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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a retired teacher, now substitute. I had to get my phone out 3 times today to complete 2-step verifications to access email and Google.[/quote]

Seems like a legitimate use.[/quote]

eh I'm sure there are workarounds. What is a sub doesn't have a personal phone? Equity! [/quote]

1. Any APS employee needs to be able to complete 2-step verification to access their email. 
2. A substitute isn't going to need to access their email or Google to conduct class. The students have access to whatever Google docs they need, and the regular teacher will leave the necessary materials, info, instructions for the substitute. No (short-term) substitute is accessing student or class records.
3. "What if a regular full-time teacher doesn't have a personal phone????"  :roll: 
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As a sub I need to sometime access Google Slides for lessons, station rotation charts, dismissal procedures, etc. [/quote]

I'm sure those can be printed out, just like everyone said students could workaround not having their phones. [/quote]

No. There is no need to make teachers’ and subs’ lives more difficult just to appease some mentally ill parents. 
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Well there was apparently a need to make kids and parents lives more difficult just to appease some mentally ill parents who would rather blame phones over their own bad parenting.[/quote]

It’s not the parents. Did you watch the school board presentation? Teachers do not want phones in schools. That’s the reason the policy passed. [/quote]

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