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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my kid has a fake one in the pouch. This experiment cost us 130K.[/quote]

You’re such a cool mom!!

So if your kid doesn’t use their phone all day, why do they bother with a fake one?[/quote]

DP. Obviously in case of emergency/lockdown. That’s why we’ve considered this, too, and I’m sure many others are also doing it. [/quote]

Yup my friend's kid was in a lockdown. Phones were required to be in lockers. School made kids leave without letting them get their phones. Kids had no way to contact parents to get home. It was a freakin nightmare.

I don't trust APS one bit not to do this again.

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Kids don't HAVE to contact parents to get picked up. Schools will send out communications. Just won't be as fast and direct with your student as you prefer.
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It's a sub-par solution to a problem that doesn't need to exist in the first place.[/quote]

The bigger and more frequent problem is phones in the classroom; the lockdown which becomes school dismissal without access to the school — how often does that happen???  Most lockdowns resolve and return to normal schedule, what is going on at these schools that they  throw their hands up and say “whatevs, go home”. [/quote]

There are plenty of lockdowns -- two on our campus in the past three months -- usually due to some false alarm or outside situation. My school has not made assuring parents that everything is fine a priority. You get an email hours later and long after your kid has gotten in touch. For sure, you hear more reliably and sooner from your own kid. If you are perfectly happy to wait and wonder, have at it but stick to parenting your own kid. I'm not giving up access to my kid to appease the zealous anti-screeners. Putting phones away during instructional time does not necessitate this overbroad and unduly expensive solution.[/quote]

So you have had two lockdowns where the kid were released from school without given time to go their lockers since school started (which around here is 2 months ago). What district is this?[/quote]

FCPS. There was one in August and one recently on our campus. I just checked the recent one and the email we got from the school was sent well after the return to normal operations. So, no, the school's track record is not to communicate timely. Again, if it's not important to you to be in touch with your kid, I fully respect that parenting choice, but I'm making a different and equally appropriate one. Phones have their downsides that I'll manage on my own as a parent, including making it clear to my kids that phones are away during instructional time. Phones also have considerable upsides and nothing in this thread has been persuasive that those should be tossed out with the bath water.[/quote]

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