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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the parent of a T1 diabetic who uses her smart phone to monitor glucose, and she has it in her 504 plan that she can have her phone on her. It's important. BUT the diabetes rate in the juvenile population is like 0.002% - not even an average of 1 kid per MCPS high school. So, the BuT tHe KiDs wItH DiSaBiLitiEs!!! argument for why phones need to be allowed doesn't hold a ton of water. [/quote]

There are far more disabilities and health issues and diabetics.  If you are saying your kid should get one and only kids with diabetes, that is pretty disengenuous.  There are many reasons why kids need to contact their parents.  Parents need to try to manage these phones but MCPS needs to stop giving access to the wifi to kids outside devices as if you have them blocked on cellular, they just do it through the wifi.[/quote]

The PP mentioned diabetics because someone used diabetics as the reason why all kids need phones.  If your child has a documented medical condition or some other condition that necessitates cell phone usage during the day in excess of what is allowed by MCPS policy, that would be addressed in their IEP/504 etc.  If your kid just "needs" to contact their parents during the day, you need to figure out how to get them focused on their schoolwork so they can manage without you for a few hours.[/quote]

I am the PP who mentioned continuous glucose monitoring, and I only mentioned it because the person before me claimed there was no legitimate reason why phone could be included in a 504.

Just so we are clear on sequence.[/quote]

Accommodations only need to be reasonable. If the school has a ban on cell phones, the kid could have a different device for diabetes monitoring. The way things were done before they were linked to cell phones. No reason to bend the rules of the school for this one specific case that isn’t even necessary to do that way.[/quote]

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