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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Yorktown they are allowed to use them in a quiet spot in the library.   DD tells me she doesn’t have time during the day to go to said spot. So if she needs to get us a message I guess she does it while going to the bathroom.

But schedule changes happen all the time in high school. Something was cancelled today so I didn’t have to pick her up from school. She rode the bus. Nice to get that message so I didn’t have to rush to leave the office at 4 to pick her up. [/quote]

this is what the parents of younger kids just do not get. There are a lot of schedule shifts with high school activities that just don't happen with littles. [/quote]

Dude.  Let go of the idea that the “only” people favoring the ban are parents with little kids.  I am in favor, and I have a HS student.

It’s like you all have no idea of how to do a cost benefit analysis and the “cost” to YOU of last minute scheduling changes completely outweighs the entire body of scientific evidence along with your children’s teachers of cell phones harm.  To keep harping on this issue of last minute schedule changes as if it’s the end of the universe for our over scheduled HS students is not convincing anyone.  We all think your child will probably benefit from having to figure out last minute schedules changes on their own and NO ONE CARES HOW HARD IT IS FOR YOU TOBE SOMEHWHAT INCONVENIENCED by not being tethered to your kid.    [/quote]

Where are these studies that show that sending an occasional text between classes is harmful?

You are being overly rigid on this and seem incapable of understanding nuance. Maybe reflect on that. 
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Actually you give me another idea.  A student can remove phone from a pouch if the school is allowed to install MDM on your personal phone, and then only allows the phone to whitelist certain phone numbers for like 10 messages a day.  It can receive calls and everything else is locked down while at school. The MDM would also have a bluetooth app that the teacher could sniff with their own phone to confirm that this is not a burner phone but the MDM installed phone.

This is MDM profiles 101, not hard to implement at all. And now you can text about carpool without living in terror.[/quote]

Seriously? 
I do not want or need the school to require something being put on my kid's personal phone. (And I'm a parent who is fine with my kid's phone being confiscated for the day if they are using it when they're not supposed to, and not a whiny parent complaining that their kid can't access their phone between classes).
Seriously, putting the phone away is a lot simpler. Why would anyone CRITICALLY NEED  ten messages within the school day? Something that complex should be handled by an actual phone call.
Besides, the phones still receive messages in the pouches. It's not like their phones become dysfunctional stored away in a pouch, in their backpack, in a shoe holder on the classroom door, in a box on the teacher's desk, or wherever.[/quote]

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