Phones in schools....

[Blansky]

Without getting political, what's your feeling of phones being banned in schools.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/arti...chul-plan.html

Personally I think it's a good thing to get kids personally interacting again and get them off the addiction that is phones/social media/notifications.

I would guess it could be the only "safe space" in their young lives where they would be free of them and their influence. And since they were born, their lives have been controlled/manipulated by phones/internet etc

It's often difficult to know you have an addiction until you find yourself with no access to what you are addicted to.

I would guess that most people here (if not all) have lived a part of their lives without cell phones, and know, or can reason, when they have become too overexposed to them. For kids, it's all they've ever known.

What do you think?

[joli160]

There is no reason why kids should have a phone in the classroom. It only distracts and for a teacher it is probably very annoying.
Ban those things during class

[Krash]

Originally Posted by joli160

There is no reason why kids should have a phone in the classroom. It only distracts and for a teacher it is probably very annoying.
Ban those things during class

Yeah, phones should be banned from class but not from school. Students should be required to keep them locked up in their lockers. Once school is over, kids should have access to their phones in case of an emergency.

[Blansky]

These are the Yondr bags they are talking about in the article...

The kids maintain possession of their phones but are locked in a bag....

https://www.overyondr.com/phone-locking-pouch

[996marty]

Phones should definitely be banned in schools after all they are there to learn. A lot of our friends kids these days don’t like to talk to people they prefer texting everyone which is a concern moving forward

[Maleg]

Phones should be time locked in secure storage at entry to the building, not to be returned until school is out for the day. Kids need the face to face interactions to learn how to socialize. Phones are nothing but a distraction.

Take them from the teachers while you're at it. They don't need to be checking in all day while they are supposed to be focused on the kids.

[Bazil]

No need in class - nonsensical for them to use them or even have them on them, yes when they leave for safety reasons sure, that’s why my kids had one ..

[AzPaul]

If a kid doesn't have access to his phone, how is he supposed to watch porn, get a bet down, or cyberbully?

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by AzPaul

If a kid doesn't have access to his phone, how is he supposed to watch porn, get a bet down, or cyberbully?

LOL. The old fashioned way, I guess. The way we did it.

[Krash]

Originally Posted by Blansky

LOL. The old fashioned way, I guess. The way we did it.

Yeah, if there is a will, there’s a way.


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[swils8610]

Originally Posted by joli160

There is no reason why kids should have a phone in the classroom. It only distracts and for a teacher it is probably very annoying.
Ban those things during class

Absolutely 100% agree


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[austinp]

My kids school didn’t allow them in class. Didn’t seem to be a big deal at all.


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[Boopie]

No need to have phones while school is in session.

[pickettt]

I'm going to tiptoe through this one; For starters, I agree with the overall sentiment of the posts so far. In fact, my son doesn't even have a phone. However, there is ALWAYS a reason you should have direct access to your child...and I'm going to leave it at that.

[Wcdhtwn]

My kids are in week 2 of no phones allowed. Both are high schoolers. So far the earth is still turning, despite their routine predictions of the opposite occurring.

[texasmade]

Originally Posted by pickettt

I'm going to tiptoe through this one; For starters, I agree with the overall sentiment of the posts so far. In fact, my son doesn't even have a phone. However, there is ALWAYS a reason you should have direct access to your child...and I'm going to leave it at that.

I don't have any kids on my own but I'm with you on that one. No phones during class but I would want my kid (if I had one) to be able to reach me in case of emergency.

Not sure if there's a way to lockdown phones between school hours where the only numbers that can be texted or called is the parents/guardians.

[Rockrolex]

I'm against phones in school for the reasons stated above. In addition, if parents need to contact their kid th can call the school office. They will get word to the kid. That's how they did it in the days before cell phones.

[Krash]

Originally Posted by Rockrolex

I'm against phones in school for the reasons stated above. In addition, if parents need to contact their kid th can call the school office. They will get word to the kid. That's how they did it in the days before cell phones.

I remember when my Dad was as so excited that the 76ers signed Dr J (Julius Erving), that he called the school and left a message for me.

I was in class, and when it was over, I was asked to report to the office. I’m thinking to myself, “WTH is going on here?”

That’s when the administration ladies gave me the message. “Your father called. He wants you to know the 76ers signed Dr J.”

lol

But seriously, I still think it’s important for kids to have phones with them once classes are no longer in session. They need them for safety reasons and in case of an emergency.


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[TNT009]

Only reason I see is in the event of a school shooting... Other than that, keep em locked up!

