Anonymous
06/09/2025 17:25
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:I am not an absolutist. I agree that cellphones have no place during instructional time, but I'm less worried about lunch and transitions, particularly in high school. How can kids learn how to use tech responsibly if we take it away from them until they graduate?
There were very convincing arguments about flexibility too, about how kids used phones for in-class projects at teachers' discretion prior to the total ban.
Why does everything have to be black and white? The people who are cheering about the cellphone ban are now gunning for the iPads and laptops. Which again, I can be convinced really aren't developmentally appropriate in K-2, but older kids gotta learn about it anyway to remain part of an interconnected global society.
I remember someone saying in the old AEM that it was just election-year red meat. I agree.
+1
Outside agitators trying to stir things up.
Let the schools/teachers decide what works best for them.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 17:18
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:[img]Anonymous wrote: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.
You want to take away laptops from high school students? You have just lost all credibility in this argument.
In class? Absolutely.
Many teachers have the students doing class assignments on the laptops during class.
Exactly. It's totally unrealistic and it doesn't make sense to take away laptops. My DD's teachers have them doing work in class on their laptops. They have block scheduling, and often part of the class is for teaching and part is for doing work/applying what they just learned. They access learning apps, do research, etc., on these laptops. APS has placed restrictions on them, so they can't access much beyond what's required for class.
Also, the world is tech based at this point and, honestly, they will use laptops throughout high school and college. SATs, APs - everything is online now. Kids need to learn how to live in a technology-oriented world. I can't even imagine them not having access to this stuff.
The internet is terrible for doing research. They should be in the library or have a textbook.
Learning apps are a complete joke, just a game to babysit while the work with high need kids or grade papers.
I’m in tech, you really should see how the leaders in tech are having their own kids learn.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sherry-turkle-why-tech-moguls-send-their-kids-to-anti-tech-schools-2017-11?op=1
Maybe that has changed in the last 6 years, but I suspect tech leaders have just gotten quieter about the private schools they send their kids.
The internet is terrible for research?? Have you ever heard of google scholar? Even when I was in grad school 15 years ago, most academic journals had moved online. If an elementary kid wants to learn about frogs— I agree, a book is better. But for a HS kid, it’s different. Kids enrolled in AP seminar & research have access to academic journals online the way college kids do. I think books are great, but it depends on what type of information you need, how specific, and how up to date.
You are talking about curated academic repositories, yes those are very helpful and online access is the standard now.
But 90% of students don’t need internet access to write their research paper on the civil war, because they won’t be able to filter though the wall of bad amateur “history” in their “research”. They aren’t looking at academic research like Google scholar, they should be referencing books not RebelBlog(tm).
Anonymous
06/09/2025 16:51
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:[img]Anonymous wrote: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.
You want to take away laptops from high school students? You have just lost all credibility in this argument.
In class? Absolutely.
Many teachers have the students doing class assignments on the laptops during class.
Exactly. It's totally unrealistic and it doesn't make sense to take away laptops. My DD's teachers have them doing work in class on their laptops. They have block scheduling, and often part of the class is for teaching and part is for doing work/applying what they just learned. They access learning apps, do research, etc., on these laptops. APS has placed restrictions on them, so they can't access much beyond what's required for class.
Also, the world is tech based at this point and, honestly, they will use laptops throughout high school and college. SATs, APs - everything is online now. Kids need to learn how to live in a technology-oriented world. I can't even imagine them not having access to this stuff.
The internet is terrible for doing research. They should be in the library or have a textbook.
Learning apps are a complete joke, just a game to babysit while the work with high need kids or grade papers.
I’m in tech, you really should see how the leaders in tech are having their own kids learn.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sherry-turkle-why-tech-moguls-send-their-kids-to-anti-tech-schools-2017-11?op=1
Maybe that has changed in the last 6 years, but I suspect tech leaders have just gotten quieter about the private schools they send their kids.
The internet is terrible for research?? Have you ever heard of google scholar? Even when I was in grad school 15 years ago, most academic journals had moved online. If an elementary kid wants to learn about frogs— I agree, a book is better. But for a HS kid, it’s different. Kids enrolled in AP seminar & research have access to academic journals online the way college kids do. I think books are great, but it depends on what type of information you need, how specific, and how up to date.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 15:15
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:I am not an absolutist. I agree that cellphones have no place during instructional time, but I'm less worried about lunch and transitions, particularly in high school. How can kids learn how to use tech responsibly if we take it away from them until they graduate?
There were very convincing arguments about flexibility too, about how kids used phones for in-class projects at teachers' discretion prior to the total ban.
Why does everything have to be black and white? The people who are cheering about the cellphone ban are now gunning for the iPads and laptops. Which again, I can be convinced really aren't developmentally appropriate in K-2, but older kids gotta learn about it anyway to remain part of an interconnected global society.
