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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that these systems only work if you assume every kid has a phone.  Because if kids can just say they don't have one, then many of them will say that, which defeats the point, because the kids who will admit they have them are the rule followers who would leave them in their backpack in the first place.[/quote]
No solution is perfect. Doesn't mean you don't try it.

If the kid says they don't have one, and they are caught with one, it should go to the admin's office.[/quote]

But that's the policy now. And it doesn't work. Because admin doesn't do anything. And parents pitch a fit that their child's phone was taken. The good kids will follow the rules and the rule breakers will continue to do what they've always done. Literally nothing will change.

Additionally, the cell phones are a significantly bigger problem at the high school level where there was no off and away policy last year. They were allowed to have theirs out and it was a daily battle. The middle schoolers, by and large, responded very well to the off and away policy because it was pushed county wide and there was no time ever the were allowed to have it out, even at lunch. This pilot program should have been rolled out at the high school level where phone use runs rampant. [/quote]

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I don’t think all MSs had off and away applicable all day long. At ours I think you could use between classes and at lunch. [/quote]

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