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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In theory, they are banned aren’t they?  At my kids MS, the teachers will take them if they see them.  My daughter has even had it confiscated in the hallway when she took it out to check to see if I’d responded to one of her texts.  It’s one reason the kids all cluster in the bathroom on their phones.

I think the issue is more enforcement.  Especially the Hs teachers don’t want to be in a position of getting into a power struggle with some teen over their phone.  If the teacher tries to confiscate the phone and the student refuses, are they gojng to suspend a student over that?  Call the parents?

The phone issue is just sooooo not a big issue for me.  I’d much rather the teachers have a functional way to clear the halls of disruptive students and confiscate vape pens.  Banning the phones just increases the bathroom problem, as certain kids will spend the day  is sitting in the stalls scrolling tiktok.

I’d be curious on the perspective of the HS teachers.[/quote]

Do you even hear yourself? Of course its soooooo not a big issue for you-you're not the one in the classroom dealing with the problem. Until you sign up to sub or become a teacher, don't comment on issues that don't actually affect you. Your opinion on the matter is irrelevant. [/quote]

I did mean as a parent and I don’t mean to be disrespectful to the teachers—that’s why I’d like their views.  But my understanding is that HS teachers do NOT want to be in charge in enforcing these bans, but do want help on clearing kids out of the hallways during class time and banning things like vape use in school.  The latter two are my priority.  A lot of my kids’ teachers say that is is fine to use your phone once you’ve finished a test (while other kids are taking it), or if the teacher is providing time in class to work on an assignment that the teen has already finished.  In a lot of my teens’ classes, that is probably once a week.

I guess my larger point was that MCPs already forbids phones in school and the respectful kids obey when the teacher tells them to put it away.  The real issue is that some kids don’t listen, whether that has to do with phones or with vapes or ditching class.  I don’t think the teachers have any tools to deal with those kids, and I’m not sure there’s an easy answer to that.  I think the priority to things like suspension should be first on the kids that are smoking week and disrupting classes by being loud in the hallways during class.[/quote]

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