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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is getting a dumb phone to put in the pouch or will just say his phone is at home. He’s not going to be using the pouch. [/quote]

If he takes it out and is caught with his phone too many times, you will have to pick it up at the school. [/quote]

Oh the horror!

BFD[/quote]

+1 exactly!!! My kid won’t be taking it out so no worries. But he’s definitely not locking it up in a pouch and then having to scramble among hordes of kids to unlock it at dismissal. [/quote]

It is so funny to me that EVERY parent in this thread believes THEIR kid manages perfect phone use and won’t take it out in class no matter what. It may be true for a couple but speaking from my viewpoint at the front of these high school classes every day, most of you are kidding yourselves about how responsible your kids are with their phones being away. [/quote]

Or, teachers can communicate with parents on the issue.  I got an email once and my kid lost his phone and other electronics for a week.  Its called parenting, try it.[/quote]

Cool… you know these phones allow you to monitor the utilization and usage of it day to day. They literally provide you times apps were opened, how long, etc.

Might I wager a guess that you have never used this feature? Perhaps instead of dropping to onus on the teachers to report a problem in a room where they’re doing 50 other jobs and managing 30 kids, we take a small bit of initiative.

All I see in this thread is parents talking out of both sides of their mouth and passing the buck.

“My kid is responsible… but if he’s not it’s on the teacher to let us know.”

“My kid needs their phone for safety… but other also need to have a smart phone for socializing.”

“My child would never use it improperly during the day… but we also can’t expect them to never check their phone.”

It’s really easy to stand tall and talk the talk about “it’s called parenting”. It takes actual work to do it though and given how half baked the logic is in this thread I doubt very much so that it’s happening to the degree a lot of posters pound their chests about. I don’t know how anyone can convince themselves their doing a great job “parenting” while passively admitting and tossing their hands up in defeat if something happens outside of their immediate field of vision. [/quote]

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