Parental controls on phone to go with Govs new phone policy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used the Grace app on my kid's iphone which is somewhat similar to or related to the Bark phone. It allows me to:

Lock down, from my phone, my kid's phone during certain hours of the day. So I lock it down from 10pm to 7:30 am for bed, and then marry it to my kid's school schedule to lock it down during class periods but open it up for lunch and other big study periods during the school day in case they want to text friends during those free periods etc.

I also set a daily limit of 3 hours (during school days) of total phone screen time (and 5 hours over the summer). Sometimes if the kid asks I'll give more time.

There are other parts of the app that allow you to block specific apps and sites or set specific time limits on certain apps, but I feel I've had less success using those.

I do find the app successful in general. I can control all of this from my own phone, or "pause" all limits from my phone if the kid calls me and says they need access suddently. The limits may shut down the kid's ability to email or text, but they always have access to their phone to call me if there's a problem.

These are all super suggestions but none deal with the issue of the impact of OTHER children’s phone use on my child’s experience. APS should just ban phones during the school day. Period. Lots of schools do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do they get around it?

There will always be kids ten steps ahead of the most tech savvy adults. Even if your child isn’t, five kids in his class are. Don’t send the phone to school if you don’t want them on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should advocate to ACPS to let your kids use the front office phone in one-off emergencies instead of lugging around an $500-1200 cellphone? Because we all know which schools/student bodies creates these issues.

(It is not the ones who can’t afford them.)

I agree with you that just using the office phone would be much better, and students should be able to do that. But I’m trying to point out that not all school systems are amenable to such things. I don’t know what you’re getting at with the rest of your comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used the Grace app on my kid's iphone which is somewhat similar to or related to the Bark phone. It allows me to:

Lock down, from my phone, my kid's phone during certain hours of the day. So I lock it down from 10pm to 7:30 am for bed, and then marry it to my kid's school schedule to lock it down during class periods but open it up for lunch and other big study periods during the school day in case they want to text friends during those free periods etc.

I also set a daily limit of 3 hours (during school days) of total phone screen time (and 5 hours over the summer). Sometimes if the kid asks I'll give more time.

There are other parts of the app that allow you to block specific apps and sites or set specific time limits on certain apps, but I feel I've had less success using those.

I do find the app successful in general. I can control all of this from my own phone, or "pause" all limits from my phone if the kid calls me and says they need access suddently. The limits may shut down the kid's ability to email or text, but they always have access to their phone to call me if there's a problem.

These are all super suggestions but none deal with the issue of the impact of OTHER children’s phone use on my child’s experience. APS should just ban phones during the school day. Period. Lots of schools do this.

You mean, your kid might not have access to their own phone but could be looking over the shoulder of a friend at theirs? I think that would be fairly hard to do during class time unless unless there was almost no supervision of the kids, which isn't my experience in Arlington. And during study halls and lunch etc, I'd be fine with my kid having access to their phone anyway, so from my perspective that wouldn't be a problem.

I think that's a little too intrusive and unnecessary tbh. Take responsibility for your own kids and things will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used the Grace app on my kid's iphone which is somewhat similar to or related to the Bark phone. It allows me to:

Lock down, from my phone, my kid's phone during certain hours of the day. So I lock it down from 10pm to 7:30 am for bed, and then marry it to my kid's school schedule to lock it down during class periods but open it up for lunch and other big study periods during the school day in case they want to text friends during those free periods etc.

I also set a daily limit of 3 hours (during school days) of total phone screen time (and 5 hours over the summer). Sometimes if the kid asks I'll give more time.

There are other parts of the app that allow you to block specific apps and sites or set specific time limits on certain apps, but I feel I've had less success using those.

I do find the app successful in general. I can control all of this from my own phone, or "pause" all limits from my phone if the kid calls me and says they need access suddently. The limits may shut down the kid's ability to email or text, but they always have access to their phone to call me if there's a problem.

These are all super suggestions but none deal with the issue of the impact of OTHER children’s phone use on my child’s experience. APS should just ban phones during the school day. Period. Lots of schools do this.

What do you mean other people's children? There will always be other kids doing something that's distracting to your child. If you don't want your kid around other kids, consider home schooling. Jeez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used the Grace app on my kid's iphone which is somewhat similar to or related to the Bark phone. It allows me to:

Lock down, from my phone, my kid's phone during certain hours of the day. So I lock it down from 10pm to 7:30 am for bed, and then marry it to my kid's school schedule to lock it down during class periods but open it up for lunch and other big study periods during the school day in case they want to text friends during those free periods etc.

