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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]I am not an absolutist. I agree that cellphones have no place during instructional time, but I'm less worried about lunch and transitions, particularly in high school. How can kids learn how to use tech responsibly if we take it away from them until they graduate?

There were very convincing arguments about flexibility too, about how kids used phones for in-class projects at teachers' discretion prior to the total ban.

Why does everything have to be black and white? The people who are cheering about the cellphone ban are now gunning for the iPads and laptops. Which again, I can be convinced really aren't developmentally appropriate in K-2, but older kids gotta learn about it anyway to remain part of an interconnected global society.

I remember someone saying in the old AEM that it was just election-year red meat. I agree.

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Outside agitators trying to stir things up.

Let the schools/teachers decide what works best for them. 
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Your teachers and your admin have banned them.  They already decided and you lost.  As is every major school district private school etc in the country.  [/quote]

I support the teacher’s ban, a$$wipe. Fortunately, it’s not super restrictive.

I don’t support outside agitators stirring up sht with our schools. 
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I'm good with no phone in class. Not at all okay with making an 18 year old lock their phone in a pouch, and paying some company for dumb pouches. 
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I’m ok making them available to teachers who want to use them. But I’m not forcing teachers if they don’t think they’re necessary for their class. 
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DP and I teach older kids. This is how I feel.  Make them available but don’t force me to police pouches or lockers for older teens. I have good classroom management and have not had any issues with phones.  This is giving me something else to do.  It’s often asked on her how teachers feel like we keep getting piled on with one more thing. This is an example. I’m asked to micro manage these older teens or young adults and police cells phones when I should be left alone to teach.  [/quote]

I’m sorry, but your approach is going to be the clueless teacher upfront lecturing to the class, meanwhile, they’ll be many kids trying to focus on what you’re saying who is peripheral vision will be distracted by all the motion and ears assaulted by high-pitched noise from their neighbors TikTok binge[/quote]

Just stop. PP doesn’t have an issue with kids using phones in the classroom.

The only clueless person here is you. 
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I would love to hear their classroom management technique that makes them immune to a nationwide problem? If they aren’t patrolling their kids cell phone use, in the mass of 30 kids there will be phones in use. It sounds like as long as they don’t hear it, they don’t care? But I would like them to clarify.

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I’ll clarify.  It’s my post you are talking about and it’s not as rampant in good classrooms as there scare tactic posts are making it out to be.  I’ve been doing this for over 25 years now.  Kids are not streaming videos in class, contrary to what you are reading. If you get any kid insistent on doing like you describe I’d deal with anyone who would be that disrespectful and disruptive to the class. This is as bad as being off task or loudly talking.

I can do a number of things, warnings, contact home, go through my schools discipline channels, parent meetings, etc.

Locking up everyone’s phones is not the answer.  This is like saying all desks need to be in single rows, separated, forever and silent work because it will prevent kids from talking since groups are too distracting and teens can’t handle collaboration or group work.  [/quote]

If you teach in APS, so happy I pulled for private. [/quote]

I always like to have a conversation.  What part of my post don’t you like? I do teach in public school but sent my own children to private school, same as you.  I also have a lot of frustrations with the public school system but that’s a different thread.  [/quote]

DP. For me it’s the way you say it’s fine because you have handled it, in your eyes. Have none of your colleagues had problems? I would imagine you would have heard the musing and opinions on the APS ban?  What high school are you at; HBW will be different than WL for a number of reasons for example. [/quote]

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