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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since we are sharing updates and anecdotes, my daughter is at a control school without pouches and reports no issues from the first two weeks.  Students have cells off and away, just last like year.  Teachers in 8th grade are enforcing this just like her 7th grade teachers did and kids are not trying to sneak them out.    [/quote]
I should note that my daughter is AAP. Perhaps the less advanced students have more problems. [/quote]

The county wide off and away policy was in place for one year (last year) and kids pretty much never had their phones out (regardless of AAP or not).  It was pushed from the top down and was communicated to all parents as a county wide message.  THAT made it more effective than policies in years past that differed from school to school.  Teachers were instructed that students were not allowed to use their phone even for classroom activities AND it was no longer allowed out at lunch or in the hallways (which helped negate the "give an inch take a mile" effect).

That policy is being piloted alongside this yondr pouch pilot in other schools.  I truly hope those schools continue to report that phones aren't an issue when you have a firm county wide policy and we can stop spending money on this ridiculous fad.

The high school always was (and continues to be) the biggest offender when it comes to cell phone use in class.  Once the county heard the outcries from parents and teachers that THAT is truly where the problem was after the yondr pouches were announced, they last minute decided to implement a policy for those students. Now they're following a pilot where they put their phones in a hanging pouch when they enter the classroom and pick it up when they leave.  Why did it take until now for them to do that?  Individual teachers were doing it but now that the policy is being utilized school wide, it's more effective.

The trend here????  Policies that are county wide with firm disciplinary procedures alongside them are significantly more effective than those that are implemented in individual schools or classrooms.  The county could have saved tens of thousands of dollars by simply continuing to push the off and away policy for middle school and implementing the pouch policy for ALL high schools in the county.  But instead they went with the latest expensive fad for two grade levels where a large number of students don't even have phones.

Stupid.[/quote]

+1 yep. That money could have been used to buy more busses and hire more bus drivers to be able to change middle school start times.[/quote]

If you think the Yondr expenditure would cover additional bus service, I might suggest they put the money toward economics classes instead.[/quote]

Or a math class, if they bought a pouch for every single student in the county they could have bought four buses with no drivers. (Assuming they got a bulk price from Yondr.)[/quote]

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