Cell phone ban in schools

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

2600 kids are not calling home every day. I almost never communicate with my kid during the school day.

Maybe there is a reason for that. Mine usually say hi at lunch or if its important for me to know.

What are the top 3 most important lunches for you to know?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

in all my years as a school kid, my mother never needed to reach me while i was at school. if she did she would call the office and the office would contact me in class.

all of you who desperately NEED to be able to get in touch with your kids at school, back off, you really don't NEED to.

We had a pay phone and called our parents as needed. Your kid isn't in activities so they don't have an altered schedule but some of ours do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Twice last year my teen texted me because they were evacuated for bomb threats. When I don’t have to worry about my kid’s safety during the school day, I’ll support a cell phone ban.

What if I told you that the kids around your kid beign allowed to have cell phones was more of a danger than the possibility of a bomb going off?

We KNOW the effect of social media on kids, we KNOW what it does to the quality of education to have kids with cell phones in the classroom (even if your little Snooky is perfect and doesn't use her phone)... it's real and very bad. It is much, much more of a threat to your kids than a bomb.

If social media is so bad, why are you on it. They can access social media from their chromebooks.

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Anonymous wrote:Twice last year my teen texted me because they were evacuated for bomb threats. When I don’t have to worry about my kid’s safety during the school day, I’ll support a cell phone ban.

What if I told you that the kids around your kid beign allowed to have cell phones was more of a danger than the possibility of a bomb going off?

We KNOW the effect of social media on kids, we KNOW what it does to the quality of education to have kids with cell phones in the classroom (even if your little Snooky is perfect and doesn't use her phone)... it's real and very bad. It is much, much more of a threat to your kids than a bomb.

If social media is so bad, why are you on it. They can access social media from their chromebooks.

Kids.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

1. Yes, it literally is the secretary’s job.
2. It happens rarely, so can easily be handled over the course of a day.
3. The bolded is one of the clearest examples of projection I have ever seen, and that’s saying something.

No it’s not the secretary’s job. Maybe for elementary but not for high school.

My child’s schedule for band and theater regularly changes so they need to call several times per week or more and what happens if the pick up time changes and the office is closed after hours. And, with sports, one off campus that’s another massive coordination. If your kids are in no activities, maybe but we had pay phones growing up. They don’t now and they cannot text or call on school laptops.

So, uninvolved parent done of our kids do need phones to coordinate rides for themselves and your kids whom we drive because you will not.

Calm down. It’s amazing how little confidence you have in your own teenagers ability to survive without a phone during the school day. It’s almost as if you have failed to allow them to develop to be a competent human being unable to handle anything without their parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

2600 kids are not calling home every day. I almost never communicate with my kid during the school day.

Maybe there is a reason for that. Mine usually say hi at lunch or if its important for me to know.

Congratulations? Some of us don't feel the need to be tethered to our children all day long. Likewise, our kids don't feel the need to text mommy at lunch. It doesn't make you a better parent. It doesn't make us lesser parents. We have jobs and lives. So do our kids. You keep trying to make everyone else sound incompetent when really you just sound like an extremely insecure person who projects your on shortcomings on everyone else in this thread.

I’m sorry you do not have a good relationship with your kids.

I’m sorry you haven’t let your kid grow up to have an independent life

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

2600 kids are not calling home every day. I almost never communicate with my kid during the school day.

Maybe there is a reason for that. Mine usually say hi at lunch or if its important for me to know.

Congratulations? Some of us don't feel the need to be tethered to our children all day long. Likewise, our kids don't feel the need to text mommy at lunch. It doesn't make you a better parent. It doesn't make us lesser parents. We have jobs and lives. So do our kids. You keep trying to make everyone else sound incompetent when really you just sound like an extremely insecure person who projects your on shortcomings on everyone else in this thread.

I’m sorry you do not have a good relationship with your kids.

DP, you are just a sad person. I feel sorry for you. Not sure how you'll cope once phones are banned, but I hope you have support.

In sorry that you prefer being hostile and name calling online vs spending time with your kids. If you were a nicer person maybe you’d have a better relationship with them. Mine know we are always there for them even just to talk. Try it.

And put your kids in activities.

Lol says the person spending time online replying to all these posts instead of spending time with their kids.

It’s not often I feel shocked at how insufferable someone is on DCUM but that poster is one of the worst and I’m a DP too

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

1. Yes, it literally is the secretary’s job.
2. It happens rarely, so can easily be handled over the course of a day.
3. The bolded is one of the clearest examples of projection I have ever seen, and that’s saying something.

