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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support no phone use in middle schools, but this pouch stuff is dumb. My 13yo is in general a rule follower and does not use their phone during school (I know because I check their usage). My plan is to have them leave their phone at home and have their Apple Watch on school mode to turn off as soon as school ends. If they need me in an emergency they can turn off school mode and contact me. If we need to communicate about after school plans/rides/frequent bus delays I will text and they will get it as school mode turns off, and they will text on the watch after school.

I think this goes along with the school’s ultimate goal of no phones at school but leaves needed communication open.

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If more parents choose to have their kids leave the phone at home to not have to pouch it, that’s great. A watch is not nearly as distracting as the phone because they can’t do tiktok/snap/games on it or just endlessly scroll. I have zero issue with Apple Watch use in my classes and wouldn’t mind a quick text here and there at all.

However, most kids and families aren’t just going to move to leaving phones at home by choice so if the pouch encourages that and we can eventually move to your phone is only locked in the pouch if you in particular continue to have issues with it, that’s a perfectly good system IMO. (Though I think making it a requirement for the PARENT to come get the phone out of the pouch if it gets to that point would be the true deterrent.) [/quote]

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