Parents that let their children take phones to school are disgusting.

Neither my middle nor my high schooler in MCPS have reported this.

As usual, it’s very circle-dependent.

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Anonymous wrote:Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

My kid's private school has weeklong detention for students who have their phone out during school hrs. That would never fly at my public school. Students just wouldn't show up to detention.

Aww that's sad. I parent my child. I guess subbing it out is okay but what happens when the school ends and they have to navigate life on their own?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

My kid's private school has weeklong detention for students who have their phone out during school hrs. That would never fly at my public school. Students just wouldn't show up to detention.

You realize this is for mcps and there is a private school forum for you.

Rude. Many people have children in both public and private school depending on individual circumstances. You have no idea what PP‘s children’s circumstances are.

NP.. sure, but I don't think the private school poster realizes that public schools must educate everyone, and not the select few that they accept. Public schools can't kick a kid out for just violating cell phone use policy or missing detention 3x in a row.

At our old APS middle school, kids did get detention for not leaving their phones in the locker. Other school systems are behind on this with regard to discipline.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

My kid's private school has weeklong detention for students who have their phone out during school hrs. That would never fly at my public school. Students just wouldn't show up to detention.

You realize this is for mcps and there is a private school forum for you.

Yes I do. I also have experience in public school since I work in one. The only ways to change behavior are to offer incentives for desired behaviors and/or negative consequences for undesired behaviors. If students voluntarily keep their phones away during school, they should be offered rewards. If they don't, consequences need to occur. Public school systems seem to shy away from rule enforcement so that's why the behaviors continue.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

My kid's private school has weeklong detention for students who have their phone out during school hrs. That would never fly at my public school. Students just wouldn't show up to detention.

You realize this is for mcps and there is a private school forum for you.

Rude. Many people have children in both public and private school depending on individual circumstances. You have no idea what PP‘s children’s circumstances are.

NP.. sure, but I don't think the private school poster realizes that public schools must educate everyone, and not the select few that they accept. Public schools can't kick a kid out for just violating cell phone use policy or missing detention 3x in a row.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

My kid's private school has weeklong detention for students who have their phone out during school hrs. That would never fly at my public school. Students just wouldn't show up to detention.

You realize this is for mcps and there is a private school forum for you.

Rude. Many people have children in both public and private school depending on individual circumstances. You have no idea what PP‘s children’s circumstances are.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

My kid's private school has weeklong detention for students who have their phone out during school hrs. That would never fly at my public school. Students just wouldn't show up to detention.

You realize this is for mcps and there is a private school forum for you.

Anonymous wrote:Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

My kid's private school has weeklong detention for students who have their phone out during school hrs. That would never fly at my public school. Students just wouldn't show up to detention.

Another reason phones should never be allowed in classrooms. Should have phones allowed only with special permission by admin at parent request and they needed to be dropped off in the office daily. Suspension for kids that don’t listen.

OP this has been a thing since cell phones.
Nothing new here. Middle schoolers being idiots

Last year my daughter told me kids are taking pics of people’s feet at the toilet

Giving our kids phones was a mistake.

They snap or be real it. Yes this is a thing. Kids got suspended for it at our middle school.

According to my son, kids are joining each other in stalls to photograph one another on the toilet. He wouldn't say what they are doing with them. Is this really a thing?