Cell phone ban in schools

[Anonymous]

I wonder if admin is able to be still hold cell phone behavior against the teachers as a means to terminate them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if admin is able to be still hold cell phone behavior against the teachers as a means to terminate them.

I think it'd be difficult for them to get away with that in this climate.

[Anonymous]

But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

[Anonymous]

Can elementary students bring cell phone to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can elementary students bring cell phone to school?

That's the one level where MCPS has been pretty strict about enforcing cell phone usage. The kids can bring them, but they have to be kept away all day during the school day. Kids can use them before and after school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

It’s not maga. It’s lazy parents who don’t control their kids phones and want others to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

and that's a good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

I would not agree to that at all. You just send in old unused phone. Tired of MCPS putting kids at risk and not giving them any type of ways to get help.

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Anonymous wrote:Add Arlington Public Schools to the list of nearby districts implementing a cell phone ban: https://wjla.com/news/local/arlington-county-public-schools-acps-cell-phone-free-policy-virginia-schools-students-teachers-learning-classroom-elementary-middle-high-school-policies-arlington-county-school-board-fairfax-county-loudoun-county-prince-william-county#

“ High school students would be mandated to keep their cell phones silenced and away during classes, but can use their devices between classes and during lunch.”

That sounds the same as current MCPS policy. The issue is that the kids are NOT putting them away during class.

Then, what are teachers and admin going to do about it. Our principal is 100% of the problem as he makes rules and then is unwilling to enforce them and finds ways to justify not implementing them. They need to bring in some tuff principals and work with parents and teachers to get things under control.

I don't disagree with you that we have weak leadership at the principal level, but I would also ask why have we built a system that relies so much on the successful leadership of one individual? This is where we need to distribute power and responsibility because right now, things are either great or horrible, depending on how good your principal is.

Correct. As a parent you decide your child’s phone usage. Stop trying to parent other people’s kids as you don’t want to parent your own and would rather the school be the bad guy.

Parents give kids their phones because schools tell parents they have cell phone policies that limit or manage phone access. But the schools are lying because the policies aren't worth the paper printed on since there is no enforcement or because some teachers enforce it while others don't.

You can't ask parents to monitor phone use when they're not in the building with their kids.

You're responding to the person whose entire livelihood depends on the existence of cellphones. He/She couldn't function without them. Neither can her kids. They love to try and call their own insecurities "good parenting" vs all the other parents. It's sad and also, slightly insane.

You need to get off social media and stop being nasty. Maybe you are not close to your kids because of how nasty you treat people and they know they cannot ask for a ride or help. No worries, your kids come to people like me instead.

You need serious help. Full stop.

You are name calling and dictating what others do without realizing others have very different lives. Mcps has no pay phones. Some of us need to communicate pick up times and such. Your kids may not be inactivities but a good way to keep them off electronics is activities and sports. Try it. And, get off your phone.

Pick-up times can be communicated before or after school, when the phones are allowed. What's the problem?

Because it often chances.

Great. So text your kid about the change and they’ll see it the minute school is over. Unless you need to pick them up early, in which case you’d have to go through the main office anyway….

You are really an uninvolved parent. To pick up from HS, you have to go 30+ minutes early to get in the pick up line. So, I would have been in line 30-45 minutes before they see it. Either way, if they do it, I'll just send in an old unused phone for them to put in the pouch or how ever it is done.

The only reason to get to the HS 30+ min early is to be at the front of the car pickup line. You don’t have to be at the front. I picked up my kids from both Blair and Northwood the last three years. If I was in the middle or at the end of the line, I had them walk until they found my car.

Exactly, you do when you have to be someone else on time.

Have your kids walk a block away and pick them up there. So much easier. Not sure how you have the time to wait 30-45 minutes every day in the carpool line

Oh honey, you don't have HS kids. Its a 2 mile rule and we are almost at 2 miles but there is no bus a block away...and its not a safe walk. You are privileged to get a bus.

Honey...no idea what you are talking about. I would never wait on a pick up line. Pick a meeting spot a short walk away and pick up there. I have done that since ES (different poster).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

I would not agree to that at all. You just send in old unused phone. Tired of MCPS putting kids at risk and not giving them any type of ways to get help.

Please list the times when your child was at real risk and needed you to rescue them during the school day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

and that's a good thing.

I didn’t say it wasn’t!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

I would not agree to that at all. You just send in old unused phone. Tired of MCPS putting kids at risk and not giving them any type of ways to get help.

You don’t have any choice. Those are rules. And anyway the suggestion that you kids are at rush if they don’t have a 24 hour a day life line to you is laughable. How did you handle school as a kid with out a cell phone? Why can’t your kids do similarly?

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Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

I would not agree to that at all. You just send in old unused phone. Tired of MCPS putting kids at risk and not giving them any type of ways to get help.

Please list the times when your child was at real risk and needed you to rescue them during the school day.

Let's see, the bomb threats, gas line leaks, and we've had a few times where they had an early release and the school didn't tell us, like testing. And, given the lack of safety, the risk is always there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But there is no cell phone ban in schools. This is just some far right maga fantasy.

Tell that to the principal at my kids middle school when they collect up all cell phones at the start of the school day as part of the ban. An actual ban. That exists. In MCPS.

I would not agree to that at all. You just send in old unused phone. Tired of MCPS putting kids at risk and not giving them any type of ways to get help.

You don’t have any choice. Those are rules. And anyway the suggestion that you kids are at rush if they don’t have a 24 hour a day life line to you is laughable. How did you handle school as a kid with out a cell phone? Why can’t your kids do similarly?

Yes, we do get the choice. And, given how MCPS is mine will always have a phone on them.