New cell phone policy for 2026-2027

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eh - if I need my kid to know something I just send him an email through his school gmail. I have the password and it's how we communicated when he was at before he got a phone. I send him an email as him to himself with reminders etc.

How do you do that? I tried logging into the school account as a regular gmail and wasn't allowed to.

If you have your child's FCPS account information, you can log in as them ([e-mail] and then use their password) and send a message to them as them. I've done this before, too.

It’s a pain in the butt. Kids may not see it in time. Want to be able to send a quick text.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh - if I need my kid to know something I just send him an email through his school gmail. I have the password and it's how we communicated when he was at before he got a phone. I send him an email as him to himself with reminders etc.

How do you do that? I tried logging into the school account as a regular gmail and wasn't allowed to.

If you have your child's FCPS account information, you can log in as them ([e-mail] and then use their password) and send a message to them as them. I've done this before, too.

It’s a pain in the butt. Kids may not see it in time. Want to be able to send a quick text.

You need help.

[Anonymous]

Then ban all personal devices at school. Because a kid using their MacBook will have all of the media and texting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eh - if I need my kid to know something I just send him an email through his school gmail. I have the password and it's how we communicated when he was at before he got a phone. I send him an email as him to himself with reminders etc.

How do you do that? I tried logging into the school account as a regular gmail and wasn't allowed to.

If you have your child's FCPS account information, you can log in as them ([e-mail] and then use their password) and send a message to them as them. I've done this before, too.

It’s a pain in the butt. Kids may not see it in time. Want to be able to send a quick text.

You need help.

Good kids shouldn’t be punished. They should be allowed to send texts to parents at lunch period.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh - if I need my kid to know something I just send him an email through his school gmail. I have the password and it's how we communicated when he was at before he got a phone. I send him an email as him to himself with reminders etc.

How do you do that? I tried logging into the school account as a regular gmail and wasn't allowed to.

If you have your child's FCPS account information, you can log in as them ([e-mail] and then use their password) and send a message to them as them. I've done this before, too.

It’s a pain in the butt. Kids may not see it in time. Want to be able to send a quick text.

You need help.

Good kids shouldn’t be punished. They should be allowed to send texts to parents at lunch period.

But why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh - if I need my kid to know something I just send him an email through his school gmail. I have the password and it's how we communicated when he was at before he got a phone. I send him an email as him to himself with reminders etc.

How do you do that? I tried logging into the school account as a regular gmail and wasn't allowed to.

If you have your child's FCPS account information, you can log in as them ([e-mail] and then use their password) and send a message to them as them. I've done this before, too.

It’s a pain in the butt. Kids may not see it in time. Want to be able to send a quick text.

You need help.

Good kids shouldn’t be punished. They should be allowed to send texts to parents at lunch period.

Why? Why do they need to text parents?

Cut the cord. They're fine without being in contact with you during the school day.

[Anonymous]

Here’s my prediction. This is not going to be enforced at all. Come back in November and ask us how it’s going and it’s going to be the exact same as this year. This is a great law for people who have spent zero time in schools. It’s completely not enforceable for HS. The same amount of kids will have dummy phones. Teachers and admin will get lax on rules. Most kids will keep them off and away and it won’t be an issue. Over time, we will go on about our lives, try to get back to actually teaching students, and there will be a new hot topic. - HS teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s my prediction. This is not going to be enforced at all. Come back in November and ask us how it’s going and it’s going to be the exact same as this year. This is a great law for people who have spent zero time in schools. It’s completely not enforceable for HS. The same amount of kids will have dummy phones. Teachers and admin will get lax on rules. Most kids will keep them off and away and it won’t be an issue. Over time, we will go on about our lives, try to get back to actually teaching students, and there will be a new hot topic. - HS teacher

+1 they cannot enforce this at lunch. It’s bs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh - if I need my kid to know something I just send him an email through his school gmail. I have the password and it's how we communicated when he was at before he got a phone. I send him an email as him to himself with reminders etc.

How do you do that? I tried logging into the school account as a regular gmail and wasn't allowed to.

If you have your child's FCPS account information, you can log in as them ([e-mail] and then use their password) and send a message to them as them. I've done this before, too.

It’s a pain in the butt. Kids may not see it in time. Want to be able to send a quick text.

You need help.

Good kids shouldn’t be punished. They should be allowed to send texts to parents at lunch period.

Oh girl, You have no idea what your child is doing on his phone, or what his friends are showing him on their phones. That goes for girls, too.

[Anonymous]

Lots of teens on tonight.

[Anonymous]

Great! I hope the school offices staff up to handle all of the “messages” that need to get to the kids - like ride home with Susie today because I got stuck at work.

Messages are called into the office and then delivered to the classroom back in my day of FCPS. Can’t wait for how FCPS handles this change

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great! I hope the school offices staff up to handle all of the “messages” that need to get to the kids - like ride home with Susie today because I got stuck at work.

Messages are called into the office and then delivered to the classroom back in my day of FCPS. Can’t wait for how FCPS handles this change

Our giant school has a dozen “office assistant” TAs who run around delivering notes once in a blue moon but most just sit in the corner scrolling on their laptop for the period. They have plenty of bandwidth to deliver messages.

They made it work 20 years ago, they can make it work again next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS high schools already have this rule this year. There’s a place kids can go to have their phone unlocked during lunch if they need to contact their parent or employer or something. It’s been fine.

Ok so kids can use their phone during lunch. Totally different.

They can stand in that room and use them briefly, then must lock them back up to leave the room and go to lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS high schools already have this rule this year. There’s a place kids can go to have their phone unlocked during lunch if they need to contact their parent or employer or something. It’s been fine.

Ok so kids can use their phone during lunch. Totally different.

They can stand in that room and use them briefly, then must lock them back up to leave the room and go to lunch.

I posted that this is all made by people who have never been in schools. This won’t happen. They might actually try to buy lockboxes or pouches, because they like to waste money. Middle and HS students will put in a fake phone, just like they do now for the militant teachers who collect them, and keep their real phone.

No one will be patrolling the cafeteria looking for cell phones. There are much bigger issues in a school. -hs teacher again

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Now high school kids can’t even use their phone at lunch. Are you kidding me?? How ridiculous.

Great idea. The less they use their devices, the better. It’s a privilege, not a right.

Their lunch is their free time. Teachers are on their phones all fu$king day at school.

How many times do you people have to be told that TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ARE NOT EQUALS.

Teachers are adults whose frontal lobes are fully developed. Students are children who are still developing the ability to use their brains.

Stop comparing teachers and children.

Schools either have universal rules and values (about presence, phones, accountability for following policy) or kids and teens don’t take them seriously because adult being huge hypocrites is extremely obvious to kids— particularly teens.

Plenty of workplaces don’t allow phones so this isn’t about teachers not being treated like adults.