Posted on 04/02/2022 10:16:15 AM PDT by george76
A Missouri high school announced it would ban smartphones and smartwatches beginning Monday.
Steelville High School made the announcement Thursday on Facebook, claiming it's the school's latest attempt to prevent students from taking photos and videos of each other for social media. The new policy is a roundabout way to prevent child pornography from being filmed in the form of impromptu videos in school bathrooms, according to the principal.
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Student devices will be locked up and returned upon dismissal or they may choose to not bring them at all," Principal Steven Vetter wrote. "Any student who violates this new procedure will have their phone taken and a parent or guardian will be required to pick it up. Second offense will result in the same, plus the addition of after school detention."
Steelville opted to limit comments on the post, but it still garnered over 600 likes and 800 shares as of this report.
Vetter has been the principal for six years. He saw a similar policy work at the local junior high before deciding to implement it at the higher level.
After Monday, parents will have to contact the office to communicate with their children.
What the school is really worried about are students filming the teachers instructing them on the best sex positions after transgendering, all while hating white people.
What? A ‘publik skool’ with morals and perhaps even some real education?
Get outta here!
Illegal I’m sure.
The kids might actually learn something not staring at the damn things all day.
Smartphones I get and good.
Watches? There’s NO smartwatch on the market at the moment that takes pictures (though you can do texting - which should be banned anyway).
Methinks this is more about stopping recording teachers teaching marxism than “helping the children” though.
+1
Rural Missouri about 20 miles from me. That school and the schools in the other two towns near me all went back to school in Fall 2020. They didn’t do that distance learning bs.
I suspect you are spot on.
The first and only concerns of school boards, administrators, teachers and their unions is THEIR welfare, agenda and protection from accountability. It is NEVER about the students. Their constant and false claims that “it’s for the children” is the equivalent of black people crying “racism”. It’s overused, worn-out and long past its expiration date.
In case of an emergency, I want to be able to get in touch with my sons.
So dems train kids from Kindergarten on to look at and watch and participate in porn, like having trans story time and than in HS they are WORRIED that these same well trained kids in sex and porn are told it is not allowed to use their phones to take images of the same thing they have been groomed to watch? Do I have that right? Good idea. Teach them to do it and then tell then it is wrong. AND THESE are our educators? Sound like pedophiles to me.
I suppose you could always do what we did in the good old days — call the school and have them find your son
Perhaps you should educate yourself about smartwatches before posting incorrect information.
Making it easier for the next school shooting.
Disarmed and silenced from calling 911.
I’m sure you can happily show me some links to prove your asinine statement.
You can do a lot with a watch. I rely on mine to keep me going and informed and available no matter where. Not that I necessarily always want it…it can be a distraction.
I can understand where the school is coming from, because most kids are busy texting (even perfectly harmless stuff, not porn) and are paying no attention. So cell phones probably shouldn’t be allowed in the classroom. I remember when we weren’t allowed to bring in comic books in NYC, because everybody was reading them under their desks….
And while it’s probably true that the school doesn’t want the kids reporting on the latest sex ed class for 3-yr olds, most of this information has come through other sources (children telling their parents) rather than a kid recording it.
So I’d be in favor of having them drop off their phones in an electronic locker near the door, where they could get them if they needed them. As for the watches, you can get pinged all the time on your watch and you can either type or dictate your responses…but responding is so obvious that a teacher could easily control that.
I hope. Assuming he or she is not busy texting too.
If this applies to Smart phones, then get $20 flip phone at Wally World.
Problem solved.
I currently sub at a school I taught at for many years. The kids are great and like me so it’s easy to spend the day with them. But over the last couple of years the use of cell phones has become nearly universal. This is at the junior high level.
It used to be that phones had to be kept in their lockers during school hours, but then someone had the idea of removing the locks from the lockers because the kids were constantly jamming them. So now the kids carry their phones all day. The polite ones will ask permission to take them out, but most will just whip them out and do whatever—usually text. Some will retire to a bathroom to use them.
It wasn’t such a problem in the past because the school has sketchy at best reception, but the kids use the school’s wi-fi to get around that.
School also issued ChromeBooks to every kid, so some kids are walking down the hallway with eyes glued to them rather than to what’s going on around them. And then there’s the earbuds. Some never leave their ears unless a teacher tells them to remove them. Who knows what they are listening to.
I realize I’m a geezer, but trust me, technology has not improved instruction or learning at all. Attention spans have grown shorter and reading skills have plummeted.
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