Anonymous wrote:They are technically banned in FCPS as well - however, kids are allowed to pull them out in advisory class, QST, lunch, passing periods, PE, and math class. It's a complete joke. Until schools get serious about banning phones, kids are going to continue to suffer.

In the video, it shows students putting the phones into locked pouches. If they did, the phone would not be available during the rest of the day.

I do wonder about kids who are addicted, but then shouldn't we be helping them to overcome the addiction? From what I have read, the phones are causing depression and anxiety.

Some kids are screen addicted. It is now being added to some IEPs this year that a student should avoid screens as much as possible. Not joking. These students are in my classroom. Some parents are finally waking up to the damage.

Until the teacher/school assume liability for the replacement cost of very expensive cell phones, the idea of “collecting” them seems a poor plan. If they want to say no cell phones, then storage issues come up. And some kids need access to summon help in the event of, for example, a life-threatening allergic reaction — because otherwise their life is in the hands of some random third party.

Trying to do this will become a danger to students who are addicted, literally addicted, to their phones. Try to mess with an addiction and their fix you are asking g to be attacked like has happened many times before. YouTube the girl who peppersprayed their teacher who took a phone or the kid who knocked out and stomped the teacher for the Nintendo device. I am sure the admin will support us against the violence lol. FAT CHANCE!

They are technically banned in FCPS as well - however, kids are allowed to pull them out in advisory class, QST, lunch, passing periods, PE, and math class. It's a complete joke. Until schools get serious about banning phones, kids are going to continue to suffer.

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Teachers should collect each phone at beginning of each.

No, not with all the safety and scheduling issues.

Rampant use of phones in work place too! Since most jobs are paper / e-paper pushing jobs, many people have time to surf. #brave new world. READ that book!

If it's not Tik Tok, it'll be YouTube. Teens are not only ones. One kid was complaining in class that his parents and older 11th grade brother are always on phone but he doesn't get a phone because he is only in 5th grade. Parents/adults - your kids are watching you!

Chinese are out to ruin our American teens with that TT?

In theory, they are banned aren’t they? At my kids MS, the teachers will take them if they see them. My daughter has even had it confiscated in the hallway when she took it out to check to see if I’d responded to one of her texts. It’s one reason the kids all cluster in the bathroom on their phones.

I think the issue is more enforcement. Especially the Hs teachers don’t want to be in a position of getting into a power struggle with some teen over their phone. If the teacher tries to confiscate the phone and the student refuses, are they gojng to suspend a student over that? Call the parents?

The phone issue is just sooooo not a big issue for me. I’d much rather the teachers have a functional way to clear the halls of disruptive students and confiscate vape pens. Banning the phones just increases the bathroom problem, as certain kids will spend the day is sitting in the stalls scrolling tiktok.

I’d be curious on the perspective of the HS teachers.

With all the SEL crap MCPS MSs, you would think banning cell phone usage would be one of their priorities. Geez, MCPS what can you do right?!

Cell phone bans (for students AND teachers) have also shown impacts on mental health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqz-H836HrI

Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxIWOKcAD1g