Schools are competing with cell phones. Here’s how they think they could win
https://apnews.com/article/school-cell-phone-ban-extracurricular-afterschool-4d89f5b7fd7c8f1d5903f8c04f26da54
Posted by LynnK0919
Schools are competing with cell phones. Here’s how they think they could win
https://apnews.com/article/school-cell-phone-ban-extracurricular-afterschool-4d89f5b7fd7c8f1d5903f8c04f26da54
Posted by LynnK0919
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>…Cell phone pouches, lockers and bins have grown in popularity to [help enforce device bans](https://apnews.com/article/school-cell-phone-ban-01fd6293a84a2e4e401708b15cb71d36).
>John Nguyen, a chemistry teacher in California, invented a pouch system because he was so distressed by bullying and fights on phones during class, often without adults interfering. Many teachers are afraid to confront students using phones during lessons, Nguyen said, and others have given up trying to stop it.
>At Nguyen’s school, students lock their phones in neoprene pouches during classes or even all day. A teacher or principal’s magnetic key unlocks the pouches.
>It doesn’t matter how dynamic the lesson, said Nguyen, who teaches at Marina Valley High School and now markets the pouches to other schools. “There’s nothing that can compete with the cell phone.”
Thank goodness cell phones weren’t invented when I was going to school when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Kids have it so tougher these days.
BTW, if teachers “are afraid to confront” students about using phones during class, then I’d like to suggest they get weekly coaching lessons from the principal after school!