Anonymous wrote:I think the IDs and "new" phone policy are great.

IDs - there is something to be said for the habit of remembering and professionalism of displaying your ID. This prepares kids to work for McDonalds or Northrop Grumman.

Phones - FTLOG students do better without phones in their hands in class. Our HS has the pockets in each room and teachers have been using them. My kid has less homework, more focus, and teachers are visibly happier (as of BTSN). They also mentioned that they grab them to go in drills, and they practiced this, so honestly, I see no issues. My kid still checks it at lunch and on occasion. Getting the phone out of their hands 80% of the time is a major win for me. I am a college professor who sees kids watch Netflix in class on the regular, which is just mindblowing to see.

Are there discussions at your college about disrupting that behavior, or no?

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to lose their IDs. Lanyards will become a nuisance and be used in roughhousing or catching on a corner and knocking someone over.

How about scanning students' palms? will McPs be able to get such "technology" in this century?

Much better than forcing kids to wear their IDs around their necks on lanyards, which won’t be effective at all once the cold & flu and COVID surges spike again and kids are all masked up while they walk the halls.

I think the IDs and "new" phone policy are great.

IDs - there is something to be said for the habit of remembering and professionalism of displaying your ID. This prepares kids to work for McDonalds or Northrop Grumman.

Phones - FTLOG students do better without phones in their hands in class. Our HS has the pockets in each room and teachers have been using them. My kid has less homework, more focus, and teachers are visibly happier (as of BTSN). They also mentioned that they grab them to go in drills, and they practiced this, so honestly, I see no issues. My kid still checks it at lunch and on occasion. Getting the phone out of their hands 80% of the time is a major win for me. I am a college professor who sees kids watch Netflix in class on the regular, which is just mindblowing to see.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to lose their IDs. Lanyards will become a nuisance and be used in roughhousing or catching on a corner and knocking someone over.

How about scanning students' palms? will McPs be able to get such "technology" in this century?

I can't tell: was that intended as a serious suggestion, or an example of something terrifying and probably illegal?

you can pay that way in stores. Please keep up with society.

There’s no way in hell I’m giving Amazon my biodata just so I don’t have to pull out my wallet to pay at Whole Foods.

I was struck that in the Post interview he said the priority was not academics — it was safety. It really underscores how much work he has to do that right now academics can’t be a priority in a school system.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to lose their IDs. Lanyards will become a nuisance and be used in roughhousing or catching on a corner and knocking someone over.

How about scanning students' palms? will McPs be able to get such "technology" in this century?

I can't tell: was that intended as a serious suggestion, or an example of something terrifying and probably illegal?

you can pay that way in stores. Please keep up with society.

You want all students in MCPS to have to provide a biometric that could be handed over to law enforcement? Or stolen, after which it can never be replaced?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to lose their IDs. Lanyards will become a nuisance and be used in roughhousing or catching on a corner and knocking someone over.

How about scanning students' palms? will McPs be able to get such "technology" in this century?

I can't tell: was that intended as a serious suggestion, or an example of something terrifying and probably illegal?

you can pay that way in stores. Please keep up with society.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to lose their IDs. Lanyards will become a nuisance and be used in roughhousing or catching on a corner and knocking someone over.

How about scanning students' palms? will McPs be able to get such "technology" in this century?

I can't tell: was that intended as a serious suggestion, or an example of something terrifying and probably illegal?

Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to lose their IDs. Lanyards will become a nuisance and be used in roughhousing or catching on a corner and knocking someone over.

How about scanning students' palms? will McPs be able to get such "technology" in this century?

Anonymous wrote:One of Taylor's initiatives (I think) is to get schools to actually enforce the Student ID requirement.

I'll be interested to see if it works. My kid (10th) left the house today wearing his ID because he wants to get candy, which has apparently been promised to students and staff who show up wearing their ID per the rules.

However, it was interesting to see that my kid, who is normally the most rules-following, optimistic, least cynical, person I know saying that he doesn't think the rule will last the month.

I explained the reasoning behind it, and he seemed to understand, but I think managing to get this one thing enforced will increase my personal confidence that Taylor is willing to see initiatives through to the end.

They need to give out candy to make sure students wear IDs? Whatever happened to not accepting candy that you taught your kid?

Anonymous wrote:Please MCPS administrators or families still complaining about mva, your complaints on items not related to thread title are getting all threads locked. STOP.

Hint this forum does not permit discussion of Taylor.

Look at the deleted threads!

Anonymous wrote:I mean, OP isn't doing any favors by opening this thread by talking about the MVA.

If OP wants us to talk about Taylor, maybe give us a link, or a question, or make an observation of their own?

That now-locked Taylor discussion was opened to talk about Taylor's plans for MCPS and how or what he is doing before schools opened. You can go back to that locked-thread to read if you forgot.

Anonymous wrote:But let's talk about Taylor. What has he done to bring back the MVA? Or reinstate masking requirements with covid, parvovirus, and H5N1 raging in the community? Or upgrade HVAC systems for higher rates of air changes? Or sending kids home with covid symptoms?

Um, like working you know down in Stafford Co VA??

Anonymous wrote:You're so threatened by the MVA that you don't even want people to talk about it? You must be a BoE member. Or maybe Taylor himself.

Hi Lynne Harris!

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are going to lose their IDs. Lanyards will become a nuisance and be used in roughhousing or catching on a corner and knocking someone over.

Last year we were told to use the id via their phone and no replacement.

The phones that we're also simultaneously trying to ban in schools? Seems those two policies are in conflict with one another.