The only concern I have is that, unfortunately, we live in a country with a lot of school shootings and phones have given kids a link to the outside when that is happening.
LAUSD cited possible tactics like locked pouches, cellphone lockers or technological means and promised the policies would be “informed by best practices and by input from experts in the field, labor partners, staff, students, and parents.”
Pouches? Maybe if there’s some quick release that teachers are given. Lockers? That does nothing about the school shooter issue. They might as well be at home. The “technological means” sounds a bit Orwellian.
I lol’d at the “technological means” what are they gonna do, put up jammers? The FCC would be on their ass in no time. Metal detectors? Don’t they already have that? Bluetooth detection? The kids will just turn off Bluetooth widespread.
I’m worried it will be something like “you must install this app while on campus and you must sign this waiver to allow us to monitor your phone via the app and we will confiscate your phone if you’re caught without the app.”
parents wont go for that. as you pointed out, parents want to be able to access their kids. they are the biggest roadblocks to ‘no phones in schools’. im one of them.
The use of a phone jammer, GPS blocker, or other signal jamming device designed to intentionally block, jam, or interfere with authorized radio communications is a violation of federal law. There are no exemptions for use within a business, classroom, residence, or vehicle. Local law enforcement agencies do not have independent authority to use jamming equipment; in certain limited exceptions use by Federal law enforcement agencies is authorized in accordance with applicable statutes.
Not even buckets, when I was in school many years ago, I have very distinct memories of texting through my hoodie on a flip phone T9 to hide it from the teachers because we were under a constant “if I see it I’m taking it” threat lmao
is this going to be another one of those ‘schools think they can parent outside of school hours’ overreach?
Literally, the first sentence. So, no. Not even the first school to ban cell phone use during the school day.
Sounds like it and the other is something that I thought schools have been doing since cell phones have been a thing…
Edit: >from using cellphones and social media platforms during the school day.
Oh nope, just in school which is fine ig
The only concern I have is that, unfortunately, we live in a country with a lot of school shootings and phones have given kids a link to the outside when that is happening.
Thank God for all the good people with guns to provide safety, am I right?
Good people dont usually take their guns into a school since they’re gun free zones, I dont know who you expect to respond.
And heroic cops, like the ones at Uvalde.
It sounds like it’s a ban on using the phone during school, not on simply having a phone with you.
Which honestly sounds like a rule every school has pretty much had for like 20+ years.
Pouches? Maybe if there’s some quick release that teachers are given. Lockers? That does nothing about the school shooter issue. They might as well be at home. The “technological means” sounds a bit Orwellian.
I lol’d at the “technological means” what are they gonna do, put up jammers? The FCC would be on their ass in no time. Metal detectors? Don’t they already have that? Bluetooth detection? The kids will just turn off Bluetooth widespread.
I’m worried it will be something like “you must install this app while on campus and you must sign this waiver to allow us to monitor your phone via the app and we will confiscate your phone if you’re caught without the app.”
parents wont go for that. as you pointed out, parents want to be able to access their kids. they are the biggest roadblocks to ‘no phones in schools’. im one of them.
hahah these are already in place and in use. they already have cell blockers in many places. this is not new and the fcc knows all about it.
the ‘new’ hotness is a pico cell that allows for voice/sms but no data
Yea, no. The FCC is quite explicit on this, read for yourself:
cool, every school in my district has zero cell signal the moment you walk in the building. it sure as hell aint the architecture
im going to investigate… they are using something
I feel like school shooters are rare enough that a policy about cell phones wouldn’t need to factor them in.
There have already been 107 incidents of gunfire on school grounds since the beginning of the year, including one in Los Angeles.
29 dead, 61 injured.
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/gunfire-on-school-grounds/
Right, I have mine take them to school just to help quell that ever present voice in the back of my mind
but youre not wrong. both of these issues have already been resolved by many schools by just having kids bucket their phones on the way in…
Not even buckets, when I was in school many years ago, I have very distinct memories of texting through my hoodie on a flip phone T9 to hide it from the teachers because we were under a constant “if I see it I’m taking it” threat lmao