As a pioneer of the chat rooms schools need to ban, android, IPhones and app capable phones.

Flip phones, button keypad phones only with mandatory confiscation and turn over to admin til end of school year or face to face parent teacher conferences if seen anywhere on K-12 campuses or on school busses.

A basic phone cell phone is more than adequate for a kids needs without the distraction and the dangers of predators lurking on the social platforms that are modern day chat-rooms.

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NerdyPotato ·

Someone will have to start manufacturing a brick phone that still works now that the 1G network is dismantled. Also how are they going to use the school's apps without an app enabled phone? Perhaps simply turning it off when not needed for school is enough.

HootyTheNightOwl · 41-45

@NerdyPotato The problem is that schools aren't really blanket enforcing their own rules on mobile phones.

Where they are confiscated, they aren't always stored in a secure location, so they get stolen.

As for the part about schools' apps... some children can't even get to school without using a smart phone to access an app to scan a QR code just to get on the bus every morning. We might have gone card free, but it wasn't to the benefit of education itself.