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Presumably the teachers still need their phones.
I'd jam the cell signal and force them to go through the school wifi. Then they could control permissions.
It’s news to me that phones were ever allowed. They were to be locked in a locker until after school hours for my entire schooling (punishable by detention and seizure of phone).
Why don't they just jam them?
Loving this trend of banning phones. I overheard a conversation last week from a group of teachers talking about the phone ban: They had students put their phone in signal blocking bags. But some phones kept searching for signal until they overheated… literally warping the phone screen. Now they advise students to put it in airplane mode before sticking it in the bag…
Why don't they just jam them?
The government issued a new set of cost-cutting changes for this academic year. The most fundamental change is that they merge classes together (at least 25 students) to save money. The teachers are unable to work with such big classes.
Cheap solution that won't work, but they need to do something: take children's phones away.
Why don't they just jam them?
Why don't they just jam them?
We gave our son in middle school a smartwatch as a compromise, figured a full smartphone would be too distracting.
It's a private school. All the parents agree with this policy. It's fantastic for the kids, and for teaching.