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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you should advocate to ACPS to let your kids use the front office phone in one-off emergencies instead of lugging around an $500-1200 cellphone? Because we all know which schools/student bodies creates these issues.

(It is not the ones who can’t afford them.)[/quote]

I agree with you that just using the office phone would be much better, and students should be able to do that.  But I’m trying to point out that not all school systems are amenable to such things.  I don’t know what you’re getting at with the rest of your comment.[/quote]

Smartphones are expensive. Poor kids aren't causing the problem. It's middle class parents giving phones to their entitled kids too early.[/quote]

I assure you that students from all backgrounds have phones.

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I assure you that the problems with smartphones are caused by (mostly white and privileged) parents raising entitled kids.[/quote]

Oh god.  Seriously?  Everything has to be a race issue?  This is a kid issue.  Cell phones are addictive to teens.  Period.  If you want have to a fight about which kids are worse behaved on phones, you are as stupid as your post sounds.   You are distracting from an issue that affects all of our children with race baiting.  Please go away.  [/quote]

Easy solution: Keep those phones at home! Be the change you want to see in the world![/quote]

DP here. My honors kids with phones have straight A’s and way too much time to kill at school. Maybe instead the school should focus on not teaching to the lowest common denominator. [b]I have no problem with them going on their phone if they have done all of today’s work and all of tomorrow’s too, which is a regular occurrence.[/b][/quote]

Whoever is the poster today who is demanding that all of these perfect parents homeschool, you're hilarious! I'm jumping on your bandwagon instead of APE trolls on the thread today.

This one needs to homeschool too since they obviously know more than APS teachers, administrators and leadership. Go forth, stay home and leave the rest of us alone![/quote]

You and I have VERY different values.  Glad your kid has straight As.   In what grade?   I’ve got bright kids too.  And I want your kids off their phones in school. They can melt their brains all day long on your time and I could care less.  [/quote]

DP here. 12th and 9th. The teachers need to do better. My kids are never on their phones when they have work to do. Never. Only when bored with nothing to do. In fact they rarely have homework because so much of their work is completed in school. Sometimes near the end of the quarter they will take entire days off of school because teachers will announce in advance they are giving “catch up days” to all the kids with missing work. And my kids aren’t geniuses. Just smart kids who focus and do their work. The teachers just don’t give enough work - the bar is way too low because of all the lazy kids. So if we are going to ban phones, teachers need to provide work that takes the kids the whole block, and those who don’t finish can do it at home, rather than my kids staring at the wall waiting for them. [/quote]

Have them bring a book to read when they finish their work. They can enjoy what they are reading and not be distracting others looking at a phone.

I am not sure why this is hard.[/quote]

You think you have this all figured out? Well, my kid tried that once and the teacher confiscated the book! [/quote]

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