Anonymous
Post 09/26/2023 04:41     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:Banneker High School is the only school that takes phones in morning and gives them back at end of day. Wish other schools would do this as well.



Banneker installed phone lockers (like they have in the lobby of SCIFs). It’s brilliant.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 23:19     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought someone else would have posted this by now, but really? They're going to issue each kid a Yondr pouch, require daily use, and CONFISCATE phones for a whole term if not used? I can't even imagine how many kids are going to miss buses because they have to wait to unlock their pouch. This is what DCPS spends money on.


Don’t Deal students take metro/metrobus? If you miss one bus, you just take the next one.


Because transit and schools don't talk to one another, there are two busses for all of the kids at the time when school gets out (to my neighborhood - just one to others). My kid has missed practice because last year she had to hustle from the back of the building to the front to catch the bus in time. If I was at work, she had to walk 40 minutes home. Not the end of the world, but when backpacks are heavy, weather is bad, crime is up... it's definitely not ideal. And if she can't get her technology for 1) Me to track where she is and 2) Her to let us know where she is or what's going on... pretty not okay.


What kind of snowflakes are we raising that a kid can't walk 40 minutes to get home? Middle schoolers should be able to negotiate this basic stuff without needing to check in with their paranoid mothers.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 23:13     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:I don't love this idea. With all the school shootings going on, I want my kid to be able to call 911 when he needs to.


Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 22:20     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:I think Banneker is the only public high school that does this. Correct me if I am wrong. Kids are actually interacting at lunchtime instead of being on a phone.


Walls and Jackson-Reed absolutely do not take phones.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 19:08     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
I think Banneker is the only public high school that does this. Correct me if I am wrong. Kids are actually interacting at lunchtime instead of being on a phone.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 14:28     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:Banneker High School is the only school that takes phones in morning and gives them back at end of day. Wish other schools would do this as well.


?? Hardy and Deal both do this. I think there are others, too.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2023 14:23     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Banneker High School is the only school that takes phones in morning and gives them back at end of day. Wish other schools would do this as well.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 13:41     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:dang it, why can't MCPS do this.


Everyone should do it. We're at another DCPS and our PTA is already looking into it. It's such an obvious solution to something that the vast majority of parents and pretty much all teachers and administrators view as one of the biggest problems in MS and HS.


DCPS should just adopt this policy across the board. Cell phones at school are hands down the biggest distraction.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 12:57     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:dang it, why can't MCPS do this.


Everyone should do it. We're at another DCPS and our PTA is already looking into it. It's such an obvious solution to something that the vast majority of parents and pretty much all teachers and administrators view as one of the biggest problems in MS and HS.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 12:54     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
dang it, why can't MCPS do this.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 12:52     Subject: Re:Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:I’m just curious to know if these have started being used? And how they are going they are going? They are to be implementing them in my child’s school.


My kid has been using theirs for a couple of weeks, no problems. She reports it's really easy.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 12:41     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
It’s been easy and lovely.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 12:19     Subject: Re:Yondr Pouches at Deal
I’m just curious to know if these have started being used? And how they are going they are going? They are to be implementing them in my child’s school.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2023 16:11     Subject: Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Kids do not need cell phones while in school. I cannot believe parents have issues with this new rule. Dependency on cell phones is not healthy.


Kids were not allowed to have their phones in school last year. They kept them in lockers. I have no objection to this.

My objection is to the inevitable extra 20 minutes it will take to dismiss 1500 kids when each one has to swipe a pouch over a magnet before they leave. Do you think the D32 will wait?


And they didn’t keep them there given the hundreds of deal tik toks made…


How else are they gonna document fights?
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2023 13:07     Subject: Re:Yondr Pouches at Deal
Anonymous wrote:Does the pouch policy apply to watches?


Yes, at orientation they said it applies to smart phones, smart watches, and airpods.