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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Long time HS teacher here and this is how it’s going to play out with older kids.  There will be meetings during the teacher workdays and we will need to have something in the syllabus.  Admin will put together some unrealistic protocol, like we need to keep track of infractions ourself, give a certain number of warnings, on the whatever time email/call parents, then on the next time write a referral.  Some teachers will stress over this and have complicated spreadsheets, write referrals only to find out no discipline happens.

Nothing will change in my class.  I’ve always had a cell away rule.  It’s usually not an issue. I will contact parents if they are ever cheating on a test or being disruptive.  I will not if I see them send a quick text.  No one has time for that and most of the time, the parents are texting their own kids. [/quote]

This and admin will do nothing but expect teachers to do it all-as usual.
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Teachers will have to do their jobs, waah waah waah.  :roll: [/quote]

Not my job to deal with your kid's phone. They're free to stay on it and learn nothing while I teach those who are in my class for a good reason.[/quote]

Your lack of compassion for the other students they are disrupting is gross. [/quote]

The teachers are saying that they are prioritizing the other students by focusing on the instruction. They are de-prioritizing the unfocused, disrespectful student that won’t put their phone away.[/quote]

If teachers and their administration would enforce the existing cell phone ban, maybe these kids would learn something, too.  Rather than being written off because of the failure of the school to enforce the ban

You are blaming the students, and punishing them by letting them learn nothing, because the school is not doing its job.  Youngkin has figured this out.  But principals haven't.[/quote]

What has he figured out exactly? There is already a policy on the books, but no consequences attached. No consequences means the policy is useless. Unenforceable.

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YOU - the teacher on the spot - and the principal have total authority to decide on the consequences. Get outta here with your bs evasion that you can’t do anything because the governor didn’t tell you exactly what to do.[/quote]

No, I as the teacher have been told by admin I cannot take their phone and there’s no written consequences for them misusing the phone in the district policies so there actually is no consequences I can enforce. If I take a kid’s property and the parents come after me for it, the district won’t back me- they’ve said this to us. We can’t take their property. We can’t kick them out of class for it, or issue detention for it, or give them ISR or suspension for it. The governor didn’t include any written consequences in his decree either so we are still left where we always have been. [/quote]

Why won’t the district let you kick kids out of class or suspend them?  Suspension seems easiest—if the kid wants to be on his phone all day, let him.  He can come back to school when he’s ready to learn.[/quote]

Because districts, administrators, and schools get in hot water if there are too many suspensions or discipline referrals. [/quote]

I remember years ago when we had a staff meeting to discuss all of this. The county-wide data for blacks and/or students with IEPs getting written up was extremely high. [b]African-American students were being disproportionally written up for “issues” that white students also do all the time (like chewing gum, talking in class, misuse of materials, etc.)[/b] It was a huge county-wide problem. If there were a thousand cases, a small percentage were white or Asian.

Thus the disciplinary matrix was born.[/quote]

lol sure they were.

Because all the nice white teacher ladies in FCPS, overwhelmingly liberal Democrats, are actually racists who hate black kids.[/quote]

Feel free to FOIA the data if you like. It’s true.[/quote]

It is true they received more penalties. That does not necessarily mean they were assigned in a racist manner. It is entirely possible some groups simply commit more infractions. 
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