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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]It's a state law so that has to be the FCPS rule. It's probably good for teens to be on their phones less in general. But you can't make it the school's job or high priority if the parents are giving kids phones and not teaching them appropriate usage or setting boundaries and limits. 
People here like to say teachers aren't babysitting. What on earth is roaming the cafeteria looking for someone texting their friends to scold them if not babysitting? 
They will have the rule and write up kids with really obvious and consistent violations. Otherwise not much will change.[/quote]

I think teachers will be forced to write up students because if you don't and it gets out that students were seen using the phone during a class, it will for sure get back to the teacher and most school administrations will have no choice but to crack down.  A few letters from parents to the state legislators who crafted SB108 is all it will take and FCPS was already on the known-violators list for not having implemented the Executive Order strictly enough.  [/quote]

I thought the whole discussion here was about lunch and in passing times?

Also, I would be shocked if Richmond could make FCPS do anything. Did anything happen because they were on a list for not implementing the EO? I'm pretty sure most of Fairfax was thrilled because it was originally a Younkin order.[/quote]

If parents have a problem with kids using phones during lunch…that is simply psychotic.[/quote]

And if they do you have to wonder why they got them a phone. We are thinking 11th grade as the year where they will get phones (instead of a watch). I don't want them on a phone so I didn't give them one. It's so easy![/quote]

DP. Easy? 
I’m excited about the school phone ban. But not giving your kid a phone sounds simple, but not easy. Not when all their friends have phones and they miss out on all the chats and FaceTimes. 
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So you want the schools to own and enforce your parenting decisions? [/quote]

That’s an odd take. 
If I buy my kid a tube top, and she wears it to school without my knowledge, where it is not allowed, then if she gets sent home it is not the school “owning and enforcing parenting decisions to buy banned clothing.”  That is the school enforcing their rules.[/quote]

Right, the debate here is over what the rule should be. You want it to be the rule that makes you feel better about not making the hard call to not get your kid a phone because you don't want them using it but think it's hard to set unpopular rules.[/quote]

That’s a different poster. My kids have phones.[/quote]

Never mind, I misread. 
I don’t need a rule to make me feel better about giving my kids phones. 
I want rules for the greater good because I have seen the amount of destruction and distraction caused by kids having phones at school. Schools don’t have control over what kids do outside of school but while they are at school, no phones is best for the greater good.

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Thanks for your concern and paternalistic decision about what is best but my kids are fine.[/quote]

This isn’t about your personal parenting decisions. 
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