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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need dedicated phone lockers. Away all day. If a phone is seen in school more than once by a student, confiscated and parents can pick it up on the following Monday morning, which means at least one weekend without a phone. [/quote]

Or you can just keep the phone home and stop putting this all on the school to enforce.  Be a parent.  Set your own controls.  [/quote]

Exactly. Get back to me when your kid drives to school and an after school job, and it would be a huge safety issue not to have a phone. [/quote]

I know the world has changed, but somehow 25 years ago we were able to drive to school and then work with no phone and it was totally fine.[/quote]

Soooo tired of this line. Expectations were different then, too. My HS kid literally finds out his work schedule via his boss texting him. Sometimes there’s a schedule change to his sports or band that’s communicated after the school day starts, and I need to tell him to take the bus home after all, or whatever.

I’m not suggesting he should have a phone out in class, but yes “the world has changed.” There are good reasons for a HS kid to have a with them phone before/after school, and for emergencies. I am a proponent of away during class, but I think the pouches are a stupid waste of money. And yes, my kid is finishing up a school year of having the pouch, so my opinion is based on actual experience. [/quote]

So glad my kid finished applying to college before this crap came out. All the college app stuff is online. APS makes kids use an online platform. It links to the Common App - also online. The world has changed, so it sucks to take away the tool kids need to access it. [/quote]

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