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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]

The problem is students just use their school computer to do this. FCPS currenttechnology controls are useless. Students know how to disable lightspeed, use proxy servers, and use school email to bully, Snapchat, buy/sell vapes, and more. The cellphone ban is an excellent start. Parents should not send phones to school. FCPS needs better tech controls and monitoring.  This generation is suffering with learning and mental health because of technology dangers. [/quote]

It is super easy for me to say it’s a paper/pencil day and we aren’t using laptops at all. I rarely have kids on devices in my room.

But even when I do, 90% of kids are using computers for schoolwork. 2% of kids were using their phones in the same manner.[/quote]

90% of kids are NOT using their school computer for schoolwork. What grade levels do you teach? The middle school school kids have block scheduling, do the work with plenty of time to spare, then get on computers to stream, use social media, and email. And then they take the computers home for more tech access, which parents falsely assume is safe.  The FCPS technology controls don’t work.  [/quote]

High school.

It is obvious when they aren’t doing work on their laptops and I take it and hand them a paper version.

To clarify: You are arguing that students shouldn’t have access to school laptops at home because parents aren’t paying attention to what their kids are doing? Parents have access to light speed reports, do they not?[/quote]

The parent lightspeed report isn't that helpful. It shows domains. Often those domains are ads on websites that the teachers sent my kids' to, because FCPS doesn't do a good job of blocking ads (seriously, would using something like a Pi Hole as the DNS server to block trackers and ads really be that hard?), which makes it hard to find the things my kids really did.[/quote]

NP: you can send websites to the tech people and they will quickly block them.

But really, this sounds like an individual problem. You need to reinforce behaviors with your kids and monitor them at home if you cannot trust them, just as if it were a personal device.[/quote]

That is a ridiculous expectation. The social media, porn, and streaming is addicting, even for adults with fully developed frontal lobes…let alone middle or high school students- especially if they have a disability or ADHD. Expecting children’s brains to manage these all day on school devices with poor technology controls is unacceptable. [/quote]

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