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[quote=Anonymous]I think MS is a different thing- removing the phones from that environment will be easier.

HS will be much harder. I agree that leaving it up to the teacher to enforce- with weak consequences like “a warning” and a “PT conference”- will never work. Some teachers will prioritize “relationships” and make perfectly reasonable decisions about when they’re okay with phones (after tests, say). But all this muddies the waters and as with parenting, an inconsistently enforced rule is useless.

The high school I work at, for one, has an “away all day” policy but it works about as well as you can imagine because there are no enforced consequences.

Teachers are worried about being seen as difficult if they call security to deal with problem students (for any reason, not just phones- I can’t imagine a teacher calling security for a kid on their phone!). So they just give in.

Phones are really, really hard. There have to be immediate, clear, enforceable, consistent consequences for a good phone policy to work. [/quote]

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