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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HS teacher. I appreciate your efforts, OP, but your petition is defective. We already have this policy in the SR&R and a policy without consequences is worthless. Your petition needs to advocate for real consequences that hurt for being caught with a phone out. Maybe not as harsh as being caught with drugs, but real consequences. Otherwise you are wasting your time.

I echo the teacher above who said she doesn't get paid enough to deal with phone disruption. I'm teaching. Your kid prefers Tiktok to learning? Your problem.[/quote]

The current policy in the SR&R for high school states that students can only use the hand held device for educational use at the teacher's discretion. This only applies to the classroom. Hallways and lunchtime are free for phone use under the current policy.  100% this classroom policy is not enforced. I had a FCPS school board member admit to me that they didn't really have a plan for enforcement when this policy was put in place, which is ridiculous and a huge disservice to teachers and students. It looks good in the news, but in practice means nothing.

The petition calls for a bell to bell ban. Yondr pouches cost money, yes, but as another alternative, students could come into school, go to their last period class and place their phone in a phone caddy or locker, go about their school day, phone free and in person in the classroom, hallways and lunch and then retrieve their phone as they leave at the end of the day.

This takes leadership and vision so that teachers can concentrate on their job, not phones.

Parents and coaches have dealt with kids not having access to a phone all day just a few short years ago. We can remember how.  [/quote]

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