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Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone abdicating their parental responsibility to teachers? Teach your kids right and wrong, teach and model appropriate cell phone use, provide consequences for cheating.

+10000000

I’ve done all of that. One kid would never cheat and the other one does.

What consequences did you give your cheating kid?

We have grounded the kid, talked to the kid, etc. We have reason to believe that there is ongoing cheating but don’t have hard evidence.

Take the electronics.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone has ideas of what parents can do I am interested.

It would be great if parents could email the BOE and the superintendent and ask them to address this issue. Private schools have clear rules and consequences for cell phone use. So do many districts. Phones should be kept away in lockers or backpacks. Maybe taken out at lunch. It will improve high school education tremendously

The discussion was about what parents can do, not the school or BOE. If your kid is improperly using their phone, they lose their phone. Its called parenting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone abdicating their parental responsibility to teachers? Teach your kids right and wrong, teach and model appropriate cell phone use, provide consequences for cheating.

+10000000

I’ve done all of that. One kid would never cheat and the other one does.

What consequences did you give your cheating kid?

We have grounded the kid, talked to the kid, etc. We have reason to believe that there is ongoing cheating but don’t have hard evidence.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a HS teacher and it is very difficult to control. Cell phones have made the problem so much worse. Kids are texting answers to each other while in class.
Many kids don’t want to bother putting in any effort because they know they can copy off friends. It is a depressing situation which is hard to manage

Why are kids allowed to have cell phones out during a test? Surely it is within your authority as a teacher to say they have to be put in bag during test.

We do our best, but even if we catch a student using a phone on a test, the best we can do is give them a reassessment because "they did not realize it was wrong" or "they are just kids" --- think about all the other things happening in MCPS that have no consequences. We are told we just need to have a better relationship with them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone has ideas of what parents can do I am interested.

It would be great if parents could email the BOE and the superintendent and ask them to address this issue. Private schools have clear rules and consequences for cell phone use. So do many districts. Phones should be kept away in lockers or backpacks. Maybe taken out at lunch. It will improve high school education tremendously

So do public school even if you don't like them. This isn't a serious issue. Phones are not the cause of rampant cheating. Any teacher can see a student using a phone during a test and fail them just like when kids copy of one another.

Anonymous wrote:If anyone has ideas of what parents can do I am interested.

It would be great if parents could email the BOE and the superintendent and ask them to address this issue. Private schools have clear rules and consequences for cell phone use. So do many districts. Phones should be kept away in lockers or backpacks. Maybe taken out at lunch. It will improve high school education tremendously