Possibly an alternative would be to find a way to block
calls during class from everyone but their parents,

How about teachers run through a verification process that all

>phones are in airplane-mode at the beginning of the class?

That would do what the teachers want but it is a total kill of
the phone too so no different than taking the phones away from
the kids.

Being old school I don't see the need for kids to have a phone
with them during class but younger parents are probably as
fanatical about having a phone all the time as the teenagers
are these days.

In Ye Good Olde Days, if there was an emergency, parents phoned
the school and had them fetch the kid from class but I guess
that isn't good enough anymore.

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Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS <=-

In Ye Good Olde Days, if there was an emergency, parents phoned
the school and had them fetch the kid from class but I guess
that isn't good enough anymore.

I had a scheduling change with my wife yesterday and was forced to go
into the office. I was running late because of traffic (2 hour commute)
and was able to coordinate my daughter going home with a friend and me
picking her up from there. Not an emergency, but solved easily with a
discrete text message checked outside of the classroom.



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In Ye Good Olde Days, if there was an emergency, parents phoned
the school and had them fetch the kid from class but I guess
that isn't good enough anymore.

I had a scheduling change with my wife yesterday and was forced to go

>into the office. I was running late because of traffic (2 hour commute)
>and was able to coordinate my daughter going home with a friend and me
>picking her up from there. Not an emergency, but solved easily with a
>discrete text message checked outside of the classroom.

Yes, which is fine. I don't think anyone wants kids to be cut off
from parents or even friends as long as it isn't interfering with
classes unless it is a dire emergency.

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Rob Mccart wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

Yes, which is fine. I don't think anyone wants kids to be cut off
from parents or even friends as long as it isn't interfering with
classes unless it is a dire emergency.

I can understand the desire to draw very specific lines, or to exclude
all phone calls. A 15-year old can have dire dating emergencies, hair emergencies, clothing choice emergencies... :)



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