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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I told my kid about the new rule for next year and he laughed and was like “how are they going to enforce that?”[/quote]

The thing the "we follow the rules!!!" crowd doesn't understand is that a stupid and unenforceable rule reduces the authority teachers have with kids. The kid here is laughing - the attitude is that the school is so clueless as to how things work they think they can do this. That attitude carries over to other things. It's not the teachers or even the schools probably - they understand perfectly well how to keep a grip on their position with students so they won't enforce it. The parents that think this is going to happen are the ones that look foolish. And then it convinces them they don't need to take other actions on phones. 
Like literally everything else it does, you can't count on FCPS, you have to do it yourself.[/quote]

This entire thing is based on the premise that the rule is unenforceable. 
That’s false.
It is enforceable. Whether schools will go to the lengths needed to do so is another question. 
Some kids might try and find ways to get around it, but that does not make the rule unenforceable.
The effectiveness of the enforcement depends on many factors. 
Schools or teachers may choose to look the other way, as they do for many things and many reasons, but that doesn’t mean the rule is unenforceable. 
Leadership needs to grow a spine and expect accountability from students and there need to be real consequences for errant behavior. [/quote]

Having your frontline staff refusing to acknowledge or enforce the rule actually does make it unenforceable. There is no money or appetite for what would need to be done.

And unless you made repeated violations an expellable offence (which you can't under the state's definition of public education), there is nothing that stops a kid from getting caught, coming back, and doing it again.[/quote]

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