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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Write to the school board about the ridiculous pouches.  A shoe holder is much less expensive, doesn't but a financial burden on parents for damaged of lost goods and allows phones to be accessed, if necessary.  Yondr is a gross misuse of taxpayer funds.

And, yes, you can buy a magnet on Amazon.  Put Neodymium into the search bar.[/quote]

Shoe holders are ridiculous.  They don't prevent phone use in hallways, bathrooms, lunch time, etc . . . Phones get stolen regularly from them.  Every class loses time spent checking that every kid's phone is there.  Kids regularly have decoy phones that they put in the shoe holders.  There really are no positives. [/quote]

If the justification for the pouches is that kids aren't paying attention in class, why are we trying to regulate phone use at lunch? Shoe holders are $20/teacher and Yondr is at least $18/kid (they go for more like $200 online so who knows what APS actually paid). The Yondr pouch can be gamed with a decoy phone to exactly the same extent as the shoe holder so it is confusing to me why we are engaging in expensive overkill. If parents want their kids to not have a phone during non-instructional time, deal with that as a parent. The school's jurisdiction is instructional time and that is easily addressed with the shoe holder.[/quote]

It’s not just about class it’s about the impact social media and bullying on line has on their mental health and it’s about them staring at their phones instead of interacting with their peers.  The phones are obviously also cameras which causes many issues which if you don’t know about that don’t know what to say.  Use your imagination.

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Yes, but my point is those phone issues are parenting issues. Banning phones at school doesn't stop bullying or social media issues. They can do all that at home, and frankly the kids can figure out how to do that on a FCPS-issued laptop. I watched my school present a Yondr-branded PowerPoint blaming cell phones for depression and suicide. Cell phones are a factor but hardly the only issue. Blaming all of society's ills on cell phone usage in school is specious and it is doubly specious to assert that Yondr will cure these woes. APS and FCPS are Yondr suckers.[/quote]

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