Reply to New cell phone policy for 2026-2027

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "New cell phone policy for 2026-2027"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't understand the big deal. I haven't heard any complaints about the current policy, this is just an extra 30 minutes in the middle of the day. But we have 18 pages of arguments, what's wrong with y'all?[/quote]

You should try eating lunch without your phone and see how long you last![/quote]

I mean, I have a job, so I eat lunch in the lounge with my co-workers much like my kids eat lunch in the cafeteria with their friends. Occasionally we go out to eat. Rarely I will eat at my desk because I have to finish some work.[/quote]

Now imagine you don’t have friends in your lunch period. You have to sit there looking up not talking to anyone while everyone else around you seems to have a group. You also now aren’t allowed to use your phone. [b]You could at least study a bit online or look on schoology or watch a review video.[/b] But nope. You aren’t allowed to touch your phone and it’s your own free time. It’s painful and humiliating to sit alone. And then the the fear of having someone discover you don’t have a group or friends to sit with. [/quote]

So open your laptop. Read through your notes. Go to the library and get a book.

As someone who had a full semester of lunch duty every other day this year, 99% of kids aren't using their phones to study, they are scrolling tik tok and instagram at lunch, and it's contributing even more to feeling left out. Don't try to turn this into a "poor kids with no friends" story, because taking away phones will actually *help* those kids become included. People will actually be talking and engaging and maybe open to chatting with different kids vs hiding in a bubble of mindless scrolling.[/quote]

This is so massively correct, thank you for writing this.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics