless pro pouch parents think the pouches are working. If they only knew what was really happening in schools - ha! But I'm not going to fill them in. I'll just lay low and wait for this ridiculous trend to pass. APS can't justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on these dumb pouches year after year. At least I hope it can't.

I agree to be honest. Will be writing to Dr Duran about simply banning phones from schools. They shouldn’t be on campus at all. A much cheaper solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in an pouch school and I've posted on this thread before. My kid doesn't use it any more and I doubt many others do. It's at the bottom of the backpack.

Giant waste of money

+1
I'm so glad this thread got bumped because these just serve to enrich some stupid pouch company and they do. not. work. for schools. It's just more administrative headache and more money.

It's laughable that these clueless pro pouch parents think the pouches are working. If they only knew what was really happening in schools - ha! But I'm not going to fill them in. I'll just lay low and wait for this ridiculous trend to pass. APS can't justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on these dumb pouches year after year. At least I hope it can't.

I agree to be honest. Will be writing to Dr Duran about simply banning phones from schools. They shouldn’t be on campus at all. A much cheaper solution.

So what do you propose instead? You can't ban other kids from having their phones on the way to and from school. It's a basic safety item for kids who walk or drive. You are of course more than welcome to send your own kid out into the world without a phone if you want. But I bet you won't. I bet you don't even have older kids. You probably still walk your kids to school.

You are clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in an pouch school and I've posted on this thread before. My kid doesn't use it any more and I doubt many others do. It's at the bottom of the backpack.

Giant waste of money

+1
I'm so glad this thread got bumped because these just serve to enrich some stupid pouch company and they do. not. work. for schools. It's just more administrative headache and more money.

It's laughable that these clueless pro pouch parents think the pouches are working. If they only knew what was really happening in schools - ha! But I'm not going to fill them in. I'll just lay low and wait for this ridiculous trend to pass. APS can't justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on these dumb pouches year after year. At least I hope it can't.

I agree to be honest. Will be writing to Dr Duran about simply banning phones from schools. They shouldn’t be on campus at all. A much cheaper solution.

I'm going to write him about wanting more tech in schools. We need more screen time. More use of ipads for little kids. There isn't enough use of tech in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

APS high school teacher here. We have had so many problems with kids and the cell phones in class. Also, the kids didn’t talk to each other between classes and they were always arriving late to class because they were on their phones. On the day after the pouches were implemented, the kids arrived early to every class except the first period of the day. They weren’t late, they talked to their classmates, they seemed engaged. Sure, did I see kids with phones who shouldn’t have had them? Of course. But it was SO MUCH LESS than pre pouch. Many kids know how to get around the pouches but even if they do break it open, the existence of the pouch makes it much harder to have them out in class.

If you have never spent time inside a high school all day, you have no idea how important these measures are to improve student engagement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS high school teacher here. We have had so many problems with kids and the cell phones in class. Also, the kids didn’t talk to each other between classes and they were always arriving late to class because they were on their phones. On the day after the pouches were implemented, the kids arrived early to every class except the first period of the day. They weren’t late, they talked to their classmates, they seemed engaged. Sure, did I see kids with phones who shouldn’t have had them? Of course. But it was SO MUCH LESS than pre pouch. Many kids know how to get around the pouches but even if they do break it open, the existence of the pouch makes it much harder to have them out in class.

If you have never spent time inside a high school all day, you have no idea how important these measures are to improve student engagement.

+1000
Signed, another APS HS teacher