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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I am only allowed to tell students to put their phones away in class but I cannot enforce it. I am not allowed to take the phones away and the kids know it. So many of them ignore the rule (can’t blame them) and this is where we are. I can’t enforce the district mandated rules. I could call the AP and he can repeat the rules but he cannot physically take the phones away either.  :roll: [/quote]

This is true.

We were doing our MS tour and there were kids with their phones out.  Now my kid is in 7th grade and kids have their phones all the time in class.[/quote]

Is this really true? I thought teachers can take and hold phones during class if a students is being disruptive with it and does not put it away. Is it just a MCPS thing? I'm positive that many (most?) schools have strict cellphone rules.[/quote]

Teachers have to do that at their own risk. Kids (or their parents) can say the phone was in perfect condition before the teacher took it and after the teacher gave it back it was broken or non functional and will insist that the school or teacher replace the phone. No way to prove it one way or the other, so it's not worth it to take it out of their possession. [/quote]

Exactly no proof either way, so what? What would happen? No parent would sue over a phone their kid likely broke. These are little things where the school has control over, in particular possessions that do not belong in the classroom and should be put away. I think teachers need to stand up for more order in the classroom (maybe not the old days where they could hit/paddle kids, now that was arguably extreme) but I think this idea that a teacher would get in trouble for holding a kid's phone until the end of class period is ludicrous. I'm pretty sure nothing would happen to the teacher, after all think just how hard it is to get a poorly performing teacher removed from teaching a class...[/quote]

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