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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I LOVE IT!!!!!!!

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How does not having a phone in passing periods affect your class?[/quote]

HS teacher: it’s huge. They cannot snap each other to arrange ditching class at the same time, share where the vape is stashed, text each other what was on the test. They will have heads up so collisions in busy hallways will lessen. They will be on time more often because they won’t be trying to squeeze every second of phone time before coming to class.[/quote]

HS Teacher, love this perspective.
-One question, who and how will the ban be enforced? Won't teachers/ staff just get tired of asking kids to put away their phones all day every day? Are there any actual consequences that the school said they would enforce? 
-I think some schools, with weak leadership & weak classroom management skills will just throw in the towel by week 4.[/quote]

It’s going to be a ton of work. We have all been assigned 45 minutes every other day during what used to be our planning (it’s now basically a duty period) to patrol hallways and bathrooms. If we see a phone out we are to ask the student to give it to us and we take it to the office. If the student refuses, we have an email address we reach out to with the time/location and a description of the child and admin will pull up cameras and track down the child. The email goes to all admin and security people in the whole building and whoever is available comes to get it. It worked well last year with classroom issues, we’ll see how it goes with the hallways.

Confiscated phones result in detention and parent pickup.

My school is going all in. Principal had stated multiple times already we cannot back off of it and we will have the hall monitor duties all year.

It sucks to lose so much planning but teachers are (mostly) willing to do it because [b]the phones have created such a horrific learning environment. [/b]I wish kids wouldn’t bring them to school at all but that’s not reality so we are doing the best we can with what we have.[/quote]

How do you not see it’s the laptops that create the horrific learning environment? My son was forced to get a laptop at school in 3rd grade. Prior to that, he had never been on a computer. He didn’t even know what YouTube was. Third grade changed all that sadly. [/quote]

I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t use laptops in my room, except maybe 10 days a year. County mandated assessments are on them, one or two really awesome activities are on them. Otherwise it’s paper/pencil/peers. I can control laptop usage in my classroom. I rarely had an issue with kids using them in my class. I could not, until last year, control phones.

I don’t know what your child’s elementary school experience was and I won’t pretend to. I teach high school. I know that for my own classroom, getting phones (and earbuds!!) out of the picture is wonderful.[/quote]

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