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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t we go natural consequences here? Don’t pay attention? Get bad grades. No makeups, redos, or 50% floor grades.

Seems like a good solution to me![/quote]

Because student A having their phone out in class is disruptive to everyone around them. It's the same reason people don't want their kids spending all day in a classroom with a student who regularly has violent emotional outbursts, etc. It's not that they don't have compassion for the other kid, but that they want their own child to have an appropriate learning environment as well.[/quote]

My child listening to her music with airpods during independent work is not disrupting your child in any way. She is a straight A honors student and I see no reason she can't keep her phone as long as she isn't disrupting others. [/quote]

You are incorrect.  First, there are very few kids these days who truly listen to music on their airpods at a volume where neighbors cannot hear them.  I'm tired of hearing this faint whisper of music from all the air buds around me.  Additionally, when your child listens, then you have a bunch of other kids who want to use their airbuds when your child has hers.  Some of those kids need to pay attention.  Some of them do okay when they are distracted, but do better when they aren't.  And there is no good way to set up a two-tiered system where some have their devices and others don't.

So, your child have special privileges that others don't, most definitely is disruptive for other students and the teacher.  I'm sorry if your child is bored and cannot keep her attention focused without external stimulation.  She'll just have to follow the same rules as everyone else.  [/quote]

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