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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1

I did not and do not have problems with phone use in my classroom. I set expectations at the beginning of the year. I have rarely had issues, and when I have, I know how to respond, just as with any other disruption to class.

I do not want to spend my time policing pouches either in or out of class. With the tight budget issues, I cannot believe APS spent money on pouches.

You are sock puppeting pretending to be a teacher. Every teacher knows that there is no discipline options for phone disruptions. The front office just sends them right back, and you can’t take their phones. What exactly do you do when a student is watching TikTok in class?

Teachers can take phones. My kid has had hers taken a few times earlier in the year. It spent a long time in the office before we retrieved it. I told the kid I’m not getting it if it happens again so no more issues.

Is that part of the new policy, as it was mentioned several times they couldn’t.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I posted way above about scientists, teachers, most parents being on the same side — banning phones — versus minority of oarents + students. And then we, of course, we have random teachers who say no, no, we love phones, phones aren’t a problem. Ok, fine, I do not doubt for a minute that there are some of you and I don’t doubt that some of you had your classrooms under control. Unfortunately, you are a tiny tiny minority. Both in Arlington (and nationally) teachers unions overwhelmingly support cell phone bans. So, again, the adults in the school + scientists + most parents support the ban.

“According to a 2024 National Education Association survey of its members, 90 percent of teachers supported prohibiting cell phones during instructional time, while 83 percent supported banning cell phones for the entire day.”

And the APS teachers union also weighed in in favor of the ban.

What % of APS teachers actually belong to that teachers union?

Anonymous wrote:NP. I posted way above about scientists, teachers, most parents being on the same side — banning phones — versus minority of oarents + students. And then we, of course, we have random teachers who say no, no, we love phones, phones aren’t a problem. Ok, fine, I do not doubt for a minute that there are some of you and I don’t doubt that some of you had your classrooms under control. Unfortunately, you are a tiny tiny minority. Both in Arlington (and nationally) teachers unions overwhelmingly support cell phone bans. So, again, the adults in the school + scientists + most parents support the ban.

“According to a 2024 National Education Association survey of its members, 90 percent of teachers supported prohibiting cell phones during instructional time, while 83 percent supported banning cell phones for the entire day.”

And the APS teachers union also weighed in in favor of the ban.

Anonymous wrote:[twitter]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1

I did not and do not have problems with phone use in my classroom. I set expectations at the beginning of the year. I have rarely had issues, and when I have, I know how to respond, just as with any other disruption to class.

I do not want to spend my time policing pouches either in or out of class. With the tight budget issues, I cannot believe APS spent money on pouches.

You are sock puppeting pretending to be a teacher. Every teacher knows that there is no discipline options for phone disruptions. The front office just sends them right back, and you can’t take their phones. What exactly do you do when a student is watching TikTok in class?

Teachers can take phones. My kid has had hers taken a few times earlier in the year. It spent a long time in the office before we retrieved it. I told the kid I’m not getting it if it happens again so no more issues.

Is that part of the new policy, as it was mentioned several times they couldn’t.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we don't agree with you.

Signed,

a teacher.

+1. I’ve been a big advocate against this as a HS teacher and parent. This law or bill or whatever it is has made my job more difficult this past year. Now someone else is dictating how I need to run my classroom when I didn’t have problems before. I do not agree with this.

How exactly does it change how you run your classroom? Why would it be harder than before?

Did you just ignore cell phone use before? Assume it’s not interpreting students near the perpetrator?

Now with the pouches, any phone in sight is a violation, not just a phone in use. Is that what you are offended by, that your disregard for the problem is now more obvious?

I’m not going to get into a back and forth with you since you started replying to each teacher and don’t believe there are more than one of us that don’t support this.

No, I did not allow phone before. They were not a problem. Like the other teacher, I set that expectation on day 1 and did not have students watching TikToks in class or huge amounts trying to sneak them. If one needed to send a text occasionally, they would ask me “can I text my mom about ….” You would be surprised how polite and rule following most kids are.

So then the ban comes and now they are taboo. Now I have a battle with laptops and behavior issues with those, where I never did before. I am told under no circumstances can we see a phone and must do xyz if we do. This is not helpful. I had it under control. Now I have classes of angry kids, trying to get around things on computers because they feel like their cell rights are violated when we didn’t have a problem before.

I’m still unclear. Before the ban, what exactly were your expectations? Like what did you say? I’m sure there were occasional infractions, how did you handle them then? You never had a kid noodling on his phone?

Can elaborate on the laptops? I would support getting rid of those as well.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1

I did not and do not have problems with phone use in my classroom. I set expectations at the beginning of the year. I have rarely had issues, and when I have, I know how to respond, just as with any other disruption to class.

