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Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

Because they're inflexible and if they can't instantly and immediately reach out to and hear from their kids at all times during the 6 hours they're in school, it's catastrophic.

It really is none of your business. I prefer my kids to have phones. Especially since it allows them film unacceptable behavior.

what do they do with the videos of unacceptable behavior?

Post them on social media or pass them around in group chats.

and that needs to stop and part of the reason why phones should be confiscated.

It's humiliating enough when a child is beat up on, but to relive it over and over through social media.. that can lead to severe mental health issues, as we saw with the 14 yr old girl in NJ.

Suppressing students first amendment rights is unamerican!

yes, allowing kids and crazy people to have guns is much more American

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Anonymous wrote:Kinda s/o to the fights and drugs threads.

Can the county ban cell phones in schools? I went to high school in the 90s and electronics were banned like beepers and the old brick cell phones. If somebody had a beeper, it would be confiscated and returned at the end of the day.

MCPS doesn't have the authority to confiscate personal property, nor should they have to especially to placate some crazies.

DP.. they don't have to confiscate it. They can use the pouches.

But, you are incorrect in stating that they don't have the right to confiscate personal property. If they bring something that is unsafe, they can take it away.

If you make it so that a teacher cannot confiscate things that they deem are distracting in a classroom, then don't complain if your kids are getting bad grades or other kids are disrupting the class. You keep cutting of teacher's ability to control a classroom. This plus restorative justice is not helping.

It's no wonder why some kids just do whatever the heck they want in schools. They know nothing will happen to them.

Anonymous wrote:Kinda s/o to the fights and drugs threads.

Can the county ban cell phones in schools? I went to high school in the 90s and electronics were banned like beepers and the old brick cell phones. If somebody had a beeper, it would be confiscated and returned at the end of the day.

MCPS doesn't have the authority to confiscate personal property, nor should they have to especially to placate some crazies.

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Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

Because they're inflexible and if they can't instantly and immediately reach out to and hear from their kids at all times during the 6 hours they're in school, it's catastrophic.

It really is none of your business. I prefer my kids to have phones. Especially since it allows them film unacceptable behavior.

what do they do with the videos of unacceptable behavior?

Post them on social media or pass them around in group chats.

and that needs to stop and part of the reason why phones should be confiscated.

It's humiliating enough when a child is beat up on, but to relive it over and over through social media.. that can lead to severe mental health issues, as we saw with the 14 yr old girl in NJ.

Suppressing students first amendment rights is unamerican!

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Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

Because they're inflexible and if they can't instantly and immediately reach out to and hear from their kids at all times during the 6 hours they're in school, it's catastrophic.

It really is none of your business. I prefer my kids to have phones. Especially since it allows them film unacceptable behavior.

what do they do with the videos of unacceptable behavior?

Post them on social media or pass them around in group chats.

and that needs to stop and part of the reason why phones should be confiscated.

It's humiliating enough when a child is beat up on, but to relive it over and over through social media.. that can lead to severe mental health issues, as we saw with the 14 yr old girl in NJ.

Anonymous wrote:Until the GOP stops the craziness with guns they need their phones. It is now a fact of life. Thanks MAGA/Conservative crap.

Gun owner.

I'm with you on the MAGA craziness re guns. but how, precisely, will a phone keep your kid safe?

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Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

Because they're inflexible and if they can't instantly and immediately reach out to and hear from their kids at all times during the 6 hours they're in school, it's catastrophic.

It really is none of your business. I prefer my kids to have phones. Especially since it allows them film unacceptable behavior.

what do they do with the videos of unacceptable behavior?

Post them on social media or pass them around in group chats.

I need to know what snack to have ready for my kids. They contact me early afternoon so I can prepare.

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Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

Because they're inflexible and if they can't instantly and immediately reach out to and hear from their kids at all times during the 6 hours they're in school, it's catastrophic.

It really is none of your business. I prefer my kids to have phones. Especially since it allows them film unacceptable behavior.

what do they do with the videos of unacceptable behavior?

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Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

Because they're inflexible and if they can't instantly and immediately reach out to and hear from their kids at all times during the 6 hours they're in school, it's catastrophic.

It really is none of your business. I prefer my kids to have phones. Especially since it allows them film unacceptable behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

Because they're inflexible and if they can't instantly and immediately reach out to and hear from their kids at all times during the 6 hours they're in school, it's catastrophic.

Anonymous wrote:No way would I send my kid to school without a phone for many reasons as they need it to communicate with us. It’s not like schools have pay phones still.

why can't your kid send you a quick email on the rare occasion they NEED to communicate with you? I'm baffled.

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Anonymous wrote:There is something you can do as a parent. Take your kid’s phone if the screen time is excessive during the school day. I don’t monitor screen time but I do have life 360, which provides battery usage. If the battery usage is at 20% at 3 pm when it was fully charged at 7 am, something is up. My kid absolutely hates when I take the phone the next day, but I don’t have a choice. It sucks. Still, they have their chromebooks and can always reach you that way.

The problem is many of the posters here expect the county to raise their kids and take zero responsibility. Then come here and complain about problems of their own making.

DCUM's gonna DCUM.

Anonymous wrote:There is something you can do as a parent. Take your kid’s phone if the screen time is excessive during the school day. I don’t monitor screen time but I do have life 360, which provides battery usage. If the battery usage is at 20% at 3 pm when it was fully charged at 7 am, something is up. My kid absolutely hates when I take the phone the next day, but I don’t have a choice. It sucks. Still, they have their chromebooks and can always reach you that way.

The problem is many of the posters here expect the county to raise their kids and take zero responsibility. Then come here and complain about problems of their own making.

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Anonymous wrote:There is something you can do as a parent. Take your kid’s phone if the screen time is excessive during the school day. I don’t monitor screen time but I do have life 360, which provides battery usage. If the battery usage is at 20% at 3 pm when it was fully charged at 7 am, something is up. My kid absolutely hates when I take the phone the next day, but I don’t have a choice. It sucks. Still, they have their chromebooks and can always reach you that way.

That would be parenting and most parents don’t do that.

How can something that most parents don't do be "parenting"?

You kind of answered your own question.