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[quote=Anonymous][quote]My thought, as a school administrator, is that preventing middle schoolers from accessing their devices during lunch and recess is unrealistic. Schools that attempt to do so either end up enforcing the rules randomly, which opens them up complaints of unequal treatment. Or they have policies that are in writing but not enforced, which sends the message to the kids that school rules can be ignored. Whichever way they go, the amount of teacher and administrator time that is spent enforcing, or negotiating, or explaining the rules is enormous and cuts into other important parts of a school mission. [/quote]

Sheesh I'm glad you're not the administrator at my DS middle school!  They have it figured out quite well, and it appears easily done. They simply require all personal electronics in lockers during the school day and confiscate them if they are ever seen. I think retrieval requires parental inconvenience:)  I'm sorry, but it's not rocket science. And it IS really important for chidden to have some imaginative space which is not formatted and controlled by scenarios and constructs devised by software developers![/quote]

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