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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue of teacher safety is really important but I don't see what it has to do with cell phone policies. If you're saying you can't have a cell phone policy because kids might get violent if someone tries to enforce it, then you're essentially saying you can't have any rules or expectations whatsoever. Just let kids do whatever they want. [/quote]

This is not a "if scenario." Teachers ARE getting assaulted over trying to enforce cell phone bans. It is a reality.

So what do you propose MCPS do to prevent it from happening? Cause until you solve for that, many teachers will smartly make the decision that enforcing the ban is not worth their safety and wellbeing.[/quote]

What do teachers do when kids get mad over other things? Surely they have a way to deal with it. IT's not that hard to piss off teens and access to phones is just one of a million things to set them off. Or do you suggest we let these kids do whatever they want? Is that safe????[/quote]

The cell phone has a special hold over kids because it's an addiction. Have you ever tried to separate an addict from their substance of choice? It's not pleasant.

Read up: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/screen-time-over-can-child-stop

https://brisbanekids.com.au/how-to-stop-screen-rage-attacks/

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Oh please, if MCPS started and consistently enforced a "no phones in class" policy countywide, there would be a bad month or two, people would adjust and then it would be business as usual (which does not mean 100% perfection of course but it would just be another rule that is more or less followed).[/quote]

Or another rule that is more or less ignored, which is precisely what's happening in many schools.[/quote]

Exactly.

I mean, technically, kids shouldn’t bring Fentanyl to school, yet we have kids distributing drugs at school anyway.

The rules say that minors should not be smoking weed in the bathrooms, yet my kids’ high school bathrooms are havens for the weed-smokers.

The rules prohibit vaping in schools.  Our middle school has a huge issue with kids vaping at school.  Heck, our ES (Twinbrook) had fifth graders vaping.

Maybe if MCPS even tried to enforce the rules that are already in place, that would be a good start.  [/quote]

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