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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How will it be enforced? Bad idea to let high school kids use phones in-between classes. At my high school we already have way too many kids strolling in late to class. Now there will be an epidemic of tardy arrivals which seriously disrupts class flow and learning. MCPS and many parents are in denial of how many kids are addicted to their phones. Expecting teenagers to do the right thing and just put them away doesn’t work for most kids.[/quote]

Agree, HS should be away all day like MS.[/quote]
HS teacher here - I agree except that since high school students mostly don’t use their lockers, they have their phones with them all the time. No way to prevent usage during transitions. I do my best to get them to put phones away in class, but they still have earbuds in, text to meet friends at the bathroom, and are generally distracted by the phone. Hopefully in a few years kids coming up from MS won’t be so hopelessly addicted that they don’t know how to talk to each other. Then maybe HS teachers will have more luck getting kids to keep the phones away during class.[/quote]

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