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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great! I hope the school offices staff up to handle all of the “messages” that need to get to the kids - like ride home with Susie today because I got stuck at work.

Messages are called into the office and then delivered to the classroom back in my day of FCPS. Can’t wait for how FCPS handles this change[/quote]

Our giant school has a dozen “office assistant” TAs who run around delivering notes once in a blue moon but most just sit in the corner scrolling on their laptop for the period. They have plenty of bandwidth to deliver messages.

They made it work 20 years ago, they can make it work again next year.[/quote]

I see the benefit of having less device time but there is no difference between scrolling on a laptop and scrolling on a phone. My 4th grader comes home at least once a week excitedly telling us how he's figured out a new way to get to this game admin keeps trying to block and my 5th grader was shown something by a classmate that got the classmate suspended. On FCPS issued devices.

People want to be able to solve this with some decree and no actual effort but that's never going to work. The way you have kids on devices less is to create a device-less culture. Rules about phone but also, no-to-minimal laptop usage. Definitely not a 1:1 policy. Have bell to bell policies for teachers. How can you tell kids "it's a useful tool for me, but an evil distraction for you?" HS kids are young, not dumb. And it is a useful tool for them - that's why FCPS has invested so much in edtech partnerships, online textbooks, online testing, etc.

Until those changes are made, any sort of phone ban will fail. Parents who really need phones banned should probably not buy their kid one.[/quote]

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