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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a high school teacher and parent of kids in elementary and middle school. I read the policy and didn’t think it would change much. Phones are not allowed to be out in my children’s schools in elementary or middle school during the day. My MS kid often complains about “off and away” so I know it’s enforced.

I have not had issues with students and cell phones in high school in many, many years. They just are not a problem anymore. If someone is on it a lot and I give a reminder, they put it away. Phones aren’t the problem.

The huge problem in high school is the laptop. This is what they are using now as a distraction. I don’t use them often in my class because they are constantly on anything except what we are doing. Every since class I have a minimum of 5 students arguing with me that they need to have it open for notes because they work better than that than one paper. It’s the rare case this is true. Often they are watching YouTube or doing something else online.

My middle schooler often tells me stories of how they are all doing similar there on the laptops. [/quote]

Not sure what parallel universe you live in but I'm also a HS teacher and phone use at our school is just catastrophic.
 I try to police the underclassmen who need my class to graduate but it's very, very difficult and frankly, just exhausting to constantly have to interrupt what you're doing to tell someone to put their phone away, only to have them pull it out again a minute later. Multiply that by 25-30 students.
I've completely given up with the upperclassmen in my elective class. Let them fail, see if I care.[/quote]

Yes, parallel universe indeed. I’ve worked at my school for a long time and they really push the laptops and would like teachers to have paperless classes. This was well before covid.  There were years where we were told we had to incorporate them into a certain percentage of lessons.  That has loosened up a lot after a big backlash from parents and teachers. Many of us are back to using paper and trying to limit the tech to when it’s absolutely necessary. But for a lot of students, they have grown up being used to being on these laptops and are completely addicted. They are easier to hide behind in class instead of their phones. It’s a similar issue, although different. [/quote]

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