Our middle school doesn’t allow phones at all. If you are caught using one your kid is subject to suspension. I think it’s great because the kids have to talk to each other and socialize. We are at Christ Episcopal School in Rockville.

I am an US STA parent, and I am so thrilled by this! I did not attend the PA meeting, but I absolutely support banning phones.

New poster here. I applaud Holton and STA if they are banning phones in the upper school. We are an incoming family at the US at NCS who would back school admin if they moved in this direction.

Anonymous wrote:I would like to hear more. Do any private schools confiscate phones?

For the school day, yes.

I would like to hear more. Do any private schools confiscate phones?

Potomac is incredibly strict k-8. Kids can't even have apple watches during the day. They expanded that policy this current year up to include 7th & 8th, and everyone has been pleased w/ the change. In US they can have phones during the day but need to put them in baskets when entering a class

Anonymous wrote:And when your kid goes to college???

Yeah not the right answer people, you failed.

FFS---you create the habits and break the addiction before.

You don't throw your hands up and put your head in the sand.

The kids that are going to succeed are the ones that can communicate and function outside of a screen...and look people in the eye and not spend all the time in their dorm room getting spoon fed tik tok and SM and gaming addictions.

Read the 'Anxious Generation' just out and teens/young adult mental health studies. EYE-opening.

Then read the public school systems that have successfully eliminated cell phones from the school and the huge benefits and change they are seeing. They have the kids put them in pouches when they arrive that are unlocked when they leave.

All for it!!!!!!!!!!! We are fighting our kid who gets on the iphone at lunch and throughout study breaks. We started watching/monitoring the time. All the kids are on them playing Brawl stars or on social media when they could be interacting w/out screens. And this is a HS that does not allow phones to be out in academic buildings.

I so wish they would put a kibosh on them. It's a culture thing. Just a couple parents can't make the change.

STA is preparing a major change in their phone policy also for next year. They announced some of it at a parent's meeting yesterday.

Anonymous wrote:And when your kid goes to college???

Yeah not the right answer people, you failed.

Turns out that laptops in college have a detrimental effect on learning.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131521001305

In general laptops being used for off-task activities distract everyone who can see the screen.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131520301007

Think that phones are any different? Colleges have been fighting this battle for over a decade now, which is why some professors started declaring screen free spaces ages ago.

And when your kid goes to college???

Yeah not the right answer people, you failed.

I love this. Our middle school now collects phones at the door and stores them during the day. I hope more schools follow.

Holton is going to basically ban phones next year during the day.

Name the schools that are supposedly implementing changes. That's not going to out you in any way.

I'm hearing a couple of schools are implementing significant changes to mobile phone usage rules for their students next year. Has anyone heard any more details about what that might entail? We are trying to push our school and wondering what others are doing next year.