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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oakton HS has no/few lockers to keep a phone in.

My kid said a teacher had a shoe pocket tree on the wall, and if they caught one student with a phone during class, the whole class had to go put their phones up, and if you didn't it was obvious who didn't as each pocket had a name on it for each period.[/quote]

Next thing you know, some kid “accidentally” takes my kid’s $1,000 Smartphone from the pocket when leaving the period. Hell no. My kid is not putting their equipment in a fu$&ing shoe tree.[/quote]

Then they should leave it at home. Easy solution.[/quote]

Nope. They need it for after school. My kid doesn’t abuse their phone and it’s not necessary for them to put it in the communal shoe tree just become some other yahoo in class can’t control themselves. The kid who is using it in class should have to put it in the shoe tree. You don’t punish the entire class for one kid’s behavior.[/quote]

Youngkin has "punished" the entire state.

Complain to him about your choice to get your DC an irreplaceable flagship phone. [/quote]

For years parents have been complaining on this page about banning cell phones at school; do they not want it anymore?[/quote]

I am the person who made the obviously sarcastic comment about the fake phone.  I am a teacher and a parent.

I absolutely want schools to figure out how to handle cell phones so they aren't used in class.  But every teacher I know who has experience with the shoe tree thing has found that it doesn't work.  There are issues with kids worrying about their phone being stolen or getting lost, there are issues with kids using fake phones, and there are issues with enforcement.  The reality is that the only solution that is going to work here is if teachers are backed up for enforcing the cell phone rule, and I feel as though this executive order is meaningless until they figure out how to do that.[/quote]

I agree with you. In regards to cell phones, this year will look just like last year.[/quote]

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