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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a teacher so I'll be the first to admit that if I was, I may care but as a parent I don't care if my kid is on a call phone or not. Is my kid doing in well in school? Yes? Great. That is my concern. My kid is in AP Classes and honors classes and has a 4.0 unweighted GPA. If he wants to use a cell phone sometimes and the teacher is not complaining about him, so be it. If I heard from the teacher that it was a problem, I would step in. [/quote]

Yeah of course you don’t care. You’re not sitting in a room of zombie kids who are scrolling endlessly and not conversing, engaging, living their life. I can’t tell you how BLEAK it feels to look into a classroom and see that. I took my students on a field trip this year (10th grade)- the bus rides were silent. The kids were on their phones. Halfway through the field trip most of them just found a bench and sat down to scroll rather than actually explore. You think it’s not a big deal when it’s your one kid but it’s the entire cohort and society he’s growing up in that is like this. It’s not ok. [/quote]

My oldest is so fed up with peers who cannot communicate verbally. He has a cell phone but he is desperate for people to talk IRL not text. And he is annoyed by teachers who are hamstrung or have given up on his peers cell phone use. Many times in HS PE they sit and do nothing, so out come the phones. It sucks. [/quote]

My son is now in a private school with a bell-to-bell ban on phones. The difference in communication skills between the public and private kids is stark and really disappointing. The kids at his private school actually play during PE. They are constantly chattering and playing with each other. Obviously the teacher still has to deal with the usual lack of attention one would expect from kids his age, but it's nothing like at his old school. I was kind of lukewarm on phones until I saw how much of a difference it made to not have them.  [/quote]

I’m a teacher PP and have been saying for awhile the biggest difference you’re going to see between the quality of public vs private education in the coming years will come down to the privates that ban phones and the publics that don’t. Everything else will largely even out and privates are not better than public typically but the ones that ban screens and phones WILL see noticeable differences and it will set them apart from the sub-par public education kids will get between looking ar their phone all day. [/quote]

DP. I'm a teacher and totally agree. The exclusive privates will advertise "screen free" school days, with the possible exception of laptop carts in classrooms that are used very sparingly or 1:1 laptops that stay at home to be used during student illness or other emergencies where the child cannot attend school. Cell phone bans will be strictly enforced and parents will pay big money for it to happen. Those who won't follow the rules get kicked out.[/quote]

Please list the “exclusive privates” that will be advertising such a policy. I worked for 2 “exclusive” privates and screen usage was far worse than in FCPS![/quote]

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