Growing number of schools requiring students to lock away cellphones while in class 

Right! Most bLK children can’t even read these days! They read at a 2nd grade level. Can’t even read or comprehend Clifford

This actually has been a thing, from the first day high schoolers had cell phones. It's just that the "thing" has grown more and more as cellphones do more, more "exciting" apps, etc.

​@@javiruiz8365Reading scores of Hispanic/ Latino students are just as low.

​@Blaze-qe7yg nowadays yup sadly I'm hispanic grew up before all this bs, it's crazy. Currently working towards a PhD and it feels lonely at times.

I've seen this in NYC especially in co op city in the BX.

Me too

So am I. Besides, I have three phones now.

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There are many jobs that you aren't allowed to have your phone at. Never mind having them in a pouch with you. This is getting them ready for real world stuff.

@@mktay2067those are jobs at least they are getting paid . They should be teach them discipline. Not being forced . It will not bring good results in their later life .

I think its long over due. These brats can't play on their phones all day

None of them need a smartphone during the day. Not 1 of them

0% chance

Teachers have a phone you know that right and even then there are emergency measures in place. Knowing a school like this with these procedures I’m assuming they have a security guard

They're not. They're supposed to focus on hidding and escaping.

Parents can buy simple flip phones and only activate them enough to call 911. But honestly, just as it's crazy that there's this much technology to combat, this much crowdedness, this much everything in public schools on top of worrying if your child is going to get shot... This is why I support home education.

What did kids do for eternity before phones? lol

New generation of entitlement and their parents encourage it

You just needed to incorporate dance and rap into your lessons. Just like in the movies! 😂

What do you do now?

@@lefthookouchmcarm4520 I know you're joking, but my boss actually used to tell me stuff like this. "Play music. Play reggaeton. Play stuff the kids like." 😑😑

@@mrrandom1265 retail

Generations made it without cellphones. No reason these kids actually even have one.

@@brucecampbell4528I needed one because I went to school in a different town and pay phones were being phased out. I was only allowed to call my parents, and where I worked.

or they are just bad kids?

​@@brucecampbell4528everybody survived except those who didn't

That girl said now that our phone b locked up. Do they not learn English in school for black schools?

💯 agree

Statistically what do you think are the chances your child is going to be involved in a school shooting? Honestly

@@TYBG85 In case of ANY emergency. I NEVER mentioned anything about a SS. Where did you get that?!

@@draculadd school administration (nurse, teacher, etc) can call you. That's how we've done it since Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone. If something bad enough happened to your kid they're going to be unable to call you anyway. And if you need to contact your child in an emergency they will gladly pull them out of class if you call them. That's how I and everyone else I know growing up handled it and it wasn't an issue.

@@TYBG85 not always the case, but I’m not going to sit here and debate about it either.

karen @LadieKatie

​@LadieKatieWhat kind of teachers have you been around? Yikes.

Ya pagers were a thing but..lol nobody needed the kids don't need cell phones it's just a way for parents to not have to raise their kids

You can survive without your phone it’s just that it’s easier to use your phones for like he just said in the video taking pictures of notes.

All the apps they use are addiction machines lol they use push notifications and everything to keep that person lookin at it. Because thats how they make money. Blame the apps and social media.

they can always lock the apps during school hours!

Because the parents don’t have any self-control!

​@@gracebrown9475yup

Yeah try spanking a kid or taking the phone away and you end up in jail for abuse @@gracebrown9475

They're*

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Discipline at an early age makes a huge difference in life

Not even that. I graduated 2018. People used phones to cheat SO much

@iphone8fan1 😕R U saying that you don't think ☎s are addictive or habit-forming, especially for young kids?

​@iphone8fan1no its addictive when kids are on them all night.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS!!! a bunch of people in the comments are saying "wE WeNt tO sChOoL iN tHe '90s We DiDnT nEeD PhOnEs" but back in the '90s "situations which shall not be named" were INCREDIBLY rare. People need to realize the kids aren't sending themselves to school with their cellphones, it's the parents making them. Even in my small town, my class of 70, some parents make them bring phones to to school, whether it's for the child's health (my friend with diabetes used his phone as a diabetes monitor) or just plain safety.

​@spencercorby4571 who are kids gonna call, The Avengers? 🤣

@@jeneceamiker652 maybe their parents to say their final goodbyes...

School shootings are more frequent than ever and if I didn't have my cell to talk to my parents or brother when we went into lockdown idk what I would've done.

