Anonymous wrote:At the school where I work, if a phone is out during the day (any time between the start of 1st and the end of 7th), it gets taken from the student and turned in at the office. The kid gets it back at the end of the day. The second time it happens, a parent has to come for it. (Rarely, they can wait a week and get it back rather than involving parents.)

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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.

there is no need for your kid to communicate with you during class. It's a distraction. Did your parents need to communicate with you when you were in school and didn't have a phone?

Goodness, how did we all manage to go to school without being able to reach our parents during class?

We’d use the pay phone. They always made sure we had money to call them and it was expected we call if something changed. If phones were invented we would have all had them too. Some kids had pagers.

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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.

there is no need for your kid to communicate with you during class. It's a distraction. Did your parents need to communicate with you when you were in school and didn't have a phone?

Goodness, how did we all manage to go to school without being able to reach our parents during class?

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The office has a phone

No need to communicate

Anonymous wrote:So many of these kids are addicted to their phones. Adults too. I was iat BCC the other day and kids walk and look at their phones so much. I am surprised they don't trip but maybe we are adapting as a species. Sad.

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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.

there is no need for your kid to communicate with you during class. It's a distraction. Did your parents need to communicate with you when you were in school and didn't have a phone?

Goodness, how did we all manage to go to school without being able to reach our parents during class?

Anonymous wrote:So many of these kids are addicted to their phones. Adults too. I was iat BCC the other day and kids walk and look at their phones so much. I am surprised they don't trip but maybe we are adapting as a species. Sad.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't use your phone when you're going through customs, either. Schools get to impose rules, too. Kids enjoy the break from phones as well, by the way.

Personally, I haven't been through customs in years so it's a non-issue. As a parent, it's my responsibility to control and monitor the phone. See how that works. Its easy to lock it down or shut it off.

How are you monitoring and controlling your kids' phone usage when they are in class?

There are a lot of things kids cannot bring to school, like if they little Jimmy wanted to bring his ps4, the school would confiscate it and return it at the end of the day.

I stated earlier, they can use phone pouches, so your little snowflake won't have their phones taken away; they just won't be able to use it unless the teacher unlocks the pouch.

Easy to see the usage.

If my kid has an allergic reaction, I want them to call me.

If there is an incident at school or somewhere else, I want them to call me as I will go get them.

If I have an issue and cannot get them, I want to be able to contact time.

If they need to let me know something like school supplies or a change, they need to contact me.

As a parent its my job to deal with it, not the teachers.

My snowflakes can just yell out when they need me right now so it's not an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't use your phone when you're going through customs, either. Schools get to impose rules, too. Kids enjoy the break from phones as well, by the way.

Personally, I haven't been through customs in years so it's a non-issue. As a parent, it's my responsibility to control and monitor the phone. See how that works. Its easy to lock it down or shut it off.

How are you monitoring and controlling your kids' phone usage when they are in class?

There are a lot of things kids cannot bring to school, like if they little Jimmy wanted to bring his ps4, the school would confiscate it and return it at the end of the day.

I stated earlier, they can use phone pouches, so your little snowflake won't have their phones taken away; they just won't be able to use it unless the teacher unlocks the pouch.

Easy to see the usage.

If my kid has an allergic reaction, I want them to call me.

If there is an incident at school or somewhere else, I want them to call me as I will go get them.

If I have an issue and cannot get them, I want to be able to contact time.

If they need to let me know something like school supplies or a change, they need to contact me.

As a parent its my job to deal with it, not the teachers.

My snowflakes can just yell out when they need me right now so it's not an issue.

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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.

If someone took my phone, I'd report the the theft to the police. They don't have the right to do this. We don't live in a police state.

You live in a society. Society has schools. You can't bring your gun into a courtroom either. Boo hoo for you.

This is the entirety of the problem. My "Jimmy" has every right to his phone and nobody can take it from him. Even if it means a substantial change for the better to the learning environment for the entire student population. If you want "Jimmy" to go to school, he has to comply with the rules.

Because American parents are entitled and self-centered to the detriment of the greater good and the community.

Unfortunately, you can't change that. The best you can hope for is that those people end up as the minority and the majority who vote and engage in the policies and management of public schools think and behave otherwise. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case.

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Anonymous wrote:You can't use your phone when you're going through customs, either. Schools get to impose rules, too. Kids enjoy the break from phones as well, by the way.

Personally, I haven't been through customs in years so it's a non-issue. As a parent, it's my responsibility to control and monitor the phone. See how that works. Its easy to lock it down or shut it off.

How are you monitoring and controlling your kids' phone usage when they are in class?

There are a lot of things kids cannot bring to school, like if they little Jimmy wanted to bring his ps4, the school would confiscate it and return it at the end of the day.

I stated earlier, they can use phone pouches, so your little snowflake won't have their phones taken away; they just won't be able to use it unless the teacher unlocks the pouch.

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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.

Our elementary has a free phone in the lobby.

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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.

If someone took my phone, I'd report the the theft to the police. They don't have the right to do this. We don't live in a police state.

You live in a society. Society has schools. You can't bring your gun into a courtroom either. Boo hoo for you.

This is the entirety of the problem. My "Jimmy" has every right to his phone and nobody can take it from him. Even if it means a substantial change for the better to the learning environment for the entire student population. If you want "Jimmy" to go to school, he has to comply with the rules.

Because American parents are entitled and self-centered to the detriment of the greater good and the community.

Unfortunately, you can't change that. The best you can hope for is that those people end up as the minority and the majority who vote and engage in the policies and management of public schools think and behave otherwise. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case.

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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.