Schools should just be allowed to have cell jammers.
A blanket ban on cell phones in schools will hamper teachers and staff too. Plus, the usual reason why jamming is illegal in most countries: dialling emergency numbers!
Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
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Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#12Schools should just be allowed to have cell jammers.
If only. Our school mandates big tech slavery. Use microsoft and google and more or do not graduate.
Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#13I'm a little surprised this is newsworthy... this is already the policy at my kid's middle school (NC public schools.) Is it that uncommon? I get that it's probably harder to enforce into the upper grades...
Most schools allow phones outside of class time. This policy bans phones on school grounds altogether
Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#14Schools should just be allowed to have cell jammers.
A blanket ban on cell phones in schools will hamper teachers and staff too. Plus, the usual reason why jamming is illegal in most countries: dialling emergency numbers!
I wonder if they could wire the jamming system into the fire alarm. Pulling the alarm turns off the jamming.
Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#15I'm a little surprised this is newsworthy... this is already the policy at my kid's middle school (NC public schools.) Is it that uncommon? I get that it's probably harder to enforce into the upper grades...
Just have a jammer on school premises and use mac auth for the wifi in addition to the the metal detectors at the entrance.
Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#16This has to be done by the school, there is not a critical mass of parents able to stop existing momentum.
Yep, we had a pact with the parents of my kids and several of them caved early and now we look like the bad guys. That's ok, sometimes we have to be the bad guys. Hopefully, like me and my parents, the child appreciates later in life why the parent did things a certain way. Obviously, we have explained to them why they can't have phones yet, but they don't agree of course. For when my kids do get phones, I want a way…
Have you considered a pihole with a blocklist config which covers social media domains?
Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#17I'm a little surprised this is newsworthy... this is already the policy at my kid's middle school (NC public schools.) Is it that uncommon? I get that it's probably harder to enforce into the upper grades...
Just have a jammer on school premises and use mac auth for the wifi in addition to the the metal detectors at the entrance.
teachers/faculty?
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Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#19As a former student of a Minnesota district right outside Minneapolis, it's interesting to me that they were allowed at all.
When I was in school in the late 90's / early aughts we weren't even supposed to have our Discman or early MP3 players on school property. We all had them of course, but if they were seen they could be confiscated - I think it was largely an empty threat but I never saw anyone push it. Some teachers would happily allow you to use them in class.
They were also VERY suspicious any time you had your graphing calculator out outside math class, and some of the ruder study hall attendants would clear your calculators memory of games.
Gameboy or anything of the like certainly would not have flown. I remember my friend actually getting special permission to bring his laptop in.
Re: Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
#20I'm a little surprised this is newsworthy... this is already the policy at my kid's middle school (NC public schools.) Is it that uncommon? I get that it's probably harder to enforce into the upper grades...
Just have a jammer on school premises and use mac auth for the wifi in addition to the the metal detectors at the entrance.
The jammer will get you a visit from the friendly people at the FCC.
Much easier to just make your school have some thick walls that prevent cell signals :)