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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the research is out, phones are awful for our kids. Not to mention they never belonged in classrooms to begin with. Is there any movement by MCPS to ban phones in classrooms? What’s the best way to organize for banning phones? School by school or at the MCPS level?[/quote]

If you don’t want your child to have a phone, don’t give your child a phone. Why do you feel the need to make rules or bans for everyone else’s children? [/quote]

Why is your kid having a phone so important to you? You think they won’t survive like everyone else used to without phones? You’re a major part of the problem.[/quote]

Ok we also survived without the internet or email or Uber but like, times have changed. [/quote]

Like, no sh*t times have changed. Doesn’t mean kids need to be on cellphones during class. Doesn’t mean they need them at school. Instead of pushing us forward like the Internet and email did, phones in a classroom setting are only holding kids back and hindering learning. It’s not rocket science to understand this but apparently for you, it is.[/quote]

You’re entitled to your opinion but every parent who buys their child a phone and sends them with it to school obviously thinks the benefit outweighs the cost and that’s most people. If you disagree, don’t give your kid a phone. I haven’t found my child’s learning impacted by phones at all. Have you spent a lot of time observing this personally? How much time have you spent in the classroom making the determination that learning has been hindered and what wasn’t accomplished that would have been if the kids hadn’t had phones in their pockets?[/quote]

DP. The thing about sending your child to school is that you stop being the arbiter of what the benefits and the costs are. If you disagree with what the system determines the rules are, homeschool.[/quote]
Rules in school should be based on child wellbeing not lazy parenting. Smart Phones have no benefit to schooling or child/teen brain development at all. [/quote]

It is not lazy parenting to provide a teen who travels alone to/from school and after school activities a way to reach a parent or 911 in an emergency. There’s no need to have phones out during instruction, but also no reason to characterize teens carrying phones as lazy parenting. [/quote]

Teens have been traveling alone to and from school and activities for a looonng time.  The only thing that has changed is that now phones are readily available in kids pocket and some prevailing idea that this somehow keeps most teens safer.  Yet short of parent feels, I’ve seen no evidence that it actually keeps them safer.[/quote]

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