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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]Here's an idea. Buy a few yondr pouches for each school. Kid is caught using their phone during the school day, it goes in the yondr pouch for the rest of the day. Kid is caught using it a second time, goes in the pouch every day for a month. Third time, yondr pouch for the rest of the year. This should satisfy the "what about a school shooter" objectors. Teach your kid if they want the privilege of using their phone during a school shooter, never get caught using it before then. It would also give kid one "free" use of their phone because pouch for a day no big deal--but better save up that one free use for when you really need it. [/quote]

This would require common sense, clearly the district has zero common sense. [/quote]

Guys it’s a PILOT. That’s what they’re trying to figure out - how to do it best countywide. They didn’t already buy 215,000 pouches[/quote]

If they were ACTUALLY interested in figuring out the best way they’d be collecting data on phone usage for at least a few months with no intervention, with current (last school years) intervention, and they’d have different phases of novel intervention across different schools trying different methods- not just a pouch. They would stagger interventions within and across schools. Then they’d actually look at what works and what doesn’t work and choose based on the data.

This is just a slow roll out for Yondr.

Probably to line someone’s pockets.[/quote]

They already have that information from the last school year.

SMH [/quote]

I’m waiting to see it posted on the website.[/quote]

Keep waiting, FCPS is not required to share every bit of data they have with you or the community.[/quote]

I don’t think they have any data to share at this point since this seems to be in response to the governor’s cell phone free policy. But if they’re going to give a big contract to Yondr to roll this out at every MS and HS, I definitely want to see some data. They’re always giving big contracts and spending money with big corporations. Yes the phones are a problem but so is the over-reliance on tech/laptops/etc. in general and you don’t see anyone pushing back on that. [/quote]

Exactly! You know what would be better and cheaper? Cell phone charging stations for the classroom. You can make these for under $50 plus the cost of charging cords. Nothing to take home, nothing to get lost, nothing to forget, no knives out in class trying to pry open a pouch. Plus it incentivizes the kids to use it, what kid says no to charging their phone. If they had said in school 1 we’re trying classroom charging stations. In school 2 we’re trying Yondr pouches for all, in school 3 we’re allowing free phone access, in school 4 we’re making kids turn their phones into the office if we see them out in a classroom, in school 5 we’re not allowing phones at all in the school but installing several in school student use phones that will be on between classes only and several outside for before and after school use. in school 6 we’re using Yondr pouches only if you are caught using your phone in class, in school 7 we’re using cell phone lockers. You get the point… trying to see what actually WORKS, not just implementing one thing with no data to back it up. Especially when that money is going to a big company. Why not make it a school project for each school to find the most effective way to minimize phone use. Have the kids take data. That would be interesting and educational. [/quote]

We tried this in maybe 2017. Used to kind of work but they’d still go  back there to check notifs and pull it off the charger as soon as it had a 20-% charge because they wanted it back. This solution doesn’t work in 2024. The phone problem has gotten way, way too bad for little stopgap tricks like that. [/quote]

You tried all those suggestions? Or just 1 and opted for an expensive pouch because- why? [/quote]

Because nothing else works! They don’t want to put it in their backpack, shoe rack, they won’t keep it on a charger all class knowing next class there’s another charger they can use. They take the damn things out in SOL testing now and it happens so often we can’t even file the discrepancy report we used to, we just have to lecture them AGAIN. The amount of time, mental energy, creativity we have wasted on the damn phones is unreal and you think CHARGERS are a genius new idea we never thought of. [/quote]

But [b]how is out in a pouch going to change environment? [/b]The same kids that weren’t using phones will still not use phones and the kids that defied prior don’t use rules will still defy- by not putting in pouch or breaking pouch so phone can go in or out or buying fishing magnet (pouches costs $18 and magnets even less so cheap workaround)[/quote]

Is not. If they’d just fix the disciplinary system and they wouldn’t need to cover it up with expensive pouches. This just makes it appear as though they’re doing something, but nothing will change and will actually make it worse.[/quote]

The parents on this thread do NOT want that to happen because if you could get detention or iss or suspension for having a phone in class, it’s clear most of the kids of parents posting “‘MY KID WONT POUCH” here would suffer. [/quote]

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