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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not an absolutist. I agree that cellphones have no place during instructional time, but I'm less worried about lunch and transitions, particularly in high school. How can kids learn how to use tech responsibly if we take it away from them until they graduate?

There were very convincing arguments about flexibility too, about how kids used phones for in-class projects at teachers' discretion prior to the total ban.

Why does everything have to be black and white? The people who are cheering about the cellphone ban are now gunning for the iPads and laptops. Which again, I can be convinced really aren't developmentally appropriate in K-2, but older kids gotta learn about it anyway to remain part of an interconnected global society.

I remember someone saying in the old AEM that it was just election-year red meat. I agree.

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Outside agitators trying to stir things up.

Let the schools/teachers decide what works best for them. 
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Your teachers and your admin have banned them.  They already decided and you lost.  As is every major school district private school etc in the country.  [/quote]

I support the teacher’s ban, a$$wipe. Fortunately, it’s not super restrictive.

I don’t support outside agitators stirring up sht with our schools. 
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I'm good with no phone in class. Not at all okay with making an 18 year old lock their phone in a pouch, and paying some company for dumb pouches. 
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I’m ok making them available to teachers who want to use them. But I’m not forcing teachers if they don’t think they’re necessary for their class. 
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DP and I teach older kids. This is how I feel.  Make them available but don’t force me to police pouches or lockers for older teens. I have good classroom management and have not had any issues with phones.  This is giving me something else to do.  It’s often asked on her how teachers feel like we keep getting piled on with one more thing. This is an example. I’m asked to micro manage these older teens or young adults and police cells phones when I should be left alone to teach.  [/quote]

I’m sorry, but your approach is going to be the clueless teacher upfront lecturing to the class, meanwhile, they’ll be many kids trying to focus on what you’re saying who is peripheral vision will be distracted by all the motion and ears assaulted by high-pitched noise from their neighbors TikTok binge[/quote]

Just stop. PP doesn’t have an issue with kids using phones in the classroom.

The only clueless person here is you. 
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I would love to hear their classroom management technique that makes them immune to a nationwide problem? If they aren’t patrolling their kids cell phone use, in the mass of 30 kids there will be phones in use. It sounds like as long as they don’t hear it, they don’t care? But I would like them to clarify.

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I’ll clarify.  It’s my post you are talking about and it’s not as rampant in good classrooms as there scare tactic posts are making it out to be.  I’ve been doing this for over 25 years now.  Kids are not streaming videos in class, contrary to what you are reading. If you get any kid insistent on doing like you describe I’d deal with anyone who would be that disrespectful and disruptive to the class. This is as bad as being off task or loudly talking.

I can do a number of things, warnings, contact home, go through my schools discipline channels, parent meetings, etc.

Locking up everyone’s phones is not the answer.  This is like saying all desks need to be in single rows, separated, forever and silent work because it will prevent kids from talking since groups are too distracting and teens can’t handle collaboration or group work.  [/quote]

If you teach in APS, so happy I pulled for private. [/quote]

I always like to have a conversation.  What part of my post don’t you like? I do teach in public school but sent my own children to private school, same as you.  I also have a lot of frustrations with the public school system but that’s a different thread.  [/quote]

DP. For me it’s the way you say it’s fine because you have handled it, in your eyes. Have none of your colleagues had problems? I would imagine you would have heard the musing and opinions on the APS ban?  What high school are you at; HBW will be different than WL for a number of reasons for example. [/quote]

I’m not going to tell you which school I work at since I’m starting to give personal information out.  Yes, some of my colleagues have had issues and love pouches and a complete ban.  This is why I am a fan of having them available to those that want to use them but not making them mandatory.  I do not think students should have cells out in classes.  I have a problem when anyone tells me I have to accomplish that by doing a particular thing. They don’t know what’s best when they have never set foot in my classroom.  [/quote]

We should trust teachers to decide what works best for them.

We all saw how APE treated teachers during the pandemic so it’s not surprising that they want to force this on them.

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Have there been any teacher, other than maybe an art teacher using the camera, who advocates for a phones to be in the classroom?  By making phones away all day they won’t really have to do much of anything. [/quote]

Some of you will never get it so this is my last response on this thread.  A different poster hit the nail on the head when she said as a teacher, I don’t feel respected.  I don’t want phones in my class or allow them.  But how dare you tell me how to best accomplish that with 16-18 year olds when I really doubt you work with 30 of them daily on a regular basis.  Having your own kids is not the same.

I have my own teens and the parent dynamic is different than when you are a teacher.  This is not about using phones in my class.  We agree on that.  This is about how this is another area teachers have lost control in their classroom and we have outside people who don’t work with kids telling us what is best because of “the research” and how we have to enforce their latest fad.  It’s the flavor of the month. [/quote]

I have to say I’m impressed that you have swapped the “my kid needs their phone for reasons” to “you are disrespecting teachers”.

So you are saying these are near adults, we should let the kids bring in their BB guns, drones, laser pointers, water pistols, and the 18 year olds can open carry and bring in their vape, the teachers can manage as they see fit. [/quote]

And this is the problem right here. You are so irrational that you're equating a communication device with weapons and drugs. [/quote]

Drones, laser pontees, and water pistols are not weapons. [/quote]

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