I also set a daily limit of 3 hours (during school days) of total phone screen time (and 5 hours over the summer). Sometimes if the kid asks I'll give more time.

There are other parts of the app that allow you to block specific apps and sites or set specific time limits on certain apps, but I feel I've had less success using those.

I do find the app successful in general. I can control all of this from my own phone, or "pause" all limits from my phone if the kid calls me and says they need access suddently. The limits may shut down the kid's ability to email or text, but they always have access to their phone to call me if there's a problem.

These are all super suggestions but none deal with the issue of the impact of OTHER children’s phone use on my child’s experience. APS should just ban phones during the school day. Period. Lots of schools do this.

You mean, your kid might not have access to their own phone but could be looking over the shoulder of a friend at theirs? I think that would be fairly hard to do during class time unless unless there was almost no supervision of the kids, which isn't my experience in Arlington. And during study halls and lunch etc, I'd be fine with my kid having access to their phone anyway, so from my perspective that wouldn't be a problem.

I think that's a little too intrusive and unnecessary tbh. Take responsibility for your own kids and things will be fine.

+1. what happened to parents' choice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used the Grace app on my kid's iphone which is somewhat similar to or related to the Bark phone. It allows me to:

Lock down, from my phone, my kid's phone during certain hours of the day. So I lock it down from 10pm to 7:30 am for bed, and then marry it to my kid's school schedule to lock it down during class periods but open it up for lunch and other big study periods during the school day in case they want to text friends during those free periods etc.

I also set a daily limit of 3 hours (during school days) of total phone screen time (and 5 hours over the summer). Sometimes if the kid asks I'll give more time.

There are other parts of the app that allow you to block specific apps and sites or set specific time limits on certain apps, but I feel I've had less success using those.

I do find the app successful in general. I can control all of this from my own phone, or "pause" all limits from my phone if the kid calls me and says they need access suddently. The limits may shut down the kid's ability to email or text, but they always have access to their phone to call me if there's a problem.

These are all super suggestions but none deal with the issue of the impact of OTHER children’s phone use on my child’s experience. APS should just ban phones during the school day. Period. Lots of schools do this.

You mean, your kid might not have access to their own phone but could be looking over the shoulder of a friend at theirs? I think that would be fairly hard to do during class time unless unless there was almost no supervision of the kids, which isn't my experience in Arlington. And during study halls and lunch etc, I'd be fine with my kid having access to their phone anyway, so from my perspective that wouldn't be a problem.

I think that's a little too intrusive and unnecessary tbh. Take responsibility for your own kids and things will be fine.

+1. what happened to parents' choice?

- teachers spending class time policing your kids phone usage instead of teaching mine
- kids spending all of their free time panting games instead of being available to socialize healthfully with my child, even during downtime
- kids not listening/paying attention in class so not creating a vibrant academic environment
- kids being mean/bullying on phones that is hurtful to my child or a distraction for my child’s friend group

Just the start. Feel free to add.

You all are selfish idiots if you think parental choice will create a healthy environment for kids in APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used the Grace app on my kid's iphone which is somewhat similar to or related to the Bark phone. It allows me to:

Lock down, from my phone, my kid's phone during certain hours of the day. So I lock it down from 10pm to 7:30 am for bed, and then marry it to my kid's school schedule to lock it down during class periods but open it up for lunch and other big study periods during the school day in case they want to text friends during those free periods etc.

I also set a daily limit of 3 hours (during school days) of total phone screen time (and 5 hours over the summer). Sometimes if the kid asks I'll give more time.

There are other parts of the app that allow you to block specific apps and sites or set specific time limits on certain apps, but I feel I've had less success using those.

I do find the app successful in general. I can control all of this from my own phone, or "pause" all limits from my phone if the kid calls me and says they need access suddently. The limits may shut down the kid's ability to email or text, but they always have access to their phone to call me if there's a problem.

These are all super suggestions but none deal with the issue of the impact of OTHER children’s phone use on my child’s experience. APS should just ban phones during the school day. Period. Lots of schools do this.

You mean, your kid might not have access to their own phone but could be looking over the shoulder of a friend at theirs? I think that would be fairly hard to do during class time unless unless there was almost no supervision of the kids, which isn't my experience in Arlington. And during study halls and lunch etc, I'd be fine with my kid having access to their phone anyway, so from my perspective that wouldn't be a problem.