No it’s not the secretary’s job. Maybe for elementary but not for high school.

My child’s schedule for band and theater regularly changes so they need to call several times per week or more and what happens if the pick up time changes and the office is closed after hours. And, with sports, one off campus that’s another massive coordination. If your kids are in no activities, maybe but we had pay phones growing up. They don’t now and they cannot text or call on school laptops.

So, uninvolved parent done of our kids do need phones to coordinate rides for themselves and your kids whom we drive because you will not.

Calm down. It’s amazing how little confidence you have in your own teenagers ability to survive without a phone during the school day. It’s almost as if you have failed to allow them to develop to be a competent human being unable to handle anything without their parent.

Let me guess you don’t have to drive your kids to school or I am driving them. If plans change I expect a text.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

2600 kids are not calling home every day. I almost never communicate with my kid during the school day.

Maybe there is a reason for that. Mine usually say hi at lunch or if its important for me to know.

Congratulations? Some of us don't feel the need to be tethered to our children all day long. Likewise, our kids don't feel the need to text mommy at lunch. It doesn't make you a better parent. It doesn't make us lesser parents. We have jobs and lives. So do our kids. You keep trying to make everyone else sound incompetent when really you just sound like an extremely insecure person who projects your on shortcomings on everyone else in this thread.

I’m sorry you do not have a good relationship with your kids.

DP, you are just a sad person. I feel sorry for you. Not sure how you'll cope once phones are banned, but I hope you have support.

In sorry that you prefer being hostile and name calling online vs spending time with your kids. If you were a nicer person maybe you’d have a better relationship with them. Mine know we are always there for them even just to talk. Try it.

And put your kids in activities.

Lol says the person spending time online replying to all these posts instead of spending time with their kids.

It’s not often I feel shocked at how insufferable someone is on DCUM but that poster is one of the worst and I’m a DP too

That poster is insufferable to complain about phones and social media when they are on their their phone for social media.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

2600 kids are not calling home every day. I almost never communicate with my kid during the school day.

Maybe there is a reason for that. Mine usually say hi at lunch or if its important for me to know.

Congratulations? Some of us don't feel the need to be tethered to our children all day long. Likewise, our kids don't feel the need to text mommy at lunch. It doesn't make you a better parent. It doesn't make us lesser parents. We have jobs and lives. So do our kids. You keep trying to make everyone else sound incompetent when really you just sound like an extremely insecure person who projects your on shortcomings on everyone else in this thread.

I’m sorry you do not have a good relationship with your kids.

I’m sorry you haven’t let your kid grow up to have an independent life

How do you expect them to get to school, activities and more? Not everyone in mcps gets buses and they have after school stuff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

2600 kids are not calling home every day. I almost never communicate with my kid during the school day.

Maybe there is a reason for that. Mine usually say hi at lunch or if its important for me to know.

Congratulations? Some of us don't feel the need to be tethered to our children all day long. Likewise, our kids don't feel the need to text mommy at lunch. It doesn't make you a better parent. It doesn't make us lesser parents. We have jobs and lives. So do our kids. You keep trying to make everyone else sound incompetent when really you just sound like an extremely insecure person who projects your on shortcomings on everyone else in this thread.

I’m sorry you do not have a good relationship with your kids.

I’m sorry you haven’t let your kid grow up to have an independent life

And your kids aren’t independent. They know they cannot count on you so I’m driving them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

I think you should try to manage your anxiety. Phones should be put away during the school day. You are harming your kids education by your inability to set phone limits.

If you are so keen on limits, why don’t you take away your own kids phone? Don’t take my kids away.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

1. Yes, it literally is the secretary’s job.
2. It happens rarely, so can easily be handled over the course of a day.
3. The bolded is one of the clearest examples of projection I have ever seen, and that’s saying something.

No it’s not the secretary’s job. Maybe for elementary but not for high school.

My child’s schedule for band and theater regularly changes so they need to call several times per week or more and what happens if the pick up time changes and the office is closed after hours. And, with sports, one off campus that’s another massive coordination. If your kids are in no activities, maybe but we had pay phones growing up. They don’t now and they cannot text or call on school laptops.

So, uninvolved parent done of our kids do need phones to coordinate rides for themselves and your kids whom we drive because you will not.

