No phone at school for high school

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Anonymous wrote:Phones and social media have devastated this generation.

No maga idiots have

Phones are not the issue parents are

For anyone not thinking that phones are an issue, please read "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
https://www.amazon.com/Anxious-Generation-Rewiring-Childhood-Epidemic/dp/0593655036

The research is crystal clear in that the use of smart phones has increased rates of depression, anxiety and suicide in teens in the last 5 years. Now you can argue that the issue is the parents who are providing the phones for their kids, but there seems to be a lot more awareness among parents now about the risks of smart phones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your kid's experience if they were not allowed to bring their cell phone to high school. Did they feel left out during lunch time ? What were the pros and cons

Cons - they can't add a new friend's number into their phone; they can't use the calendar feature to help them stay on task for deadlines, events, etc; they can't text you if there's a school shooting. Maybe I'm an anxious Annie but these are the things that run through my head.

I hear this all the time and it makes no sense to me - if there is a shooting, I want my kid using as much situational awareness as possible, not head down texting me! And I don’t want my kid shot because Larlo doesn’t know how silent mode works and his mom texts him about pickup at the exact wrong time and the shooter hears the beep.

Well unlike you libs I have a sniper rifle in the trunk of my car and I will come rambosave my kids*

*sarcastic internet comment made for internet purposes

In reality if there is a school shooting you will not be seeing your kids for several hours. The police will clear the school and take a headcount. You are not showing up to collect your kid during a school shooting

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son's school requires it to be kept in his locker bell to bell. He can have it at lunch. I find it is useful for him to have it with him generally, as extracurriculars and sports seem to have constant schedule changes.

Sports sports sports. How did anyone survive playing games after school without a phone.

WE HAD PHONES. They were just stuck to the ground and you needed a quarter, but I called home a lot. My teen has no access to a phone except his own.

I really hate that payphones are gone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All these schools with crazy enforcement must be private. The public’s are toothless even if there is a “policy.”

My kids public school got the yonder pouches and it’s enforced at the door. Sure kids put fake phones in there but it’s effectively the same bc they can’t be on them at all in class and any phone use is super hidden.

This is the first year with this and last 2 years was totally out of control phone use.

Ironically one of the big things that seemed to have happened bc of this is how much less social drama there has been this year. I think social media in class really amped them up

Is this middle school?