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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If MCPS really cared about low income kids, they would have smaller class sizes, a ban on cell phones in class, and an actual attendance policy. I teach at a HS with a majority of immigrant students. There is a huge range of student ability in my classes but with class sizes of 30+ students including many students with IEPs, there is only so much I can do to help struggling students. Many students miss 2-3 days every week or they leave to visit their home country for 4-6 weeks and MCPS just says help them make up the missed learning. Most kids are also addicted to their cell phones so that is another battle teachers are expected to fight on their own.

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Funny at both our MCPS ES and MS cellphones are banned. I assume this is true everywhere. [/quote]

No, it is not true everywhere. I am the teacher you are responding to. I don’t want to name the HS where I teach because I don’t want to give it to a negative reputation. Cell phones are not banned. In fact, teachers are told to deal with cell phone use as they want but with zero support from administrators. Kids know there are no consequences for cell phone use. I’m not sure what the feeder middle schools are like but I hear from our security guards and 9th grade teachers that the 9th graders are impossible to deal with and have terrible behavior issues. They literally will mock the security guards and pay them no attention. I don’t teach 9th grade but it makes me wonder what is happening at the middle schools. MCPS seems fine with this. To me it is racist of MCPS to have such low expectations of schools with large low income and minority populations. [/quote]

At our school they confiscate phones if kids use them. Sorry, if your school doesn't have consequences, but the schools both my kids are in do.[/quote]

As always, if you're going to make claims such as this, name the school. We'll wait.[/quote]

Seriously.  Stop putting your tiny head in the sand PP - NOT ALL SCHOOLS ARE EQUAL - just because supposedly your dear little children have told you such doesn't make it true.  [/quote]

I don't know about the PP but @TPES the principal sent home a note to all parents about the cell phones and watches they confiscated. @TPMS my kid has to keep their phone in their locker. If they're caught using it during school hours, they will confiscate it at least according to them.[/quote]

Same with our school. Not sure which schools let kids run wild with phones. School policies limiting phone use are the norm in our experience with MCPS.[/quote]

Please list any high schools that are strict with cell phones as many teachers will want to apply to teach there.[/quote]

My kids are only in ES and MS but both their schools confiscate if kids are caught using during school hours.[/quote]

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