I remember someone saying in the old AEM that it was just election-year red meat. I agree.
Because we tried it your way and we have overwhelming evidence that kids cannot keep their hands off their phones. They cannot put them down and just use them during non instructional time. They are distracting because companies have designed them that way. And now we as adults need to be step in and recognize that your way failed.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 14:35
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:[img]Anonymous wrote: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.
You want to take away laptops from high school students? You have just lost all credibility in this argument.
In class? Absolutely.
Many teachers have the students doing class assignments on the laptops during class.
Exactly. It's totally unrealistic and it doesn't make sense to take away laptops. My DD's teachers have them doing work in class on their laptops. They have block scheduling, and often part of the class is for teaching and part is for doing work/applying what they just learned. They access learning apps, do research, etc., on these laptops. APS has placed restrictions on them, so they can't access much beyond what's required for class.
Also, the world is tech based at this point and, honestly, they will use laptops throughout high school and college. SATs, APs - everything is online now. Kids need to learn how to live in a technology-oriented world. I can't even imagine them not having access to this stuff.
The internet is terrible for doing research. They should be in the library or have a textbook.
Learning apps are a complete joke, just a game to babysit while the work with high need kids or grade papers.
I’m in tech, you really should see how the leaders in tech are having their own kids learn.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sherry-turkle-why-tech-moguls-send-their-kids-to-anti-tech-schools-2017-11?op=1
Maybe that has changed in the last 6 years, but I suspect tech leaders have just gotten quieter about the private schools they send their kids.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 14:24
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:[img]Anonymous wrote: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.
You want to take away laptops from high school students? You have just lost all credibility in this argument.
In class? Absolutely.
Many teachers have the students doing class assignments on the laptops during class.
Exactly. It's totally unrealistic and it doesn't make sense to take away laptops. My DD's teachers have them doing work in class on their laptops. They have block scheduling, and often part of the class is for teaching and part is for doing work/applying what they just learned. They access learning apps, do research, etc., on these laptops. APS has placed restrictions on them, so they can't access much beyond what's required for class.
Also, the world is tech based at this point and, honestly, they will use laptops throughout high school and college. SATs, APs - everything is online now. Kids need to learn how to live in a technology-oriented world. I can't even imagine them not having access to this stuff.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 14:16
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These anti tech wacko parents have no idea what's actually going on in schools.
We have a clear eye view of what is happening in classrooms, look at long term trends
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/
2012 is when laptops started showing up in high school classes
https://www.arlnow.com/2014/08/27/aps-to-give-hs-freshmen-macbooks/
Exactly why is it necessary that class work must be assigned and completed on a computer?
haha you read a few articles and think you know it all. You don't.
I backed my claim with data and historical reference. You said nothing.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 14:00
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These anti tech wacko parents have no idea what's actually going on in schools.
We have a clear eye view of what is happening in classrooms, look at long term trends
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/
2012 is when laptops started showing up in high school classes
https://www.arlnow.com/2014/08/27/aps-to-give-hs-freshmen-macbooks/
Exactly why is it necessary that class work must be assigned and completed on a computer?
haha you read a few articles and think you know it all. You don't.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 13:57
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Do you want to go back to horses and buggies too?
Anonymous
06/09/2025 13:39
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:These anti tech wacko parents have no idea what's actually going on in schools.
Clearly others are wondering why we need laptops in class. Students should be issue a laptop to do homework on, as not everyone can afford one.
But in the classroom? Not necessary.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/03/25/schools-are-banning-phones-what-about-laptops/
Anonymous
06/09/2025 13:37
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:These anti tech wacko parents have no idea what's actually going on in schools.
We have a clear eye view of what is happening in classrooms, look at long term trends
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/
2012 is when laptops started showing up in high school classes
https://www.arlnow.com/2014/08/27/aps-to-give-hs-freshmen-macbooks/
Exactly why is it necessary that class work must be assigned and completed on a computer?
Anonymous
06/09/2025 12:36
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
These anti tech wacko parents have no idea what's actually going on in schools.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 12:32
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:[img]Anonymous wrote: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.
You want to take away laptops from high school students? You have just lost all credibility in this argument.
In class? Absolutely.
Many teachers have the students doing class assignments on the laptops during class.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 12:03
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
Anonymous wrote:[img]Anonymous wrote: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.
You want to take away laptops from high school students? You have just lost all credibility in this argument.
In class? Absolutely.
I’m one of the other posters and I would also support a laptop ban. For the record, I’m not a part of the union either. That poster spouting off the research about scientists and the union backing lost the respect of most teachers actually in the classroom.
Anonymous
06/09/2025 11:43
Subject: Storage Pouches for APS High Schools
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In class? Absolutely.
Anonymous wrote: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.
You want to take away laptops from high school students? You have just lost all credibility in this argument.
In class? Absolutely.