I do not want to spend my time policing pouches either in or out of class. With the tight budget issues, I cannot believe APS spent money on pouches.

You are sock puppeting pretending to be a teacher. Every teacher knows that there is no discipline options for phone disruptions. The front office just sends them right back, and you can’t take their phones. What exactly do you do when a student is watching TikTok in class?

Teachers can take phones. My kid has had hers taken a few times earlier in the year. It spent a long time in the office before we retrieved it. I told the kid I’m not getting it if it happens again so no more issues.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we don't agree with you.

Signed,

a teacher.

+1. I’ve been a big advocate against this as a HS teacher and parent. This law or bill or whatever it is has made my job more difficult this past year. Now someone else is dictating how I need to run my classroom when I didn’t have problems before. I do not agree with this.

How exactly does it change how you run your classroom? Why would it be harder than before?

Did you just ignore cell phone use before? Assume it’s not interpreting students near the perpetrator?

Now with the pouches, any phone in sight is a violation, not just a phone in use. Is that what you are offended by, that your disregard for the problem is now more obvious?

I’m not going to get into a back and forth with you since you started replying to each teacher and don’t believe there are more than one of us that don’t support this.

No, I did not allow phone before. They were not a problem. Like the other teacher, I set that expectation on day 1 and did not have students watching TikToks in class or huge amounts trying to sneak them. If one needed to send a text occasionally, they would ask me “can I text my mom about ….” You would be surprised how polite and rule following most kids are.

So then the ban comes and now they are taboo. Now I have a battle with laptops and behavior issues with those, where I never did before. I am told under no circumstances can we see a phone and must do xyz if we do. This is not helpful. I had it under control. Now I have classes of angry kids, trying to get around things on computers because they feel like their cell rights are violated when we didn’t have a problem before.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1

I did not and do not have problems with phone use in my classroom. I set expectations at the beginning of the year. I have rarely had issues, and when I have, I know how to respond, just as with any other disruption to class.

I do not want to spend my time policing pouches either in or out of class. With the tight budget issues, I cannot believe APS spent money on pouches.

You are sock puppeting pretending to be a teacher. Every teacher knows that there is no discipline options for phone disruptions. The front office just sends them right back, and you can’t take their phones. What exactly do you do when a student is watching TikTok in class?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we don't agree with you.

Signed,

a teacher.

+1. I’ve been a big advocate against this as a HS teacher and parent. This law or bill or whatever it is has made my job more difficult this past year. Now someone else is dictating how I need to run my classroom when I didn’t have problems before. I do not agree with this.

How exactly does it change how you run your classroom? Why would it be harder than before?

Did you just ignore cell phone use before? Assume it’s not interpreting students near the perpetrator?

Now with the pouches, any phone in sight is a violation, not just a phone in use. Is that what you are offended by, that your disregard for the problem is now more obvious?

I’m not going to get into a back and forth with you since you started replying to each teacher and don’t believe there are more than one of us that don’t support this.

No, I did not allow phone before. They were not a problem. Like the other teacher, I set that expectation on day 1 and did not have students watching TikToks in class or huge amounts trying to sneak them. If one needed to send a text occasionally, they would ask me “can I text my mom about ….” You would be surprised how polite and rule following most kids are.

So then the ban comes and now they are taboo. Now I have a battle with laptops and behavior issues with those, where I never did before. I am told under no circumstances can we see a phone and must do xyz if we do. This is not helpful. I had it under control. Now I have classes of angry kids, trying to get around things on computers because they feel like their cell rights are violated when we didn’t have a problem before.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we don't agree with you.

Signed,

a teacher.

+1. I’ve been a big advocate against this as a HS teacher and parent. This law or bill or whatever it is has made my job more difficult this past year. Now someone else is dictating how I need to run my classroom when I didn’t have problems before. I do not agree with this.

How exactly does it change how you run your classroom? Why would it be harder than before?

Did you just ignore cell phone use before? Assume it’s not interpreting students near the perpetrator?

Now with the pouches, any phone in sight is a violation, not just a phone in use. Is that what you are offended by, that your disregard for the problem is now more obvious?

Anonymous wrote:+1

I did not and do not have problems with phone use in my classroom. I set expectations at the beginning of the year. I have rarely had issues, and when I have, I know how to respond, just as with any other disruption to class.

I do not want to spend my time policing pouches either in or out of class. With the tight budget issues, I cannot believe APS spent money on pouches.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we don't agree with you.

Signed,

a teacher.

+1. I’ve been a big advocate against this as a HS teacher and parent. This law or bill or whatever it is has made my job more difficult this past year. Now someone else is dictating how I need to run my classroom when I didn’t have problems before. I do not agree with this.