Anonymous
02/12/2026 18:22
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Anonymous wrote:They probably have to have MFA (multifactor authentication) to qualify for cyber insurance— and since I want the district to keep my kids’ info safe and have an insurance policy when (and I do mean when) they are hit with a cyberattack, yes, I fully support teachers using devices for MFA. Be mad at the cyber criminals that have made this necessary for all of us in every job, not at the district.
FCPS teachers have been doing this for some time.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 18:18
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No offense, op, but this is very common in the corporate world.
In the corporate world, if you have to use your phone, they often give you a $50 or so stipend monthly for it.
If you had to use it for work calls yes, but probably not if you were just using it for 2 Factor authentication
Yes, they would and do.
Not always
Anonymous
02/12/2026 17:37
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No offense, op, but this is very common in the corporate world.
In the corporate world, if you have to use your phone, they often give you a $50 or so stipend monthly for it.
If you had to use it for work calls yes, but probably not if you were just using it for 2 Factor authentication
Yes, they would and do.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 17:34
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
You can just say you tried the app and it won't work. They have to give you some other way to access work email other than your personal phone. If they require you to do something for work, they have to provide you the equipment to do it, so there has to be some device or computer available to you at school for email, of course this may be less convenient for you, but if everyone did that they'd probably get rid of it. I use my phone to log in but they text me a code, I don't need an app.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 17:10
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
you can ask for a token but they are annoying i prefer ms authenticator
Anonymous
02/12/2026 16:48
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No offense, op, but this is very common in the corporate world.
In the corporate world, if you have to use your phone, they often give you a $50 or so stipend monthly for it.
If you had to use it for work calls yes, but probably not if you were just using it for 2 Factor authentication
Anonymous
02/12/2026 16:41
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Anonymous wrote:No offense, op, but this is very common in the corporate world.
In the corporate world, if you have to use your phone, they often give you a $50 or so stipend monthly for it.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 16:35
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
So APS said personal phones were evil and had to be eradicated from classrooms and were definitely not needed bc of APS devices. And now they are necessary? make it make sense!
Anonymous
02/12/2026 10:18
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
They probably have to have MFA (multifactor authentication) to qualify for cyber insurance— and since I want the district to keep my kids’ info safe and have an insurance policy when (and I do mean when) they are hit with a cyberattack, yes, I fully support teachers using devices for MFA. Be mad at the cyber criminals that have made this necessary for all of us in every job, not at the district.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 09:09
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Anonymous wrote:APS is requiring all staff to download the Microsoft authenticator app onto their phones to login into the APS network even while at school.
Please write the school board and let them know how ridiculous this is.
Many staff are provided APS phones and for them this is no problem
But for teachers this seems like an invasion into personal space and completely untenable in the classroom.
Apparently, every time a teacher wants to login into a smart board, computer, iPad APS is expecting them to pull out their personal phone to get a code
And many teacher teachers have a school issued iPad. APS pulled the Microsoft authenticator app off those iPads and is requiring staff to use their personal devices.
Please write to the school board and let them know how ridiculous this policy is. We are hoping public pressure will force them to give us alternate MFA options.
As others have alluded to, this is not the hill you want to die on OP.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 09:07
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Anonymous wrote:No offense, op, but this is very common in the corporate world.
Not so. In my corp. job, they offered for me to use my personal phone or they would pay for me to have another "personal" phone with all their corp spywear on it. Also, MS authenticator is a huge PIA.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 07:42
Subject: Re:APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Do a little research. This app isn't stealing your personal data.Anonymous wrote:You are right OP
Get a burner phone and download the app
I would never put work apps on my personal phone. The software companies have the ability to get a lot of information off your phone.
It's just that most companies don't need all that info, instead they choose to only see things that relate to the job. Most right now dont want to be too intrusive.
The problem is not that your school wants to put this app on your phone. The problem is the third party software they use to do this can access more than the school needs.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 07:35
Subject: Re:APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
You are right OP
Get a burner phone and download the app
I would never put work apps on my personal phone. The software companies have the ability to get a lot of information off your phone.
It's just that most companies don't need all that info, instead they choose to only see things that relate to the job. Most right now dont want to be too intrusive.
The problem is not that your school wants to put this app on your phone. The problem is the third party software they use to do this can access more than the school needs.
Get a burner phone and download the app
I would never put work apps on my personal phone. The software companies have the ability to get a lot of information off your phone.
It's just that most companies don't need all that info, instead they choose to only see things that relate to the job. Most right now dont want to be too intrusive.
The problem is not that your school wants to put this app on your phone. The problem is the third party software they use to do this can access more than the school needs.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 07:27
Subject: Re:APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Please stop. This kind of crap gives teachers a bad name. You are wildly out of touch with how the workforce functions outside of your bubble and it’s embarrassing.
Anonymous
02/12/2026 07:21
Subject: APS Requiring Teachers to Download App on Personal Phoned
Get a dumb phone for during school. Keep your real one in your purse and use the school computer to log on, and if you can't reply to many emails on time, then, oh well.