@@BeefySpam Grew up? Lock down? LOL We had "DUCK AND COVER" drills. For ATOMIC BOMBS!

@@punapeterIt’s not a competition.

It wasn't a drill for us though. Doubt you were ever told you had a bomb otw to school. That morning we locked down because there was supposedly an actual shooter. They opened the announcement with "THIS IS NOT A DRILL" Really thought I was texting my parents for the last time. @@punapeter

Yeah but my job allow me to have our phones lol 😂

What "emergencies" do you speak of?

@@Solo-Roadshootings or fires or anything of that nature

@@haannguyen4402 How to phones protect kids from shootings and fires?

​@@haannguyen4402who are the kids gonna call, The Avengers? 😅

A fridge magnet will open the latch, and the pouch is just a thin neoprene and foam layer. Pretty easy to cut open with a standard pen or even house key.

There are still hundreds of phones in any given school. How do you think they called 911 before cell phones in schools? The .0001 percent chance there's going to be a shooting doesn't justify the hundred percent chance most kids are getting a way shittier education because they're distracted with their phones. The cost benefit analysis of having your phone in class doesn't support your view at all.

The benefit of having cell phones is way better than relying on a wired phone that may not work all of the time. Not every school has a phone that works when you really need it. Kids know when they shouldn't be on their phone. They just don't care. It's common sense. Why type a paragraph over a simple question? Smh 🙄

​@@babycakes5339 Hidding and escaping is far more important than calling your parents. You risk being exposed, baiting more potential victims or encourage the shooter at fleeing or being more agressive. Safety and escape first, call after.

I meant to include that BTW 🤦🏽‍♂️ you make a valid point.

You're talking about uvalde, the place where they did nothing for about an hour, even having the important information that you're so reluctantly defending. You're a dunce.

use a keyboard phone, cheaper, can text and call, honestly a good beginner phone for kids learning self control

@@monkeyundies2525 Great idea. With these pouches, though the phone itself is inaccessible altogether. I don't want kids distracted but my child is now nearly 40 and we STILL haven't figured out how to stop people from shooting up the school.

I have a free Texas Instruments Solar one that still works from the 80s.

Try pen and paper like the rest of the world. They might then even be able to add and subtract when they graduate.

Germany is more or less a safe country and doesn't have an epidemic of mass shootings... there have been over 400 in the US already in 2023.

Kids in the US are so undisciplined they can't keep them in bags... 😂

why do we not look into why children prefer cell phones to class work. long before Iphones children were bored out of their minds in school, they just passed notes or daydreamed...I suggest that if schools taught hands on survival skills, children would be very enthusiastically engaged....gardening, wood shop, nature outings, of course, academic subjects too...but cell phone use is more a SYMPTOM than a cause, the cause is ROTE LEARNING... kids were just as bored with the useless memorize and spit it out crap in the 80s as they are today. they just smoked cigarettes in the restroom rather than texting during class. if kids had their hands in soil and on jigsaws hammers and paint brushes, they would not be reaching aimlessly for cell phones. they could then grow up to be artisans and gardeners and homesteaders rather than just mindless pencil pushers and reckless consumers. Iphones actually serve to prepare children for this ugly toxic consumer paradigm.

The u.s. Kids would all sneak them out of their bags and play on them during class all day. I went to school in Germany and in the U.S. american kids are raised with no manners and no discipline by parents that are self entitled karens and Ken's. Americans all feel they have rights over everyone else around them; inwhich means noone has rights. Germans feel right are for everyone and are more respectable to one another. The u.s. is driven by greed and religious fanaticsm. The religious fanaticsm in the u.s. is fior white supremacy, money, power, greed and the torture and abuse of everyone else. The u.s. religious fanatics have turned the u.s. to extreme facism.

It's due to American kids' lack of self control.

Mmhm

Real simple, administrators talk to the parents who abuse the system. I'm guessing that is what they did when I went to school since there were no cell phones.

Looks like they will have to use a medical monitor not a cell phone to scam the system that they are exempt from the rules. Lol, lol. Maybe their parents can learn how to have a little respect for others too.

@@EB-sh2jri bet you mistake a funeral for a comedy show

@@hypersilly bury the cell phone with them so I can send them text messages.

Maybe excessive phone use contributed to sleepers

Well said

The schools call the parents right away for something like a cellphone violation

@@stevenroshni1228 I have students who call the parents as soon as you take it. by the time you find classroom coverage to go to the office, the parent is already there to pick up the phone. I don't get that type of response for disrespect, poor grades, and missing class.

