Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are supposed to show their ID on this phones at entry now, but APS is going to ban phones?

Make it make sense APS!!!

Don't be so purposely provocatively obtuse.
First of all, students are issued physical ID cards.
Second of all, even if they were only digital (requiring every student to own a smart phone?!), obviously they can show it on their phone as they enter the building before they put their phone away. They are not required to have their phones off and away until the first bell.

The Arlington high schools have “partial” open campus and academic buildings separate from the main building. So the digital id phone pass to phone pouch won’t quite work.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are supposed to show their ID on this phones at entry now, but APS is going to ban phones?

Make it make sense APS!!!

Don't be so purposely provocatively obtuse.
First of all, students are issued physical ID cards.
Second of all, even if they were only digital (requiring every student to own a smart phone?!), obviously they can show it on their phone as they enter the building before they put their phone away. They are not required to have their phones off and away until the first bell.

Or they can show it on their laptop. Which is stupid; but if you insist a phone ban precludes them from providing identification....

Anonymous wrote:They are supposed to show their ID on this phones at entry now, but APS is going to ban phones?

Make it make sense APS!!!

Don't be so purposely provocatively obtuse.
First of all, students are issued physical ID cards.
Second of all, even if they were only digital (requiring every student to own a smart phone?!), obviously they can show it on their phone as they enter the building before they put their phone away. They are not required to have their phones off and away until the first bell.

Anonymous wrote:More information - https://www.arlnow.com/2024/10/30/intruder-arrested-at-yorktown-high-school/

He must have been behaving in a belligerent manner. Usually former students are welcome at their schools.

No.

They are supposed to show their ID on this phones at entry now, but APS is going to ban phones?

Make it make sense APS!!!

Anonymous wrote:With intruders getting into schools it’s scary that they want to take away kids cell phones. I want my kid to be able to call 911.

Because your kid knows every person who is and is not authorized to be in the building at any given time?
Or, so they can call 911 every time they see someone they don't recognize walking somewhere in the building?
Clearly, this situation was caught and handled without students using their phones to call 911. And certainly they would not have stopped the un-authorized student from entering the building or at any point sooner than happened.

There is no reason for schools to allow anyone, former student or not, to roam around a school building. It’s way too much of a safety risk. A former student could have bad intentions or be a criminal

With intruders getting into schools it’s scary that they want to take away kids cell phones. I want my kid to be able to call 911.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More information - https://www.arlnow.com/2024/10/30/intruder-arrested-at-yorktown-high-school/

He must have been behaving in a belligerent manner. Usually former students are welcome at their schools.

Not anymore. Last year my 9th grader wanted to visit a middle school teacher after school. We went to the office, where they had us sign in & told us we could not enter the rest of the school; they would bring the teacher to us in the office.

At my other kid’s elementary, a couple of of former students in middle school came to visit after school one day (during extended day) and were not welcome to go visit teachers.

My DD just heard the same thing from her former middle school. She was hoping to stop by and see a few teachers and was told she could come after school lets out but could not visit classrooms as kids had done in the past.

Anonymous wrote:More information - https://www.arlnow.com/2024/10/30/intruder-arrested-at-yorktown-high-school/

He must have been behaving in a belligerent manner. Usually former students are welcome at their schools.

Not anymore. Last year my 9th grader wanted to visit a middle school teacher after school. We went to the office, where they had us sign in & told us we could not enter the rest of the school; they would bring the teacher to us in the office.

At my other kid’s elementary, a couple of of former students in middle school came to visit after school one day (during extended day) and were not welcome to go visit teachers.

I should have said some parents are irrationally worried about cell phones being THE issue.

Anonymous wrote:And schools are worried about cell phones being the issue.

AN issue. Not THE issue.
Entirely irrelevant.

And schools are worried about cell phones being the issue.

More information - https://www.arlnow.com/2024/10/30/intruder-arrested-at-yorktown-high-school/

He must have been behaving in a belligerent manner. Usually former students are welcome at their schools.

Anyone know anything about the intruder arrested at YHS?