I think that's a little too intrusive and unnecessary tbh. Take responsibility for your own kids and things will be fine.

+1. what happened to parents' choice?

- teachers spending class time policing your kids phone usage instead of teaching mine
- kids spending all of their free time panting games instead of being available to socialize healthfully with my child, even during downtime
- kids not listening/paying attention in class so not creating a vibrant academic environment
- kids being mean/bullying on phones that is hurtful to my child or a distraction for my child’s friend group

Just the start. Feel free to add.

You all are selfish idiots if you think parental choice will create a healthy environment for kids in APS.

So ironic that the same people who insisted on parents choice for masking - nevermind the health risks to the other kids - now want to take away phones from OTHER kids because of the, wait for it, claimed impact on THEIR OWN CHILD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used the Grace app on my kid's iphone which is somewhat similar to or related to the Bark phone. It allows me to:

Lock down, from my phone, my kid's phone during certain hours of the day. So I lock it down from 10pm to 7:30 am for bed, and then marry it to my kid's school schedule to lock it down during class periods but open it up for lunch and other big study periods during the school day in case they want to text friends during those free periods etc.

I also set a daily limit of 3 hours (during school days) of total phone screen time (and 5 hours over the summer). Sometimes if the kid asks I'll give more time.

There are other parts of the app that allow you to block specific apps and sites or set specific time limits on certain apps, but I feel I've had less success using those.

I do find the app successful in general. I can control all of this from my own phone, or "pause" all limits from my phone if the kid calls me and says they need access suddently. The limits may shut down the kid's ability to email or text, but they always have access to their phone to call me if there's a problem.

These are all super suggestions but none deal with the issue of the impact of OTHER children’s phone use on my child’s experience. APS should just ban phones during the school day. Period. Lots of schools do this.

You mean, your kid might not have access to their own phone but could be looking over the shoulder of a friend at theirs? I think that would be fairly hard to do during class time unless unless there was almost no supervision of the kids, which isn't my experience in Arlington. And during study halls and lunch etc, I'd be fine with my kid having access to their phone anyway, so from my perspective that wouldn't be a problem.

I think that's a little too intrusive and unnecessary tbh. Take responsibility for your own kids and things will be fine.

+1. what happened to parents' choice?

- teachers spending class time policing your kids phone usage instead of teaching mine
- kids spending all of their free time panting games instead of being available to socialize healthfully with my child, even during downtime
- kids not listening/paying attention in class so not creating a vibrant academic environment
- kids being mean/bullying on phones that is hurtful to my child or a distraction for my child’s friend group

Just the start. Feel free to add.

You all are selfish idiots if you think parental choice will create a healthy environment for kids in APS.

So ironic that the same people who insisted on parents choice for masking - nevermind the health risks to the other kids - now want to take away phones from OTHER kids because of the, wait for it, claimed impact on THEIR OWN CHILD.

You are an idiot. Those of us who want phones out of schools aren’t the same subset of parents who wanted masks. I hated masking and the school closing and what APS did during covid. I want your kid to have to have his or her phone away during school hours to stop wasting my kid and the teachers time. He can watch YouTube all day without it at school and will live.

[Anonymous]

DP but lol that would be whizzed right over PP’s head. Why should masking be optional at a parent’s choice, even though it actually involves a real health risk, but a cell phone policy should be imposed to ban all phones regardless of parental choice? Hypocrite much hmm

[Anonymous]

This sounds like the work of APE tbh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP but lol that would be whizzed right over PP’s head. Why should masking be optional at a parent’s choice, even though it actually involves a real health risk, but a cell phone policy should be imposed to ban all phones regardless of parental choice? Hypocrite much hmm

I am the PP and lol I enjoyed this too. The responder completely made my point. Those APEs never were that smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like the work of APE tbh

It is the work of APE! APE has been lobbying hard for the cell ban, cherry picking data as usual. They want to go back to the good old days of the 1980s. They are triggered by tech, brings them back to the covid locktown. They need to get their anxiety in check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like the work of APE tbh

It is the work of APE! APE has been lobbying hard for the cell ban, cherry picking data as usual. They want to go back to the good old days of the 1980s. They are triggered by tech, brings them back to the covid locktown. They need to get their anxiety in check.

Cherry picking data? What data supports your position of phones in schools? Please post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like the work of APE tbh

Yes, APE is so powerful they convinced FCPS to adopt a policy just last year. Their influence is everywhere!