Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 11:41     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.


But when you give your kid a phone and they decide "how [THEY] use it", kids are using it during class time distracting themselves and their classmates which takes away from classwork time and teachers having to spend time telling students with a phone to put it away or taking the phone away when students don't do it. So, for those parents who say "don't need the state raising our kids", are you volunteering to sit in on your kid's classes to mitigate your kid's phone/device usage during class time? Do YOU plan to raise YOUR kid?


Of course those parents won't come in to sit in on their child's class. why would they when that means taking time away from their own phones?
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 11:31     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
And whatchya gonna do with decoy phones?
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 11:22     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
https://www.change.org/p/phone-free-dmv-schools
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 11:22     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Anonymous wrote:Link to the petition started by the DMV Families for Phone-Free Schools:

https://www.change.org/p/phone-free-dmv-schools

"We urge the Boards of Education in all school districts in the DMV to implement a phone-free policy in all schools which mandates that phones, smartwatches, and other personal mobile devices be turned off and stowed away during the school day."
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 11:20     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Anonymous wrote:Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.


But when you give your kid a phone and they decide "how [THEY] use it", kids are using it during class time distracting themselves and their classmates which takes away from classwork time and teachers having to spend time telling students with a phone to put it away or taking the phone away when students don't do it. So, for those parents who say "don't need the state raising our kids", are you volunteering to sit in on your kid's classes to mitigate your kid's phone/device usage during class time? Do YOU plan to raise YOUR kid?
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 10:37     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Anonymous wrote:Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.


Agree. The same parents complaining about it are the same ones on their phones.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 10:28     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Can we also start a petition to not waste time and money on this nonsense?

Let parents decide if their kids need a phone and how they use it.

We don't need the state raising our kids. It's just an expensive booneodggle that will never work.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 10:12     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
This is the link to the petition I received: https://www.change.org/p/phone-free-dmv-schools
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2024 09:52     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Anonymous wrote:This policy already exists, teachers are powerless because they can't confiscate phones anymore and students become violent when pushed.


90% of the time, I can get the kid to surrender the phone until the end of my class. The alternative is that I call security which would require parent contact to get the phone back.

This was the first year that I encountered multiple students with decoy phones.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2024 19:46     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Most schools have the policy on the sites and in the student handbook too

https://pprd.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/mvms/news-index/new-mcps-cell-phone-policy/
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2024 19:34     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Anonymous wrote:This policy already exists, teachers are powerless because they can't confiscate phones anymore and students become violent when pushed.

Could you share details about this policy?
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2024 19:13     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
This policy already exists, teachers are powerless because they can't confiscate phones anymore and students become violent when pushed.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2024 17:54     Subject: Re:petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
I know not public schools, but the Archdiocese of Arlington has decided that no smart phones be allowed in their high schools even in the hallways and cafeteria.
I applaud this approach.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2024 17:52     Subject: Re:petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
link?
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2024 16:45     Subject: petition: Phone-Free DMV Schools
Link to the petition started by the DMV Families for Phone-Free Schools:


"We urge the Boards of Education in all school districts in the DMV to implement a phone-free policy in all schools which mandates that phones, smartwatches, and other personal mobile devices be turned off and stowed away during the school day."