Yondr Pouches at Deal

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

... That is the point, she will have her technology after school in that scenario where she misses the bus. In the classroom. Teachers have personal phones and/or classroom phones if there are emergencies. The everyday downside to having cell phones in classrooms far outweighs any benefit.
Agree with PP -- somehow kids and families were able to survive without phones in the not to distant past. Our kids also could benefit from learning how to troubleshoot independently before they are off in the collagen real world. Just my two cents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

... That is the point, she will have her technology after school in that scenario where she misses the bus. In the classroom. Teachers have personal phones and/or classroom phones if there are emergencies. The everyday downside to having cell phones in classrooms far outweighs any benefit.
Agree with PP -- somehow kids and families were able to survive without phones in the not to distant past. Our kids also could benefit from learning how to troubleshoot independently before they are off in the collagen real world. Just my two cents.

Probably because bringing guns into a school and murdering multiple kids wasn't a common occurrence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

[Anonymous]

When I was younger and in school we didn't have cell phones and we survived. But we also had pay phones which no longer exist. At my school, if I missed the school bus home (only once a day so if I was running late I was screwed), I stood in the long pay phone line (there was only one!) to call my mom for a ride. I couldn't walk because I grew up in a rural area and rarely could I get a ride with someone else because everyone lived in completely different directions. We weren't allowed to use the phones in the office and I imagine that's the policy at Deal just due to the sheer amount of students. While my kid can walk home from Deal pretty easily, I can understand why other parents may worry. We don't know what dismissal will look like yet with the pouches...it may be no big deal and the worry is for nothing. Or it may cause bottlenecks where kids have to choose between making the bus and unlocking a phone. People all have their own valid worries about random things and I don't understand throwing the whole "we didn't have phones and we survived" mentality out there to shame some who are just nervous because we don't know what something will look like. And yes kids will figure it out just like us old folks did, but again there's no need to dismiss others' feelings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was younger and in school we didn't have cell phones and we survived. But we also had pay phones which no longer exist. At my school, if I missed the school bus home (only once a day so if I was running late I was screwed), I stood in the long pay phone line (there was only one!) to call my mom for a ride. I couldn't walk because I grew up in a rural area and rarely could I get a ride with someone else because everyone lived in completely different directions. We weren't allowed to use the phones in the office and I imagine that's the policy at Deal just due to the sheer amount of students. While my kid can walk home from Deal pretty easily, I can understand why other parents may worry. We don't know what dismissal will look like yet with the pouches...it may be no big deal and the worry is for nothing. Or it may cause bottlenecks where kids have to choose between making the bus and unlocking a phone. People all have their own valid worries about random things and I don't understand throwing the whole "we didn't have phones and we survived" mentality out there to shame some who are just nervous because we don't know what something will look like. And yes kids will figure it out just like us old folks did, but again there's no need to dismiss others' feelings.

deal kids are allowed to use the office phone after school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/timetables/upload/D31,32,33,34_230317.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

Addressed upthread. Twice. Keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

Addressed upthread. Twice. Keep up.

The entitlement of you people is beyond. Where did you get a memo that the bus in question was "yours"?

[Anonymous]

Petersburg outside of Richmond started this a couple of years ago, not sure the current status. One work around kids had was to use a fake phone (as in not their primary phone or even a working one) in the pouches. Or they would say they didn't bring a phone that day. So some kids still had phones, but they had to be much more discreet about using.

They had the magnetic unlocks at all the primary doors leading to busses, in the office, and the clinic. Maybe some other locations that staff could monitor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/timetables/upload/D31,32,33,34_230317.pdf

There are buses that leave from tenleytown that go to mt p every 20 min.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/timetables/upload/D31,32,33,34_230317.pdf

There are buses that leave from tenleytown that go to mt p every 20 min.

Great for people going to Mt. Pleasant, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/timetables/upload/D31,32,33,34_230317.pdf

There are buses that leave from tenleytown that go to mt p every 20 min.

Great for people going to Mt. Pleasant, I guess.

Sorry you live in Unpleasant Canyon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.

Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.

Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.

But she will have her phone after school.

No, she'll miss the bus waiting for her package to be opened. Will you give her a ride home?

So you live somewhere where there is one bus per day? Weird, if true.

https://www.wmata.com/schedules/timetables/upload/D31,32,33,34_230317.pdf

There are buses that leave from tenleytown that go to mt p every 20 min.

Great for people going to Mt. Pleasant, I guess.

Sorry you live in Unpleasant Canyon.

Sorry you got caught showing your ignorance. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, be quiet and you may learn something.