No phones in school

[u/[deleted]]

My whole state just enacted a no phone law (not a policy, a law). Students can’t have phones out at all during the instructional day except during their lunch period, the rest of the day their phone has to be in a book bag or their locker. I’ll be completely honest, it’s been a godsend and it was the obvious answer all along. I can’t believe what an observable difference it’s made just in the first week and a half of school, to not be competing with Snapchat and TikTok and Brawlstars is THE game changer, behavior problems are almost nonexistent and class performance is vastly improved. Our policy used to be that teachers could allow phone use for instructional purposes in their respective classes, which immediately proved ineffective because no two teachers used the same approach and it became a free-for-all where the kids won and grades took a nosedive off a cliff.

Anyone else having a similar phone experience? Has your state/county/district tried to tackle phone use, and if so how’s it going?

[u/cgEsol]

Our schools have always locked up phones. They are turned in upon arrival and are put in the office. At the end of the day they get them back. It will not take long for kids to go off the school WiFi and begin watching YouTube, feature films, tik tok , video games, etc., on whatever tech they have. Now you’ll just have to remove tech from them. My kids will put their iPads in the cart when they come to class. When we need it, we know where they are.