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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are making a couple of pretty big assumptions. My experience as a classroom teacher is very different. No parent would sue? I’m not so sure about that, particularly in priviledged and litigious MoCo. But, even if they don’t sue, they will stir up trouble for the teacher because, after all, their precious snowflake deserves to have her/his phone at all times! Teachers already don’t have enough time to do their jobs. They don’t need an additional time-consuming fight with some idiot parent complaining about their kid’s loss-of-phone “trauma.” In addition, you assume the school administrators will back the teacher who took the phone. All I can say to that is....LOL! LMAO! The teacher would be thrown under the bus in a split second. MOST administrators just want to placate the parents. That’s how the principals curry favor and move up to central office positions where they rarely have to deal with parents, teachers, or students, but can mandate what goes on in schools. Nice work, if you can get it?. MCPS [b]needs a district-wide policy banning the use of cell phones during instruction[/b]. But...that will never happen because the school system’s “leadership” lacks both vision and guts.[/quote]

I agree, and I'm not sure why they haven't done it already. If phones are seen inside the classrooms, teachers should be able to take them away. It's a pretty easy no brainer. They can use them in the hallways or recess.

To be honest, as much as I don't like the excessive inequality in top private schools, I have to say that their discipline system works well. If they break the rules multiple times, they will eventually get kicked out.[/quote]

Agree.  Kids in my child's school can only have cell phones AFTER they leave lunch.  They get an hour break and once they leave the lunch room, they can go to their lockers and check up on things, text parents update on pick-ups or sport game changes, etc...  Then they go back in the locker before the period is over.  You would think they would scarf thru lunch and go get their phones, but they don't.  They have round tables of 10 kids (like a wedding) and they all eat, talk, laugh, etc.... Most go back after 30-40min for the last 20min or so.  If NONE of them have it, none of them need it.  Kids and teens don't realize they are subconsciously craving human interaction.

If they are caught with a phone first time is a detention.  Second time is a week's detention, and third time is suspension and parent meeting.  Oh, and detention is one hour BEFORE school starts, not after.  So the kids need a ride from a parent.  It works. [/quote]

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