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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the locked pouches….how did schools know whose phone is whose at the end of the day?  There is a lot of theft of cell phones at our MS.  The kids won’t leave them in their lockers because the lockers get broken into a lot.  The bags seem like they would work for small private schools but I just don’t see how they would work for schools with almost a thousand kids.

I feel like this system might work—if teacher sees it out, kid is told put it away.  If it doesn’t go away, email goes to parent annd child given lunch detention. After 3 emails to parent, parent must come in to schoo  for a meeting with school admin and child.  If parent doesn’t, or after 2 such meetings, child is suspended.

But even that would require teachers taking the time to email an admin every day with list of non compliant kids, an admin to email the parents and track it, and the willingness to actually suspend repeat offenders.

Another idea is that they could actually block reception in school.  My HS kid is not on his cell at all during school because there is zero reception in his concrete block basement room buildings (which I confirmed during back to school night, when I couldn’t text my spouse to tell them it was running late.). My other Hs kid, at a different HS, has reception all day, though.   [/quote]

Cell phone jamming is against the law, so that's not gonna fly. Phones are a HUGE problem in middle schools. There needs to be a ban. Parents weren't constantly connected to their kids 10 years ago. There is no need for it now. There's a school number. Call the school. Kids can use email on Chromebooks if necessary. Some principals are no help at all in the matter. Parents don't help either-they are usually the ones texting and/or calling their kids in the middle of class. MCPS needs an official policy now. [/quote]

Kids cannot email parents through chromebooks - MCPS only allows their gmail.com on there and it doesn't send email to anyone outside of MCPS.[/quote]

They can check other email accounts. Try using your brain before posting. [/quote]

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