Calm down. It’s amazing how little confidence you have in your own teenagers ability to survive without a phone during the school day. It’s almost as if you have failed to allow them to develop to be a competent human being unable to handle anything without their parent.

Let me guess you don’t have to drive your kids to school or I am driving them. If plans change I expect a text.

Are you always such a black and white thinker? The point is that cell phones should not be accessible during the school day. If something changes regarding an after school activity, your child can text you after school. If an activity is canceled, I’m sure the child can ask permission to text parent or can ask to use the teacher’s phone or send you an email. No one wants your child stranded at school without a ride.
There are common sense exceptions to every policy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. I want to be able to reach my child. It’s not like they have pay phones. We’ve had issues where I needed to get my kid.

You can reach your child. You call the front office. You ask to have your child brought down to talk to them. Or, if you need to come pick your kid, you let the school know and they'll communicate that.

Your anxiety and/or entitlement are your problem. Adolescents having unlimited access to cellphones is an enormous societal problem - but it's one we can actually do something about.

Its not the secretary's job and there are 2600 students. That's not reasonable.

You are entitled and have anxiety. You also want others to parent your kids for you. You are on your phone complaining. Bizzare.

2600 kids are not calling home every day. I almost never communicate with my kid during the school day.

Maybe there is a reason for that. Mine usually say hi at lunch or if its important for me to know.

Congratulations? Some of us don't feel the need to be tethered to our children all day long. Likewise, our kids don't feel the need to text mommy at lunch. It doesn't make you a better parent. It doesn't make us lesser parents. We have jobs and lives. So do our kids. You keep trying to make everyone else sound incompetent when really you just sound like an extremely insecure person who projects your on shortcomings on everyone else in this thread.

I’m sorry you do not have a good relationship with your kids.

I think you are confusing talking to someone constantly and having a good relationship. I have a great relationship with my kids but they are pretty independent. They talk to their friends and teachers during the school day. And will text me once in a while if something comes up. If they got an A on a test or made the soccer team, they usually tell us when they get home. Using a cell phone even briefly breaks concentration for the student for several minutes. It is much better to encourage the child to be focused on the present and be fully immersed in the school environment. You don’t want to have the child who is at social activities but constantly on their phone. Staying off your phone for a prolonged period of time is a learned habit and kids need a lot of support to not be constantly tethered to their phone

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a good question. They revised the policy 2 years ago, and from what I can tell it still gives a lot of discretion to teachers/schools. I could see why it would be hard for some teachers to assert themselves, when they and the kids know that they don't technically have to prohibit them from the classroom at all times. https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=13192

First of all, it is unfair to put the burden on teachers. Many rookie teachers feel uncomfortable enforcing it and some older teachers just don’t care and don’t bother enforcing it. This creates an uneven landscape in school which can be confusing for some students. Second, if teachers have to play cell phone police, 5-15 minutes of every class is wasted trying to get kids to put their phones away as there are always a few repeat offenders or kids who will argue about putting it away or insist that mom is about to call for an emergency, etc. Third, at my highschool, teachers have no backup from administrators or security. We are not allowed to send kids to the office and security will not do anything unless there is a fight in the classroom or someone is visibly intoxicated. We have also been told by the principal that we are not allowed to touch student cell phones or take them due to liability concerns. This means that if a kid refuses to put their phone away, there is almost nothing that we can do. Admin tell us to call home if a kid is non-compliant. I have called home and either the parent is non-responsive or they take their kid’s side and claim I am unfairly targeting their child. Sometimes the parent agrees with me and the kid is compliant for the next 3-4 days and then we repeat the entire cycle again. It is an exhausting and draining process that negatively affects teaching for the entire class

I don’t understand how changing the policy will fix any of that. The current policy allows you to ban them, but the problem is enforcing is time consuming and your admin doesn’t help. But changing the policy won’t magically give you someone in your class to enforce it, or change your admin, will it? The issue seems to be that admin isn’t supportive of teachers attempts to control students. Fix that.

🙄 I think the teacher’s point is obvious. By creating a cell phone ban, MCPS will be acknowledging that phones are a huge problem in schools. The expectation is that if they actually create the cell phone ban, there will be consequences that go along with it. Right now everyone knows that MCPS does not care. Administration at many schools is weak and scared of combative parents and students but if central office says this is a big issue and they lay out guidelines, then administrators are more likely to pay attention. This is not a problem that teachers can handle alone