[pickettt]

Originally Posted by Rockrolex

I'm against phones in school for the reasons stated above. In addition, if parents need to contact their kid th can call the school office. They will get word to the kid. That's how they did it in the days before cell phones.

Originally Posted by texasmade

I don't have any kids on my own but I'm with you on that one. No phones during class but I would want my kid (if I had one) to be able to reach me in case of emergency.

It's a subtle difference, but an important one.

[enjoythemusic]

Our high school had a couple pay phones by the office. Of course any real emergency is handled by the office / nurse station.

[JasoninDenver]

I am damn close to banning them in the home as well.

Seriously, I have tow teenage girls and can see firsthand the damage being done. I am actually reading Jonathan Haidt's book "The Anxious Generation" and it is very convincing that the addiction to phones and social media is causing lasting damage to our kids.

Every summer, our girls spend five weeks at a summer camp and have no use of phones or access to social media. We cannot even talk to them unless it is an emergency. They even realize how much more they do when the phones are not around.

[brandrea]

I think it’s easy to say phones should be banned in the classroom. Of course they’re distracting etc., but it’s an entirely different world from when we went to school.

I agree with some of the above comments … it drives my nuts when our kids have their heads buried in their phones when I think they should be engaged in conversation or whatever else is going on around them.

That said, I also think the genie is out of the bottle, and perhaps it would be better if educators taught kids how to use their phones with social awareness in mind and/or for educational purposes rather than pretending they don’t exist. Just my

[MrGoat]

My better half is a teacher. She has a basket the kids throw their phone in at the beginning of class and they get it back at the end of class. She has a way with them and I don’t think a single kid has protested more than a few minutes (if so, I haven’t heard about it).

I don’t think we can compare our days to the life these kids are living these days. I think it would be foolish of us to. These kids don’t have anonymity and the ability to make mistakes without it going anywhere like we did. Now everything is recorded and posted. Only to potentially come back to bite these kids in the ass later in life.

We are in the new wave of technology. For us it was the boom box or the 8 track or for a select few here, the phonograph. :joking:

I can’t say with any factual evidence the world is any sicker or more dangerous than it was in my day or the days prior. I can say, it sure feels like it probably is when I see so many absolutely against helping their fellow man. Then add the proverbial soap box that is “social media” and you’ve got one idiot that was selling snake oil on a literal soapbox at the back of a cart gaining a couple people per town to that same idiot today spewing nonsense, hate, disinformation, fallacies, evil and reaching the world without taking a step out of his/her moms basement. So for that reason (safety), I believe we need to allow these kids to bring their phones to school but have boundaries on when and where they can use them.

I could go on and on about how terrible I think technology is becoming and how terrible it will be for our future generations. I hate it and I say that as a man that has two phones on him all day everyday and usually one or both in hand.

God help us, technology will be the death of us.


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[East Bay Rider]

My son's HS had a no phones policy back before he graduated in 2014.
I found this out when he texted me from school telling me that he didn't feel well and asking if I'd pick him up.
Sure Pal, be right there.
So I get to the school and he's waiting for me at the nurses office. I don't recall the school having called me yet. The nurse asked me how I knew he wasn't well and needed to be dismissed. Not thinking anything of it I simply told them that he'd texted me and told me he was sick. I came right over. He then got scolded for using the phone during school hours.
Oops.
I guess he figured that it was easier to go right to the source (me) rather than involve the middleman (nurse).
FWIW he wasn't a kid that screwed around breaking rules. He probably had some sport practice afterwards that he was also going to have to miss so I knew he needed to come home.
And that was my introduction to the school cell phone policy.

[pickettt]

Originally Posted by JasoninDenver

I am damn close to banning them in the home as well.

Like I said, thus far, we haven’t allowed our son to have a phone at all.

[JasoninDenver]

Originally Posted by pickettt

Like I said, thus far, we haven’t allowed our son to have a phone at all.

Bood for hou mate! Buy him another bike instead.

[Rock]

There IS no rational argument for all-hours access to Mobile phones by students in school.
If there is an 'emergency' then the school needs to know and that communication should go through the school office. Student phones should be locked in the student's locker during class hours. The world hasn't changed so much that everybody can't function without their phone in their hand. It's a created dependency - that needs to be broken.

[pickettt]

Originally Posted by Rock

There IS no rational argument for all-hours access to Mobile phones by students in school.

Well it’s settled then.

[White Collar Boy]

At our school, students can bring a phone but it has to stay in their locker. They’re allowed to briefly use their phone at a break if it’s to arrange a time to be picked up, but they can’t take their phone away from their locker. They’re not allowed to use VPNs on their devices either, as it gets around the school’s secure intranet, but it does happen sneakily, and their equipment gets confiscated.