WSJ: 'iPhones v. Parents: The Tug of War Over America's Children'

It can be harder for a school to ban or restrict something that the parents are allowing.
Before a kid can take a cellphone to school, he/she must have a parent willing to buy the cellphone and get a service plan.

I also don't understand the issue that preventing children from doing something requires parents to change their own behaviors.
When was that a thing?
Adults do things that children cannot do. We drive. We vote. We can drink alcohol.
We can use a cell phone how and when we please.
That does not make it true for children.

 

You're forgetting peer pressure and societal pressure.

 

My brother, I’m always in your corner and will root for you.

#BuckIsDoomed

 

Part of modifying behavior is modeling it for the young person. I know many teachers will stay off their phones to make it easier to get students to put theirs away.

To more directly answer your question, I'm not sure exactly when it became a thing, but it is a thing now.

As a parent, I try to model behavior for my child, but I also expect her to remember that I get to do things she can't. Some parents seem to have trouble with that last bit.

The best school policies I've heard of are zero tolerance. The phone stays out of sight during the day. They can take it out before their first class, at lunch and when their last class ends. That's it. And if they don't comply, the teacher takes it for the period. If it happens again, the phone gets turned over to the main office until a parent comes to pick it up. That's what my daughter's middle school did. Her high school is more permissive.

 

There are adult things that kids can not do and should not do, but that is not a cell phone. I would compare it more to video games, you wouldn't play video games and tell your kids they couldn't. I am not talking about checking the phone if you are waiting for a call, things like that you --i guess-- have to do. My issue is with steady phone use. My God, people never even take them out of their hands. I would love to see a survey done asking people "at this moment, what are you looking at?" I am very curious about what is so important. Maybe some of you are so into it that you forget what it's like to not have it. Look around, as humans we are looking pretty --don't even know the word. maybe distracted? unaware of our surroundings?
The idea that schools have problems with kids and phones during class is just mind boggling to me.

 

Yeah, I’ve heard of that.

 

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yeah, jeez, now we got two of them here on this board, bragging about getting laid.

 

Okay, this is fucking hilarious.

 

This board is not like that episode of Curb when Funkhouser is getting jealous of all the fun his divorced friends have. I don't think about that at all. Ever.