Anonymous
09/05/2025 08:27
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
I have kids at two different high schools. At one school, they’re trying to find a workaround to allow the journalism class to continue posting teacher approved TikToks of their reporting because they’re taking the ban so seriously. At the other high school, my kid kept texting me during instructional time. I asked how they were able to do that and they said that in that class, they’re allowed to use their phones after they’ve completed their work. My kid could have been lying, but I was receiving an awful lot of texts, so it seems hard to believe my kid was able to do it surreptitiously. This kid isn’t slick like that.
If that is true, then that teacher is a real jerk. It takes one like him/her to ruin it for all of the teachers who are trying to maintain a phone free environment, either because they believe in a phone free environment and that it’s better for the education, or because they’re complying with the new policy. Then the kids will want to use phones everywhere and it makes it so hard for everybody else.
You have to pick your battles.
Disagree. The policy is in place. There is no battle to pick.
Do you think every policy is strictly enforced?
No. And that the crux of the issue.
Indeed. Unrealistic expectations from parents are at the heart of many of our problems.
Anonymous
09/05/2025 08:10
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
I have kids at two different high schools. At one school, they’re trying to find a workaround to allow the journalism class to continue posting teacher approved TikToks of their reporting because they’re taking the ban so seriously. At the other high school, my kid kept texting me during instructional time. I asked how they were able to do that and they said that in that class, they’re allowed to use their phones after they’ve completed their work. My kid could have been lying, but I was receiving an awful lot of texts, so it seems hard to believe my kid was able to do it surreptitiously. This kid isn’t slick like that.
If that is true, then that teacher is a real jerk. It takes one like him/her to ruin it for all of the teachers who are trying to maintain a phone free environment, either because they believe in a phone free environment and that it’s better for the education, or because they’re complying with the new policy. Then the kids will want to use phones everywhere and it makes it so hard for everybody else.
You have to pick your battles.
Disagree. The policy is in place. There is no battle to pick.
Do you think every policy is strictly enforced?
No. And that the crux of the issue.
Anonymous
09/05/2025 08:08
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
I have kids at two different high schools. At one school, they’re trying to find a workaround to allow the journalism class to continue posting teacher approved TikToks of their reporting because they’re taking the ban so seriously. At the other high school, my kid kept texting me during instructional time. I asked how they were able to do that and they said that in that class, they’re allowed to use their phones after they’ve completed their work. My kid could have been lying, but I was receiving an awful lot of texts, so it seems hard to believe my kid was able to do it surreptitiously. This kid isn’t slick like that.
If that is true, then that teacher is a real jerk. It takes one like him/her to ruin it for all of the teachers who are trying to maintain a phone free environment, either because they believe in a phone free environment and that it’s better for the education, or because they’re complying with the new policy. Then the kids will want to use phones everywhere and it makes it so hard for everybody else.
You have to pick your battles.
Disagree. The policy is in place. There is no battle to pick.
+1
The teacher is being lazy. They should either have extension material available or have the students work in something for another class rather than let them take out phones. In my class the priority order is my classwork, other classwork, something else productive related to a club or hobby, or reading a book. It’s really not that hard to keep kids off phones if you set the expectation. And shockingly, if several are done early they might even just chat with their peers (which has really vanished since the pandemic).
If that many are done early most days it should signify to the teacher that they can cover more content, go deeper, or assign more difficult assignments.
Anonymous
09/05/2025 00:51
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
There isn't a practical way to enforce it, so what do you expect? Do you want to bring in the TSA nude body scanners to high schools?
Locked pouches. They work.
Except when students don't put them in the pouches to begin with. Which they wouldn't.
They wouldn't because mcps doesnt understand its role as authoritarian. There is no punishment or consequences. If the students got it in their heads to rebel as a group, there would be nothing mcps could do. Any authority is a mirage.
Maybe Trump can ask his good friend, Putin, to come over and train our staff. Authoritarian regimes always have great outcomes.
Anonymous
09/05/2025 00:27
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Weird that's where your mind went
Imagine being such a polyanna that you think an inappropriate intimate video meant anything other than screwing
Anonymous
09/05/2025 00:24
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
There isn't a practical way to enforce it, so what do you expect? Do you want to bring in the TSA nude body scanners to high schools?
Locked pouches. They work.
Except when students don't put them in the pouches to begin with. Which they wouldn't.
They wouldn't because mcps doesnt understand its role as authoritarian. There is no punishment or consequences. If the students got it in their heads to rebel as a group, there would be nothing mcps could do. Any authority is a mirage.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 21:58
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
There isn't a practical way to enforce it, so what do you expect? Do you want to bring in the TSA nude body scanners to high schools?
