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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're banned from our MCPS MS. If students use them during thr school day they get confiscated, can't get it back until dismissal.[/quote]

I would like to know if this is truly enforced.  [/quote]

Different poster but at our MS, it is. I’m not saying they catch it every time but the teachers take it seriously. [/quote]

I have read lots of teacher posts here that teachers do not want to disrupt class every time a kid has a phone.  They also get push back from parents for taking phones or are accused of damage or loss.  They just let it go for the sake of teaching the rest of the class.[/quote]

There are other ways to handle it--make the kid take the phone to the office, give them lunch detention, etc. I'm sure the school can come up with some way of managing it without the teachers having to physically handle the phone. But from my experience, the threat of having their phones taken away is enough to convince most of the kids to leave them in their lockers. And since a lot of them are texting one another for the most part, if no one has a phone during the day, it's not a big deal. I was really skeptical of the phone ban in the beginning of the year and thought it would never work but it's working far better than I had thought. Once they get used to the rule, it becomes a non-issue for most kids. And the kids who aren't following the phone rule are likely not following most other rules so they are still the ones who are taking away the teacher's attention. [/quote]

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