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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][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]

DP. They 100% are if they are forcing some communist style seizure methods on our children. As it stands there is ZERO justification for this and WE AREN’T DOING IT! My kids will NOT be accepting a commie pouch. [/quote]

+100[/quote]

I thought the governor is outlawing phones in schools- no?[/quote]

The governor issued a mandate this summer that all Virginia schools need to develop plans to be cell phone free this school year. DCUM parents believe this does not / should not apply to them. [/quote]

DCUM thinks FCPS should invest the time and energy into finding a way that works before giving away tax payers dollars to a pouch company just to cover up the fact that their disciplinary standards are non-existent.

This draconian approach isn’t going to go over well for most. Pouch Punishment should be reserved for those children that can’t follow the rules.[/quote]

Can you please quickly run for school board as yours is the logic missing [/quote]

To political for my taste. They could just hire me to design an actual pilot program, but we all know they don’t actually want that. They made up their minds, they need their Yondr kickbacks (allegedly). [/quote]

Even if kickbacks, a huge waste of $ could go elsewhere IN the schools v to outside vendor.[/quote]

Getting kids off their phones to focus on learning isn’t a waste of money. Don’t care what brand of pouches they buy, it’s a valid use of funds given that “please put your phone away” is free and doesn’t work. [/quote]

If you can’t get them to listen now, how do you expect to get them to listen when they all bring magnets to school- or knives or any other sharp object- to pry these pouches apart?[/quote]

A. If they bring a knife to school to open these we can actually suspend them since that’s a weapon.

B. They are literally going to look like *idiots* trying to use a fishing magnet to open this thing in class while everyone else is just sitting there learning. Like that’s literally dope fiend behavior.

I think you guys have lost the plot for real when you’re  now threatening kids to bring knives if they can’t have access to their phone at all time. Look inward, something’s seriously wrong. [/quote]

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