@@tararansom2750i don’t see locking the phone up as the answer. What happen to enforcing old fashion rules. A lot of inappropriate teachers have been exposed by cell phones. If the student doesn’t listen, then take the phone. Allow those who are responsible users to have them in case of emergencies. Making sure everybody locks up there phone sounds like a huge waste of time especially if there are ways to get around it. Such as a burner phone being locked up while the real phone is kept in secret. 💡

@esils I teach 135 students in 6 classes. Enforcing cellphone rules from 8-3. Confiscating phones when rules are violated is a daily occurrence and an interruption of the learning process. You got to confiscate the phone, find someone to cover your class, take the phone to the office, and then call the parent. Sometimes the students behavior is egregious and they escalate matters because they argue or fight over phone. Phones are a more of a problem in the classroom than a benefit in case of emergencies. 8-3 every day put your phone up, stop texting, stop listening to music, turn your phone off, don't take calls from your parent or guardian. Every day. Locking the phones up at the start of the day is less stressful on all. And let's not forget the angry parents you deal with when you take the phone. Bullying, inappropriate pictures, inappropriate usage, cheating. Please tell me what harm does it cause to either leave the phone at home or lock it up at the start of the day. When parents tell me they tired of phone calls about a phone, I tell them there is a simple solution. Take the phone. You get calls because the child violates the rules. If the child can't respect the rules, take the phone. But nobody wants to take the phone away.

They didn't meet me. Take my phone I took your car! Take my phone I take their house keys! Constitution does NOT Exclude children!

That’s illegal if I was a parent I’d be mad but I’d still punish my kid but the school has no right taking phones and excepting students to not have it until Monday

@@Idevaughan530 it’s not illegal, you don’t know what you’re talking about. It was private school

How much does it help emergency situations though? Teachers should be able to call emergency personnel and while as a parent it would be nice to connect to my child immediately after an issue I would rather them not have the ability for bullying to the level they can with phones

I keep seeing comments about "emergencies", but have yet to see someone describe and "emergency" that a cellphone would solve.

Procedure is to stay low to the floor and stay as quiet as possible and what if the teacher is causing the

They keep the pouches outside or in the main office not all the teacher have them

I'm around your age, and yeah, cell phones were absolutely not allowed when I was in high school in the early 2000s. Then when smart phones came around, there was so much nativity in education about harnessing technology to promote learning. It has been a complete disaster. There's a whole generation of young people that have limited attention spans, stunted social skills and no critical thinking abilities.

I didn’t know that the pouches were used at shows! 🙌 Need them at the 🎦. Recently I had to get uppity with someone literally talking on their 📱 to make them be respectful and put it away!

I wonder what it would be like at social gatherings

or maybe teachers are the biggest headaches? why do we not look into why children prefer cell phones to class work. long before Iphones children were bored out of their minds in school, they just passed notes or daydreamed...I suggest that if schools taught hands on survival skills, children would be very enthusiastically engaged....gardening, wood shop, nature outings, of course, academic subjects too...but cell phone use is more a SYMPTOM than a cause, the cause is ROTE LEARNING... kids were just as bored with the useless memorize and spit it out crap in the 80s as they are today. they just smoked cigarettes in the restroom rather than texting during class. if kids had their hands in soil and on jigsaws hammers and paint brushes, they would not be reaching aimlessly for cell phones. they could then grow up to be artisans and gardeners and homesteaders rather than just mindless pencil pushers and reckless consumers. Iphones actually serve to prepare children for this ugly toxic consumer paradigm.

Yup, you even have to lock up adults' phones for a show they paid to enter, only to ignore because the phones are so electrifying!

@@abcrane Right, Tom Sawyer was always getting distracted, even without modern technology. He just would rather go out and play.

And this does not mean everyone

That's just it, teachers should not be responsible for whether or not students are paying attention. Her job is to teach, not discipline. Teachers job at most is to simply report the students to the principal and continue on with class. The parent and principal can handle the discipline.

Or if there's some other emergency that happens.

Do cellphones stop bullets? Asking for a dumb friend.

100%, kinda what schools are for

LOL!!!!!!!!!! Looks like we all totally forgot that part. @@punapeter

I am glad to hear this, I hope you mean at LEAST age 16. I see "Zombie" kids daily addicted. Should be child abuse.

@@tedhardulak7698 And I would put a limit on the time they use the computer. I would only allow them to play video games that would make them interested in learning something productive, like space flight simulation games or historical video games.