Some states are using yonder pouches. Cell phones are locked away in pouches all day. MCPS parents can’t handle a full day ban on phones so here we are
And how do you stop students from sneaking in phones without locking them in pouches? Are you going to have staff conduct pat downs on teenage girls as they enter the school?
In other districts, if a kid is caught with a phone out, it is confiscated by administrators and parents need to come get it. Once you inconvenience parents, the kids behavior improves real fast. Real consequences work.
And I'm sure parents love being told that their kids filmed sex acts on school grounds.
Yet it still happens.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 21:39
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
There isn't a practical way to enforce it, so what do you expect? Do you want to bring in the TSA nude body scanners to high schools?
Some states are using yonder pouches. Cell phones are locked away in pouches all day. MCPS parents can’t handle a full day ban on phones so here we are
And how do you stop students from sneaking in phones without locking them in pouches? Are you going to have staff conduct pat downs on teenage girls as they enter the school?
In other districts, if a kid is caught with a phone out, it is confiscated by administrators and parents need to come get it. Once you inconvenience parents, the kids behavior improves real fast. Real consequences work.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 19:14
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:It really needs to be a state law. “School policies” leave way too much room for lack of enforcement.
Maybe you could bring in the National Guard to police it, too!
Anonymous
09/04/2025 18:55
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
It really needs to be a state law. “School policies” leave way too much room for lack of enforcement.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 17:46
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
There isn't a practical way to enforce it, so what do you expect? Do you want to bring in the TSA nude body scanners to high schools?
Some states are using yonder pouches. Cell phones are locked away in pouches all day. MCPS parents can’t handle a full day ban on phones so here we are
And how do you stop students from sneaking in phones without locking them in pouches? Are you going to have staff conduct pat downs on teenage girls as they enter the school?
Anonymous
09/04/2025 17:32
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
There isn't a practical way to enforce it, so what do you expect? Do you want to bring in the TSA nude body scanners to high schools?
Locked pouches. They work.
Except when students don't put them in the pouches to begin with. Which they wouldn't.
Anonymous
09/04/2025 17:28
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
I have kids at two different high schools. At one school, they’re trying to find a workaround to allow the journalism class to continue posting teacher approved TikToks of their reporting because they’re taking the ban so seriously. At the other high school, my kid kept texting me during instructional time. I asked how they were able to do that and they said that in that class, they’re allowed to use their phones after they’ve completed their work. My kid could have been lying, but I was receiving an awful lot of texts, so it seems hard to believe my kid was able to do it surreptitiously. This kid isn’t slick like that.
If that is true, then that teacher is a real jerk. It takes one like him/her to ruin it for all of the teachers who are trying to maintain a phone free environment, either because they believe in a phone free environment and that it’s better for the education, or because they’re complying with the new policy. Then the kids will want to use phones everywhere and it makes it so hard for everybody else.
You have to pick your battles.
Disagree. The policy is in place. There is no battle to pick.
Do you think every policy is strictly enforced?
Anonymous
09/04/2025 16:34
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
I have kids at two different high schools. At one school, they’re trying to find a workaround to allow the journalism class to continue posting teacher approved TikToks of their reporting because they’re taking the ban so seriously. At the other high school, my kid kept texting me during instructional time. I asked how they were able to do that and they said that in that class, they’re allowed to use their phones after they’ve completed their work. My kid could have been lying, but I was receiving an awful lot of texts, so it seems hard to believe my kid was able to do it surreptitiously. This kid isn’t slick like that.
If that is true, then that teacher is a real jerk. It takes one like him/her to ruin it for all of the teachers who are trying to maintain a phone free environment, either because they believe in a phone free environment and that it’s better for the education, or because they’re complying with the new policy. Then the kids will want to use phones everywhere and it makes it so hard for everybody else.
You have to pick your battles.
Disagree. The policy is in place. There is no battle to pick.
+1
The teacher is being lazy. They should either have extension material available or have the students work in something for another class rather than let them take out phones. In my class the priority order is my classwork, other classwork, something else productive related to a club or hobby, or reading a book. It’s really not that hard to keep kids off phones if you set the expectation. And shockingly, if several are done early they might even just chat with their peers (which has really vanished since the pandemic).
Anonymous
09/04/2025 16:25
Subject: What happened at NWHS?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What was this about? Did someone video record teens having s3x or something?
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/maryland-hs-responds-video-inappropriate-intimate-behavior-campus
Sounds like the cell phone ban is doing great. Such a joke this entire school system
There isn't a practical way to enforce it, so what do you expect? Do you want to bring in the TSA nude body scanners to high schools?
Some states are using yonder pouches. Cell phones are locked away in pouches all day. MCPS parents can’t handle a full day ban on phones so here we are