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One-Awareness-5818 t1_jdeukie wrote

Here is the problem with the cellphone ban. Parents don't want to ban cellphones in school in case of emergencies like school shootings. Not providing a cellphone to your middle school kids or high school kids will hinder their social circle because a lot of socialization is happening online as well. But you know, that is where all the bullying is happening as well. I have seen some rich ass tech communities where all the parents promised not to buy their kids a cellphone until a certain age, so no one will feel left out.

The problem the teacher face is that they are essentially the bottom of the ladder. Kids not doing well, they get blame from parents and administration and politicians. No one will admit that kids failure in school started at home and it is a systematic change between poverty, parental education, culture and personal responsibility to raise kids. Another issue is that due to the popularity of website like niche and great schools with their rating system, administration doesn't want to suspend kids or punish kids or failed because it will make their rating go down. So you end up with kids who know there are no real consequences to their actions or kids who can't read in third grade. But it can also be that some kids needs one on one attention for these things and teachers can't provide that a classroom with more than 15 kids. I was at the playground yesterday and one kid was bullying another kid for over 5 minutes in front of his own mom and the mom didn't say shit, there are some shitty parents out there

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scripthook t1_jdikksr wrote

Restrict kids to using flip phones. This way you're not taking away the functionality of using a phone for emergencies. Kids can use social media outside of school, because it doesn't belong in the classroom

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PettyWitch OP t1_jdf9e9x wrote

Can you explain what are the consequences when a school’s rating goes down on these systems? Do they get less funding? I’m trying to understand WHY the administration cares about these ratings about how many kids they’ve written up.

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Rutabagel13 t1_jdlve7k wrote

I worked in HR for a mid-sized school district for several years. If suspension rates and expulsion rates were too high, the state would cut funding to our district.

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PettyWitch OP t1_jdlyis3 wrote

Well clearly that is a place to start. We need to make our state leadership understand the huge negative consequences of cutting funding based on disciplinary metrics like this. u/senatorduff

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senatorduff t1_jdm1d9g wrote

Some of the examples may be district specific. I’m not aware of any effort or policy that cuts state funding based on disciplinary metrics.

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