Despite growing up without cellphones. i dont agree in locking away their cellphones. I think THIS is the real solution.

I didn't allow beep beep ding ding electronic toys in my house. Tools make better toy for kids. They can learn to play as the learn to work. I have a picture of me with my first tool belt on one hip and a six-gun holster on my other hip. TOOLS make better toys that beep beep plastic crap.

@@punapeter I would give my children toys that would make them interested in learning, like rocket ships or dinosaurs.

Face it? LOL NO "everyone" doesn't have those sucker's "Can you hear me Now/Personal tracking devices" (RFID chips) YOU paid for. NO ignorant sheeple did that. App clowns. Know nothing "Influencers". I know lots of people that don't have that monthly bill. My land line and internet on it is $43. a month, 24/7 streaming unlimited data. Suckers buy chargeable phones. LOL I can't wait for the EMP to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

Yes this is what kids don’t understand

@@colin985 and texting adults

@@punapeter I don’t think this matters as much because when you become an adult you have more freedom, so it shouldn’t matter if your wasting time on your phone it’s your life

@@colin985 ok kid you stick with that

Sounds like the parents job.

Kids have a better chance of being struck by lightening and being involved in a serious car accident. Sounds we just need to lock kids up in cages to keep them safe from everything.

Huge flaw indeed...

...Take PICTURES of NOTES? 🗒 Why not just note THEMSELVES? Inappropriate HOW?

@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 marlon you may not know but teachers are being inappropriate to children all the time, whether theyre been racist or violent. so many teachers fired thanks to kids having cellphones and recording the teachers. as far as notes, everyone takes pictures of things to remember as they were. also to use the focus on learning and not simply note taking.

That is unfortunate but children and there to learn and not police, @@malcriadamedina5358 . HOW does note taking distract from the learning process???

Somebody guessed it

That was the rule when we were in school, idk what changed

Were they still learning? No. I already know your follow up question, "How do you know?". I know because I understand how the human brain works. You are a child, it is the responsibility of adults to make some decisions for you. When you are older or have children of your own, you will understand.

lol didn’t get Snapchat till last year

Yep. When I was younger that’s exactly what happened. Call the office and they’ll get to your kid quickly.

100%

Times have changed and rather than wait minutes, you can reach your child within seconds. The "use the office phone" gimmick is garbage.

@@finchborat Well, you can call it garbage or a gimmick but that will be the way to go. This strategy has already shown improved concentration in classrooms and will definitely lead to improved performance in public schools. The school office desk will always be available to reach the child incase of any emergencies. Kids are there to LEARN not chill and text on their phone which they happen to have incase of any emergencies.

@@finchborat Nothing is so important you need to reach your child that quickly. education is more important.

Right so when there is a shooting you want parents to be worried sick about their child. How will the kids call the cops and communicate if need be during a shooting or another emergency? Have you thought about that?

​@@danielchou5895yeah I have, maybe arm the teachers, lock down the schools get people mental health help instead of catering to them like nothing is wrong and people who don't accept your mental illness as a normally thing are bigots then maybe you won't have to worry about school shootings. That phone won't help you much when someone is running through the school shooting with an AR I think we've seen it happen too many times now and what good did the phone do huh?

@@danielchou5895​schools have had emergencies since they’ve been around: a cell phone may allow a student to reach out to their family to say they’re ok and give temporary relief, but 1) it certainly cannot guarantee their continued safety in the event of an emergency and 2) police are not at the mercy of kids with cell phones to know if a school is under attack- _the school_ would also be aware and will call the police (some even have panic buttons similar to banks making an actual ph call unnecessarily). Either way, in an emergency like that, difficult as it would be, it’s a “wait and pray” situation no matter what - a cell isn’t going to magically transport our kids out of it. (Also to say “when” and not if is a very skewed way to look at it-hopefully it would not happen but) Either way, what is gained *daily* by students locking their phones away far outweighs what *may not* ever even happen.

@@danielchou5895Look fukkhead school shooting are rare. There is no need to have a phone in class. Kids can keep it in their bags.

I managed 12 years of school without a cell phone and never had a problem during any emergencies, call the school they know where your kid is.

10 years before you all we carried was a dime for emergencies.

If there is an emergency parents can always call the school. That how it was done in the past.

Every classroom has a landline. They will be alright.

My kids carrying a phone because the school can't keep them safe. End of discussion

Well I'll leave them at home while they're at school if there's an emergency that bad the parents can tell the school and the school can come and get the kids kids are there to learn they're not there to text and watch videos​@@rensinclair4218