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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm teaching a fifth grade class right now and four or five students already have their phones out and I can't do anything about it, really. It does make teaching considerably harder.[/quote]

Why can't you take the phone away from them until dismissal?[/quote]

You can set up parental controls so the phone is limited to emergency calls during school hours. Not sure why you want MCPS to parent your kids.[/quote]

Please for the love of God stop!

Stop!

We all know phones are terribly addictive. Listen to the teachers who say they make teaching/learning so hard.

Ban the phones in high school.  Everything would improve. Kids would talk to each other again. Now there are teens with hoods up and masks on and earbuds in who are so incredibly disengaged.

We know the right thing to do. Parents, please encourage your schools to do it![/quote]

Kids need phones for safety.  It’s not like there are pay phones. [/quote]

This is false. Your child does not need a phone … in my English classroom! At lunch! It’s parents like you that make me sigh- we will never be able to enforce a ban on phones in schools if you cling to this nonsense. There is a phone in the office. Adults in the buildings are walking around carrying phones. Your STUDENT does not need a phone at school. Full stop. [/quote]

You sound like a bad teacher who can’t relate to kids or the dangerous world they live in. Retire already because you have no idea what is going on. Kids can’t get to a phone in the office if they are hiding in a bathroom stall so they don’t get beat up. I’m guessing won’t come to their rescue either. [b]Honestly they can’t even access bathrooms these days because school is so dangerous[/b]. You are out of touch and I’m guessing not a popular teacher. [/quote]

OMG what kind of school do your kid go to? I'm a teacher in a school in a poor school district in an area with medium-ish crime, and there is some pretty intense inter-personal conflict among the students, and not one of my students is afraid to go to the bathroom. I know because they all constantly ask to go! And you know what they're sometimes doing in the bathroom? Making tiktoks. :)

Really, schools are safe places to be. There are very stringent rules about who can enter and students know they will get in big trouble if they fight, or even bring a fake weapon. We don't need an SRO. This is very different from the lives of the students before and after school hours. There are some schools that are unsafe, obviously, but they are still safer than their lives in the outside world. Along with rules about who can and can't enter, they have metal detectors and SROs. [/quote]

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