Parent advocates who lobbied for Away All Day phone policy feel blindsided, ignored by new MCPS phone policy

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, this whole phone thread is delulu.

HS kids use their phones for all the same things adults do - arrange meetings, complete work, stay on schedule, arrange transportation, stay connected to work opportunities, and use in emergencies, etc. I would no more expect my kid to go without a phone than I would do myself.

Also, my kid’s school has had 2 serious lockdowns due to shooter threats. I want my kids to have a phone with them at all times in case of emergency - even during the school day.

what will a phone do in this situation?

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Anonymous wrote:Do these advocates even have HSers?

I’ve had one graduate HS and now at an Ivy and another in HS currently. They absolutely need their phones. First, they don’t have lockers. Second, there is no room in the cafeteria and food is inedible so they use their phones to order food for pickup at lunch as they walk over to the restaurant to get their sandwich/salas/burrito. Third, they do have doctors appointments that they get themselves too. Fourth, they need the phone to drive (and again, no lockers). Fifth, they need the phones to check studentvue and canvass to stay on top of deadlines (no, it’s not reasonable to expect someone to handle 7 AP classes without electronic calendaring). Sixth, the phone is very useful for things like the note app to keep track of things to do. Seventh, the phone doesn’t create any moral hazard not already present with the school chrome books which have zero parental controls and on which they can also watch dumb or obscene videos.

My kids school piloted the “no phone during class time” rule this past year and it worked fine. Some of the teachers had boxes in the desks for the phones, others just required tj in the bag. It was fine.

What I’d actually like is for some enterprising student to program an app that allows the kids to know which bathrooms are open on any given day. That would be a real time saver, to avoid walking a mile plus around the school searching for someplace to pee.

These people saying no phones at lunch in HE seem like they are coming from some la la land world where there is room for the HS to eat lunch in school, and kids are turning in assignments on paper and actually have time to have conversations with their teachers, kids are having nice little conversations at lunch, etc. There are much bigger problems in McPS than phones at lunchtime for HS kids.

Those kinds of things have substantially increased at my kids' school since the all-day ban was enacted. Love it!!

Is your kid at one of the 3000 kid high schools? Without phones there’s almost no way to even find your friends to have a nice chit chat at lunch. It’s an absolute zoo. Mine will text friends things like “heading to the math review session at lunch if you want to join” or “want to meet at chipotle after school to fo over homework” or whatever. The phones don’t even work in most of the classrooms because there no signal. They are mostly using them at lunch when they are off campus or maybe during a passing period when they happen to pass near a door.

I just think the parent advocacy groups are being unreasonable. If the issue is screen addiction, the kids are just going to be watching videos on their chromebooks. My older HS student had an iPad they used to organize all their class notes … is that better or worse than a phone? It’s really just a big phone! It was totally critical to being able to manage and balance their assignments and notes for class.

For MS and ES, stronger bans make sense.

Wow. That's a sad tale. How did kids a mere 20 years ago ever survive?! Were they all aimlessly wandering around their schools with no way to "chit chat" at lunch? How did they ever make plans? No possible way to be able to manage and balance their assignments and notes for class without a $500 tablet?

We had pay phones.

You used a pay phone to find your friends at lunch or meet up at a math review session?

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

It’s not “severe” anything if you went to Yale.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

seriously...what disability requires that a personal cell phone must be used during school hours?

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Anonymous wrote:Do these advocates even have HSers?

I’ve had one graduate HS and now at an Ivy and another in HS currently. They absolutely need their phones. First, they don’t have lockers. Second, there is no room in the cafeteria and food is inedible so they use their phones to order food for pickup at lunch as they walk over to the restaurant to get their sandwich/salas/burrito. Third, they do have doctors appointments that they get themselves too. Fourth, they need the phone to drive (and again, no lockers). Fifth, they need the phones to check studentvue and canvass to stay on top of deadlines (no, it’s not reasonable to expect someone to handle 7 AP classes without electronic calendaring). Sixth, the phone is very useful for things like the note app to keep track of things to do. Seventh, the phone doesn’t create any moral hazard not already present with the school chrome books which have zero parental controls and on which they can also watch dumb or obscene videos.

My kids school piloted the “no phone during class time” rule this past year and it worked fine. Some of the teachers had boxes in the desks for the phones, others just required tj in the bag. It was fine.

What I’d actually like is for some enterprising student to program an app that allows the kids to know which bathrooms are open on any given day. That would be a real time saver, to avoid walking a mile plus around the school searching for someplace to pee.

These people saying no phones at lunch in HE seem like they are coming from some la la land world where there is room for the HS to eat lunch in school, and kids are turning in assignments on paper and actually have time to have conversations with their teachers, kids are having nice little conversations at lunch, etc. There are much bigger problems in McPS than phones at lunchtime for HS kids.

Those kinds of things have substantially increased at my kids' school since the all-day ban was enacted. Love it!!

