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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is disturbing  how a significant number of parents on this thread are actively encouraging their children to break the cell phone policy. Worse yet, many are admitting to modeling sneaky behaviors to help their children bypass the rules entirely. Instead of supporting school staff, some parents are actively teaching their children how to operate in the shadows.

Some parents admit to buying decoy phones for their children to hand over into classroom storage devices or Yondr pouches, allowing the child to keep their actual smartphone hidden in their pocket or backpack. When phones are successfully locked away, parents often condone use of alternative digital workarounds, such as using school-issued laptops to chat via shared Google Docs during lectures.

Some parents frequently text their children during school, expecting an immediate response, despite having full awareness of the "bell-to-bell" policy. When schools implement the state-mandated "bell-to-bell" ban, parents often balk, citing safety panics, despite the fact that every school has a front office fully equipped to relay emergency messages. By prioritizing their own anxiety or desire for constant contact over the school’s boundaries, parents are sending a clear, toxic message: Rules don't apply to us if they are inconvenient.

Condoning and modeling the intentional breaking of school rules and state mandates is, plain and simple, poor parenting.

When a parent helps a child smuggle a phone into class, they teach that child to view authority figures, such as teachers and administrators, not as leaders to respect, but as adversaries to outsmart. A child raised to believe they are above basic rules will struggle significantly when transitioning to higher education or "the real world," where defying policies carries swift, real-world consequences.

Like I said, it is, plain and simple, poor parenting. 
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ONCE AGAIN, FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK…IT’S JUST FOR LUNCH!

Get a grip![/quote]

The average high school student is not capable of switching back into focused school mode after staring at a phone screen for 30 minutes. The remainder of the class period after my lunch block is a nightmare of whining, behaviors, grumpiness, etc.

The most common use of the phone is not old school "check your text messages and put it away". It's check the alert, respond to mom's text, see a snapchat notification your friend sent from the bathroom, get sucked into writing messages back and forth for as long as friend can avoid being in class, navigate over to instagram, scroll for 15 minutes, and then put in earbuds and watch tiktok or youtube videos until the administrators shoo you out of the cafeteria. Then they come back to class (some, some detour to the bathroom to readjust their hair or hoods to try to hide the airpods they were using in the cafe before coming back) and I ask them to focus to do a task and they are detoxing from screens and they can't do it.

It isn't just getting a message from mom.[/quote]

That’s what I mean by the good kids are getting punished with this rule. My kid is not average. My kid has zero social media and no airbuds. My kid doesn’t have trouble focusing back in class. My kid is a straight A student. My kid should be able to text me at lunch or see a text from me at lunch period. I don’t care what you or the law says.[/quote]

"I'm not an average driver. I should be able to drive at 90 mph on the beltway because I can handle it."

Come on...rules are for the benefit of society as a whole.[/quote]

Checking a text at lunch is not anywhere near the same as driving at 90 mph. Your analogy fails here. [/quote]

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