I think a nonverbal 6 year is still squarely in the realm of needing their parent. Them wandering off school grounds ALONE is a literal emergency. And a as parent of a kid who's bullied, when they call you respond. Violence doesn't help a kid grow.
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That’s why students and classrooms have behavioral aides. That is something that the school should be sued over as it’s a major failure of the basic responsibilities. That said, it does not indicate that children should be using phones in schools at all.
aug 26, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Parents should let their kids have the space to grow and handle their problems on their own. It’s scary, I know, but it’s necessary.
aug 26, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol. You got confused. I don't want or need advice on child rearing. I have a degree that is more valuable than random internet stranger advice on appropriate child development & parenting skills.
aug 26, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if the people who decide the benefits of a ban would outweigh the drawbacks have degrees in child development too?
aug 26, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't know much about school boards, huh? The answer would be, no. Hope that helps 👍
aug 26, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I do! And the principals, teachers, and administrators (all of whom have degrees in child development) I have discussed this topic with (repeatedly) all agree that they do! That phones in school are a detriment to learning and that parent’s fears are harming their students independence!
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
A teaching degree may have classes in child development but it is not a child development degree.
aug 26, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Pedantry. Cool, cool.
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Your "claim" was factually incorrect or you lied on purpose. This is why advice from random people on the internet has zero value a lot of the time.
aug 26, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Question for you. Have you tried teaching thirty 14 year olds who have their faces in a screen all day and when you ask them to put it away they say “my mom/dad says you can’t make me?”
aug 26, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
School and learning independence should not involve physical violence. Especially grade school. Get a grip.
aug 26, 2025, 4:50 pm • 2 0 • view
You asked a mom when she planned on letting her kid develop independence when that was not at all applicable. As a classroom aide, there aren't enough of us and you should sue the system overwhelming classrooms, not the school. Anyhoo, this is obviously not the place for nuanced thought.
aug 26, 2025, 4:49 pm • 4 0 • view
I can’t speak to the rest of the world, but behavioral aides are not a common thing in classrooms where I work and their job if they are a paraprofessional is to help students with disabilities, not be a bullying monitor. I don’t know of any school that has that.
aug 26, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 0 • view
We don't generally have parapro's here either, except in the state funded (not private) pre-K. To get a 1-to-1 aide is extremely difficult.
aug 26, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Private school explains a lot. The idea that a child with even a hint of elopement behaviors was allowed any where near a gate unsupervised is crazy. I was about to comment that the school sounds horribly run and should be examined, but you just cleared that up for me. Private schools are like that.
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I never said any of my kids went to private school. And none of them did. Private Pre-K are in daycares and mean not state funded and there's no lottery for space. We are in one of the "best" school systems in the state.
aug 26, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Again, sue them.
aug 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I work in high school ID. I should give five of them in my classroom. I have two lol.
aug 26, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
That is a problem, but not one that allowing students to have phones will solve.
aug 26, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I am a high school teacher and a high school parent, I see the phones in schools argument multiple times a year on social media. I probably shouldn’t have even commented because it ends up being one of the most toxic conversations always.
aug 26, 2025, 6:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Our school system originally allowed phones under BYOT to bridge the gap before 1:1 tech had been fully implemented. One of the first in the state for 1:1 tech. Lucked out during covid because we already had tech in place.
aug 26, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 0 • view
There seemed to be fewer issues with phones when they were allowed under BYOT. But my kids were much younger then. Two of mine are adults now & they're glad they're not in the school system anymore.
aug 26, 2025, 6:49 pm • 2 0 • view
I am ready for mine to be done (only one more year lol). Phones are a major problem in schools, but I don’t have the answers.
aug 26, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Until schools can provide safety across the board, phones will be needed. Maybe tracker watches are the way to go as apps are limited in functionality but they can still text/call parents.
aug 26, 2025, 6:59 pm • 2 0 • view
If a nonverbal kid elopes off campus, that is definitely the fault of their classroom aide, teacher, and administrators.
aug 26, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view