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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad to see this but as someone with a kid at an elementary school that already technically bans cell phones, good luck enforcing. At that age, the parents are giving them phones on purpose (for safety, for convenience, for both) and will help them smuggle it in.

It has been really frustrating to watch it proliferate. We're leaving the school and going to another elementary that doesn't seem to have this issue, but I don't know how you control it when the parents WANT their kids to have phones.[/quote]

There’s no “smuggling.” The students are not prohibited from physically having phones, they’re prohibited from having them on, or from holding them in their hand or pocket. So a parent who wants their kid to have a phone for emergencies or to coordinate after school wouldn’t be undermining the policy at all. [/quote]

This makes no sense. The plan is for MS and HS to have kids turn phones in or put them in pouches where they can't be used. So presumably that is also the plan for elementary. But elementary is harder because it's only a portion of the kids who have phones, and yes many of them will lie and yes many of their parents will tell them to lie. They don't want their kids to have get the phones from the office or out of a pouch in order to use them. As I said, safety/emergencies are one reason parents do this, but convenience is the other, and we're not talking about parents who are simply coordinating after school pick up. They want the convenience of being able to text their kid at 10am.

If you have not been in one of the elementary schools where this is a problem, you don't understand the cultural issue here. Simply passing a cellphone ban is not going to do it. You need community buy in and it is going to be hard to get at certain schools.[/quote]

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