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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to know how the HS version of this with “storage units located in the classroom” is supposed to work. So kids are wasting time at the beginning and end of class to deal with the phones?  Who stops a kid from taking someone else’s phone either by mistake or on purpose?  A kid who has to be dismissed early for any reason needs to potentially disrupt the entire class to retrieve their phone?

Maybe it’s a great program. But typical of FCPS it’s being implemented in a way that leaves more questions than answers. [/quote]

You walk in and stick your phone in the slot before you take your seat. Every kid should be in their seat before the bell. It is not some elaborate process nor will it take an inordinate amount of time-unless your kid is the one who sits down, gets on their phone, thinks the rules don’t apply to them, and is the reason it has come to this. Kids will grab their phones on the way out. It will take seconds, just like grabbing a handout on your way out the door.

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My now college aged kid had to do this as a HS freshman. It was enough of a mess that most teachers abandoned the practice pretty quickly. If the pilot program schools can make it work smoothly that’s great, but the lack of specific information is not inspiring confidence than anyone actually has a workable plan beyond putting a storage unit in each room and telling teachers and students to figure it out.  That hasn’t worked out well in the past. [/quote]

My kids have both had teachers that used the hanging shoe rack thing for phones. It was indeed as simple as that - phones in on the way in, out on the way out. [/quote]

It’s really not that simple because the teacher down the hall does something different so they want to keep their phone and *there is no consequence if they do*. Please stop telling teachers what THEY  deal with every single day . [/quote]

DP.  This is what our HS is doing this fall.  Every teacher will have a hanging shoe rack for phones.  [/quote]

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