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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m surprised there are 10 pages of postings on this. Other than kids who need apps to control their medical equipment, what exactly is the need for a child to have a phone accessible at all times? Put it away, and keep it away. [/quote]

+1.  It’s shocking to me that this is controversial.  Unless there is a medical need, your kid doesn’t need a phone during school hours.

Plus, [b]the new policy doesn’t actually change the rule but rather just helps teachers to enforce the rule that already exists.  [/b]Students have never been allowed to have phones out during class time.  Now teachers don’t have to waste time trying to police this.  [/quote]

+1 I do see how the lock-bags could be challenging in HS since teachers have learned to integrate phones into some classes. But away in some kind of docking station every time you come into class is 100% reasonable for HS. I will be interested to see how the Wakefield pilot goes with removing them completely.

And the lock-bags should be used throughout the middle schools. The data shows the phones are most detrimental in the early teen years. And you don't have the varied arrival/departure times/off campus lunch issues in MS.[/quote]

I do think off and in your backpack is reasonable for high school BUT ONLY IF the kids follow the rules and teachers and admin actually implement consequences for not. That's been the problem - and that's why we resort to pilot programs locking them in bags for the entire day.  Also, I would support the off and away policy IF it also applied to lunch period. Much of it for me is the lack of social skills development (especially those coming up during COVID who are developmentally behind socially) and the lack of engagement with each other permeating society -- adults just as much, if not more.[/quote]

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