Banning phones in school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're banned from our MCPS MS. If students use them during thr school day they get confiscated, can't get it back until dismissal.

Meanwhile, at our middle school, in theory they are only allowed to use them in lunch but they are out ALL the time.

MCPS needs a single policy and needs to empower school admin to enforce it

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Anonymous wrote:Parents are absolutely the problem and to blame. And now schools are being blamed for the poor attention, learning, and lack of meaningful socialization so they want schools to fix the issue by banning phones. Most schools already have a policy for putting phones away, but now they will have to invest in pouches and a lock boxes to manage the fix.

Meanwhile budget cuts.

Schools are blamed because:

1. They a policy on paper but don't enforce
2. Some teachers encourage phone use despite the written policy because they want to be the "cool teacher" or don't want to come up with something else to fill the down time once busywork is done
3. School systems make each individual school come up with their own way of handling the issue without giving additional resources to make enforcement effective

Private schools don't have this problem because they implement phone bans and follow through.

Schools don't have the authority to confiscate private property.

Sure they do. Schools do have the authority to set and enforce rules and confiscate items that are dangerous or get in the way of order.

Yes, but that doesn't extend to confiscating personal property. That's called theft and someone is going to press charges.

That's not theft and this is why kids are so out of control.

When a person forcibly takes your property it sure is theft. I'd report this to MCPD ASAP and press charges.

We’ve found the problem…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

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Anonymous wrote:Mine don’t have phones still, but you can’t ban them entirely. Many do need them for after-school activities, communicating where they are, work arrangements, etc

No, they don’t.

And you don’t need to be on dcum, but here you are

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No here but there is no connection.
Also, flip phones work just fine for communication with parents and are not a distraction

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Why is your kid having a phone so important to you? You think they won’t survive like everyone else used to without phones? You’re a major part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Why is your kid having a phone so important to you? You think they won’t survive like everyone else used to without phones? You’re a major part of the problem.

At our HS the kids are expected to use them for different groups and classes. And, use their student ID on their phone. I want to know where my child is and to be able to communicate with them. There are no more pay phones in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Schools make rules for all children in attendance. You give to the right to decide what the rules are for your kids when you put them in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

You want to know where your child is at?!? At school!
Why is your kid having a phone so important to you? You think they won’t survive like everyone else used to without phones? You’re a major part of the problem.

At our HS the kids are expected to use them for different groups and classes. And, use their student ID on their phone. I want to know where my child is and to be able to communicate with them. There are no more pay phones in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Why is your kid having a phone so important to you? You think they won’t survive like everyone else used to without phones? You’re a major part of the problem.

At our HS the kids are expected to use them for different groups and classes. And, use their student ID on their phone. I want to know where my child is and to be able to communicate with them. There are no more pay phones in school.

Yeah, you’re probably the parent that constantly texts them during class. Again, the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Serious question: do you monitor your child's screen time during the school day? I ask because the parents who are adamant about their kids having cell phones in school usually also have kids who average 5-6 hours per day during school hours and text their kids constantly throughout the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Nailed it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Because many parents want the county to parent for them. They are lazy and don't make any effort to raise their kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children?

Serious question: do you monitor your child's screen time during the school day? I ask because the parents who are adamant about their kids having cell phones in school usually also have kids who average 5-6 hours per day during school hours and text their kids constantly throughout the day.

Yes, it's easy to set up parental controls which only allows them to make calls (for an emergency) during school hours.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Parents are absolutely the problem and to blame. And now schools are being blamed for the poor attention, learning, and lack of meaningful socialization so they want schools to fix the issue by banning phones. Most schools already have a policy for putting phones away, but now they will have to invest in pouches and a lock boxes to manage the fix.

Meanwhile budget cuts.

Schools are blamed because:

1. They a policy on paper but don't enforce
2. Some teachers encourage phone use despite the written policy because they want to be the "cool teacher" or don't want to come up with something else to fill the down time once busywork is done
3. School systems make each individual school come up with their own way of handling the issue without giving additional resources to make enforcement effective

Private schools don't have this problem because they implement phone bans and follow through.

Schools don't have the authority to confiscate private property.

Sure they do. Schools do have the authority to set and enforce rules and confiscate items that are dangerous or get in the way of order.

Yes, but that doesn't extend to confiscating personal property. That's called theft and someone is going to press charges.

Students agree to follow the code of conduct. When they break the code of conduct, that's on the student, not the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They're banned from our MCPS MS. If students use them during thr school day they get confiscated, can't get it back until dismissal.

wow I'm shocked that some parents didn't complain about this and raise a stink to CO. What MS is this?

I wish our HS did this.

Phones are banned during the school day at our MCPS MS and the parents were really supportive. It’s something they had been asking for actually. I wasn’t sure how to feel about it at first (I don’t like the idea of not being able to contact my child in an emergency) but DC said it’s actually caused so much less drama than last year and the kids don’t seem to mind. It was a non-issue once they got used to it.

It seems that it’s a school policy now but it wouldn’t shock me if it becomes an mcps policy eventually.