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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think an outright ban has enough political consensus to pass.

As it stands, MCPS has a toothless cell phone policy which SAYS kids aren't supposed to use them during class and only before, after school and lunch. But they have no way to enforce it so they do what they want and when they want.

I don't know what the solution is, [b]because turning teachers into the cell phone police doesn't work either[/b]. So we're stuck with the current state of affairs unless someone can come up with a solution that the majority of parents, teachers, students and administrators can tolerate. Which has been pretty much Mission Impossible for the last decade.[/quote]

Op here and I agree with this. Because when I was in school, only a handful had beepers  but now almost every kid has a phone. It’s not fair to turn teachers into electronic police. I’m just work shopping solutions to these ever-growing problems given this morning’s security communication.[/quote]
Which is why I stated that the BOE has to implement the policy of no phone in class.  The phone pouches are a good way to do this.  The teachers can have the device to unlock their phones in case of an emergency.  Otherwise, the kids have their phones but cannot use them as they are locked in the pouch.[/quote]

If they can't use them, the benefit to having them is gone. Children need to learn how to manage phone use. They learn that by practicing it at a young age when stakes are lower than when they get their first job and get fired because they can't control their own phone use. [/quote]
I can't tell if this is a serious post.

They can learn it from their parents at home, not at school. Teachers aren't parents, right?

If they can't manage it as an adult, then that's a parenting failure, and too bad for said young adult. Natural consequences.[/quote]

PP and yes I’m serious. I think kids should learn when they are young how to cope with tech young rather than be thrown to the wolves when they leave home.

Also I didn’t post this earlier but I got my child a cell phone in ES after an MCPS teacher abused my child and others. Kids reported it to parents and parents complained. She was able to convince administrators kids were lying for months before a parent confronted her and got her to acknowledge her abuse in an email. An example is my child needed medical treatment because the teacher punished her by denying bathroom access, which caused her to go in her pants which then caused her to be teased and bullied.

A single kid with a cell phone could have stopped most of this teacher’s abuse. Oh and the teacher was disciplined but is still in MCPS.[/quote]

Agree, this far outweighs the negatives to me. Further, parents can parent. They have options like setting a phone in school mode. It's the same old cranks who expect MCPS to raise their kids who are pushing this.[/quote]

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