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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This policy already exists, teachers are powerless because they can't confiscate phones anymore and students become violent when pushed.[/quote]

90% of the time, I can get the kid to surrender the phone until the end of my class. The alternative is that I call security which would require parent contact to get the phone back.

This was the first year that I encountered multiple students with decoy phones.[/quote]

Parents need to be contacted and should have to come into the office and speak with an Administrator.  It will be inconvenient at first but definitely start to curb the overall behavior.

Put out an announcement before school starts telling about policy and consequence [b]then enforce[/b].[/quote]

You must spend some time in a classroom/your kid's classes before you say this so simply. [/quote]

I have which is why I say it needs to happen.  Some of the very parents here on DCUM who think phones in schools is not a problem would sign a different tune if they sat in the corner of a MS/HS classroom for a week and really observed. Heck they might even notice that their little angel wasn’t as angelic as previously thought.

Enforcement of phones in lockers/out of site in backpacks or in a lock bag during school hours should be a policy that is actively enforced.  Would it make teachers and administrators jobs more difficult for a time at the beginning of this coming SY? Absolutely. Would it be worth it for the long run of teaching, learning, and kids learning to manage life without constant distraction? Absolutely.[/quote]

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