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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t like phone bans for hs. I have a recent grad and there were times we needed to be in touch and going through the school office would have been a pain. If you are just about ready to be in real world then the real world includes phones. I totally get bands for younger years but not hs. I also think it will drive kids to overuse phones after school. I have come to believe being too strict on anything has unintended consequence.[/quote]

I'm with you. If there is an emergency I want my kid to have the phone in his bag. 
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I'm a teacher and have a basket in the front of the room for any phones I see come out.[/b] Otherwise they can keep them in their bags. I find laptops to be more troublesome! [/quote]

As a parent - I'm not expecting phones in the classroom to be a problem - as you say - teachers/school can say all phones turned in at the classroom door.  The reason I like this ban is that there will be no phones in between classes and during free periods.  Not because of time management for work....but because of socialization between kids. Having the phones away hopefully means they'll speak to one another face to face (at least at school).  Hopefully it doesn't mean they turn to a computer instead to play games or text there.[/quote]

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