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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]<a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/DBTR7M6BF6F2/$file/J-30%20Student%20Use%20of%20Cell%20Phones%20and%20Personal%20Electronic%20Communication%20Devices_.pdf">Policy J-30 Student Use of Cell Phones and Personal Electronic Communication Devices</a>

School Board adopts all-day ban on student phone use, makes one exception
[url]https://www.arlnow.com/2024/12/13/school-board-adopts-all-day-ban-on-student-phone-use-makes-one-exception/[/url]

"Arlington School Board members Thursday night (Dec. 12) voted unanimously (5-0) to implement a bell-to-bell ban on student use of phones in county schools starting Jan. 6. High school students will be allowed to have “brief” access to their phones in designated areas during non-instructional time, most likely around lunchtime."

No mention of penalties for students, and  [b]admin/teachers[/b] who do not follow the new policy. [/quote]

Where do you see that this applies to admin/teachers? The quote above specifies “student use”.[/quote]

It says they have to be off and away. It doesn't say only students have to turn them off and put them away.

Why would it be OK for teachers to play on their phones during the school day?[/quote]

The policy is titled “Student use of cell phones…”. Everything that follows in the post mentions “student”.

Why are you asking if it would be ok for teachers to “play on their phones”? Who suggested that? There are, however, legitimate reasons a teacher might utilize a phone during the school day.[/quote]

what are the legitimate reasons a teacher might have to use their phone during the school day? [/quote]

I’m an ES teacher. Every week I send an email update to families. Attached to that update I send a Google Slide deck of photos with captions showing what students did in school during the week. I use my camera to take those photos and upload to the slides. I have also used it to check the temperature or the radar (of there is a possibility of rain or it’s lightly raining) before heading outside to recess. It’s my watch when out at recess and it serves as my timer when completing 1:1 reading assessments. [/quote]

You don't need a phone for those things. You have a computer and you can get a dumb watch with a timer.[/quote]

You don't need get to tell PP what to do. And PP doesn't need to explain him/herself to you.

They will continue to do whatever works best for them - even if it occasionally involves using a phone.

Stuff it. 
[/quote]

I would have agreed with you except that you took that away from my kid. [/quote]

Too
Damn
Bad[/quote]

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