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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS is testing the pouch because kids can’t be trusted to put the phones away and keep them away. They are addicted, just as many of their parents are addicted.

In my day, before smartphones were everywhere, if a teacher or hall monitor saw you on your phone, it would be seized and sent to the principals office where you could retrieve it at the end of the day. After a certain number of strikes, your parent would be required to come in and pick it up for you. Parent couldn’t make it to school that day? Tough.

That quaint approach wouldn’t work nowadays, because phones are everywhere and there are a lot of mommies that can’t cut the apron strings and think their kids are special and should be exempt. If you expect teachers to teach, stop expecting them to be the phone police. The pouches are clumsy and expensive, but they set up the classroom for success. Kids who actually need their phones for legitimate ongoing reasons, like to control an insulin pump, will still have them handy. Kids who “need” their phones for security blanket purposes will just have to deal with their issues like people did 20 years ago. [/quote]
Exactly. If parents would back up admin instead of cussing them out when they took phones we wouldn't need pouches, but here we are.[/quote]

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