Is your kid at one of the 3000 kid high schools? Without phones there’s almost no way to even find your friends to have a nice chit chat at lunch. It’s an absolute zoo. Mine will text friends things like “heading to the math review session at lunch if you want to join” or “want to meet at chipotle after school to fo over homework” or whatever. The phones don’t even work in most of the classrooms because there no signal. They are mostly using them at lunch when they are off campus or maybe during a passing period when they happen to pass near a door.

I just think the parent advocacy groups are being unreasonable. If the issue is screen addiction, the kids are just going to be watching videos on their chromebooks. My older HS student had an iPad they used to organize all their class notes … is that better or worse than a phone? It’s really just a big phone! It was totally critical to being able to manage and balance their assignments and notes for class.

For MS and ES, stronger bans make sense.

Wow. That's a sad tale. How did kids a mere 20 years ago ever survive?! Were they all aimlessly wandering around their schools with no way to "chit chat" at lunch? How did they ever make plans? No possible way to be able to manage and balance their assignments and notes for class without a $500 tablet?

We had pay phones.

You used a pay phone to find your friends at lunch or meet up at a math review session?

DP - no, if I couldn't find my friends at lunch, I looked for them, asked others if they'd seen them, etc. Typically we'd make plans earlier for where and when to meet up, whether that be for lunch, math review, whatever. If I missed out, oh well.

The idea that not immediately being able to reach your friends and have the hangouts that you want is a problem is, itself, the problem. It's OKAY if kids are frustrated, disappointed, have to figure out a different plan. In fact, it's developmentally important that they have these experiences. There were plenty of issues being a child of the 80s/90s, they weren't halcyon days. As parents, we need to be encouraging frustration tolerance in our kids, not removing all barriers to discomfort.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

seriously...what disability requires that a personal cell phone must be used during school hours?

Glucose monitoring, for one. Medication reminders. Visual assistance for low vision and blind students.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

seriously...what disability requires that a personal cell phone must be used during school hours?

Glucose monitoring, for one. Medication reminders. Visual assistance for low vision and blind students.

How did students manage these things...oh... 15 years ago? Or children without a smart phone?

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

seriously...what disability requires that a personal cell phone must be used during school hours?

My child has social anxiety disorder and needs a personal cell phone at all hours of the school day to communicate with her friends for Chipotle meet ups and attending math review sessions during the lunch hour.

DUH.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

seriously...what disability requires that a personal cell phone must be used during school hours?

Glucose monitoring, for one. Medication reminders. Visual assistance for low vision and blind students.

Those sound legit but I don’t think what PP was talking about.

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

seriously...what disability requires that a personal cell phone must be used during school hours?

Glucose monitoring, for one. Medication reminders. Visual assistance for low vision and blind students.

None of those are phone functions.

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The phone absolutists obviously have high school children with perfect memories!

No reminders needed that there's a dentist appointment, the kid has to hurry home to let the dog out, their lunch was left on the kitchen counter, they should pick up a gallon of milk on the way home ... and so on. A text, which can be reviewed during passing or lunch is helpful for these things!

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Raise your kids to pay attention in class, people. Or sufficiently so that they get good grades. We're an ADHD family, and even my kid with severe ADHD was able to tear himself away from his phone, listen to his teachers and do the actual work. He graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA and a dozen APs.

Public schools do a lot for students, but at some point you need to live with system-wide decisions you won't like. Pull yourself together and deal with it.

Your kid doesn’t have severe ADHD.

PP you replied to. You want to see his neuropsychological results? You are being extremely offensive and have no clue about the hard work we put in, as a family, and the hard work he put in, plus the judicious use of Adderall.

Shame on you. Don't you dare minimize other people's struggles just because they have pushed themselves to achieve.

You actually minimize other people’s struggles when you claim that your kid has a “severe” neurodevelopmental disorder yet can get a 4.9 with multiple APs … and has no problem with distractions like cell phones. Lol.

DP.

It was a 4.67 and "severe" case of the zoomies, not level 3 autism.

As someone with severe adhd who went to Yale that PP should STFU—they clearly don’t know that people with adhd can have high IQ. I’m very dependent on my phone as an adult professional with adhd. It was recommended to my kid as part of their accommodations.

I totally believe you, since you clearly couldn’t get focused enough to read that 504 plans are not affected by the new policy. If you child has a 504 plan that includes use of a phone, your child can use it in class. I’m also saddened that a presumed graduate of Yale would write so poorly to not agree the introductory phrase with the subject.

No 504 plan should include use of a phone. FFS.

seriously...what disability requires that a personal cell phone must be used during school hours?

Glucose monitoring, for one. Medication reminders. Visual assistance for low vision and blind students.

None of those are phone functions.

Actually, they all are phone functions because phones can run things called "apps" that enable new features and connectivity to other devices. You see, many type-1 diabetics can use a continuous glucose sensor that sends signals to a phone to alert when glucose is dangerously low or high. It can also provide critical information in real time to parents also by transmitting the information over cellular and WiFi data service connections.