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.
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This must be some of that socialization parents are warned their kids are going to miss out on if they are homeschooled.
Good point...I hadn’t thought about that. Are such basic phones still made and sold?
Agreed - texting should absolutely be banned in the classroom.
But I think that could easily be controlled by the teacher in the classroom vs an outright ban on smartwatches which have increasingly health related uses.
In some cases a student is going to need their smartphone as well for health purposes (Eg diabetics who monitor their blood sugar via their phone)
But otherwise, yeah, ban away.
yeah - surprisingly I was reading that there’s a trend back to simple flip phones and getting away from smartphones altogether.
“In case of an emergency, I want to be able to get in touch with my sons.”
Home school then.
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I was thinking, “Good! Kids should be learning, not staring at their devices.” But you make a good point.
I did home school them.
I’m ok with that.
While trying to teach CAD design via zoom, my brother had two monitors. On one, he was demonstrating design lessons while simultaneously he was expected to watch all of his students on the other monitor.
Because of covidiocy he was also learning a new CAD software package as he was teaching it. (Their licensed product, with which he had 20 years of expertise could only be used on school owned computers)
One student was showing porn from his smartphone to the laptop camera.
The students were so upset at this kid they petitioned the school to expel him
Of course they chose to blame my brother instead.
I help lead a boys outdoor adventure organization. I strongly support no electronics for the youth.
If there’s an emergency, parents need to call me, the leader, not their kid.
There is no emergency ever where you need to calm your kids when they are under the guidance of adults.
There are Android based watches with cameras.
Yup.🙄
“Illegal I’m sure.+
Why?
Anyone that objects to taking the cell phones away from students or prohibiting them from being used should try to teach where they are allowed. Classrooms are anarchy.
Because it could put a child at risk.
“Because it could put a child at risk.”
Then it must be illegal to send a child out without a cellphone.
The schools should butt out.
“I think the real point is.”
The point of discussion was the legality of the school’s actions.
The public government schools are scared to death they’ll get recorded while attempting to subvert and corrupt the kids.
After Monday, parents will have to contact the office to communicate with their children.
Wow! What an interesting concept.
Seems so familiar, though. 🤔
I’m sure my parents wanted the same thing.
Back then they would have had to call the school and have me fetched to the office.
A similar length of time before that, they would have had to send a runner or run themselves.
Technology has spoiled us.
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