MA: High School to lock students' cell phones during school day [telecom]

[The Telecom Digest]

Chicopee Comprehensive High to lock students’ cell phones during school day, joining Chicopee High

By Jeanette DeForge

CHICOPEE – Comprehensive High School will soon be locking up
teenagers’ cell phones in magnetic pouches, after staff at its sister
high school have reported seeing students’ grades and concentration
levels improve when they did the same.

Comprehensive High School is planning to implement a program where
students are each given a cell phone pouch that is locked with
specialized magnets when they enter the school. At dismissal, the
phones are unlocked.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/08/chicopee-comprehensive-high-to-lock-students-cell-phones-during-school-day-joining-chicopee-high.html

[Jeff Jonas]

Chicopee Comprehensive High to lock students’ cell phones during school day, joining Chicopee High
CHICOPEE – Comprehensive High School will soon be locking up
teenagers’ cell phones in magnetic pouches

Umm, errr, yes, no, maybe?

At first glance I agree that cellphones are abused and too distracting.
But isn't the easier solution for the students
to just not bring their cellphones to school at all?

And what if there's an emergency where ALL cellphones ought to be available?

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[Bill Horne]

Post by Jeff Jonas

Post by The Telecom Digest
Chicopee Comprehensive High to lock students’ cell phones during school day, joining Chicopee High
CHICOPEE – Comprehensive High School will soon be locking up
teenagers’ cell phones in magnetic pouches

Umm, errr, yes, no, maybe?
At first glance I agree that cellphones are abused and too distracting.
But isn't the easier solution for the students
to just not bring their cellphones to school at all?

Heaven forfend! That’s Communist! That’s Un-Americun! That’s
unprofitable! How could you even suggest that all the young,
impressionalbe consumers-in-training be denied access to
advertisements while they are forming the brand-loyalties and
consumption habits which will provide a basis for Americun industry
and marketing for the rest of their lives?

Post by Jeff Jonas
And what if there's an emergency where ALL cellphones ought to be available?

Such as an AR-15 in the hands of another child? Calls for help won’t
make any difference worth mentioning: we don’t need panicked children
to sound the alarm. We need courage from our leaders who live off the
campaign contributions of the arms industry.

The school administrators and teachers are just tired of having
contradictory sources of information in the hands of children whom
aren't yet well-enough indoctrinated to ignore viewpoints other than
the ones the schools are paid to inculcate into their pointy little
heads.

Bill Horne

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[John Levine]

Post by Bill Horne

Post by Jeff Jonas

Post by The Telecom Digest
Chicopee Comprehensive High to lock students’ cell phones during school day, joining Chicopee High
CHICOPEE – Comprehensive High School will soon be locking up
teenagers’ cell phones in magnetic pouches

Umm, errr, yes, no, maybe?
At first glance I agree that cellphones are abused and too distracting.
But isn't the easier solution for the students
to just not bring their cellphones to school at all?

Heaven forfend! That’s Communist! That’s Un-Americun!

More to the point, it's impractical.

While I would think it was fine if the school told my daughter not to
have her phone while she's at school, I would just as soon she did
have it while walking there and back. Plenty of high school kids go
directly from school to work and other places where it's OK to have a
phone.

R's,
John