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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you should advocate to ACPS to let your kids use the front office phone in one-off emergencies instead of lugging around an $500-1200 cellphone? Because we all know which schools/student bodies creates these issues.

(It is not the ones who can’t afford them.)[/quote]

I agree with you that just using the office phone would be much better, and students should be able to do that.  But I’m trying to point out that not all school systems are amenable to such things.  I don’t know what you’re getting at with the rest of your comment.[/quote]

Smartphones are expensive. Poor kids aren't causing the problem. It's middle class parents giving phones to their entitled kids too early.[/quote]

So your position is that kids shouldn’t get phones until they graduate from HS? This idea is both incredibly stupid and unworkable.

We live in a world where kids are using these known-to-be addictive devices all day long.  We have to deal with the problem as it exists.   I have seen no good reasons offered for allowing kids to have their phones out at school ever.  I see massive scientific and anecdotal evidence about the harms of student cell phone usage.   It would be so easy to have a black and white rule: phones must be away all day during the school day.  Period.  Loads of better schools and school districts are doing this.  APS  is per usual a huge disappointment. [/quote]

My 6th and 9th graders do not have phones. Because it's a want not a need.

They might disrupt class, but not because they're distracted by phone usage.

It's okay. You don't have to give your kids everything everyone else has. [/quote]

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