Join me in helping reverse this new Worcester Public Schools cell phone policy, we need support to reverse it. Please sign and I plan to present to the new school committee. HELP ME CHANGE THIS !!!! #saveourphones2016
The new rule is as follows:
"Rule 14. - Cell Phones, Electronic Devices, and Laser Pointing Devices
While on school premises or at a school sponsored event, a student shall not,
without expressed permission of appropriate school personnel, use any cell phone,
smart phone, tablet, camera or any other type of electronic device which may potentially
be disruptive of school activities or a distraction to students. Electronic
devices shall include any cell phone, smart phone, tablet or anything powered by
electricity and is suitable for communicating any oral, voice, audio or text messages
or postings or for recording or communicating any audio, voice, picture, image or
video imagery. Students are not permitted to have their cell phones or electronic
devices powered while in school. "
The new discipline for this policy:
"This cell phone policy may be enforced by the principal, any teacher (including substitutes) or by any other school official or employee designated by the principal. Enforcement personnel shall have the right to confiscate any cell phone or electronic device possessed or used in violation of the Code of Conduct. Penalties for students found in violation of the policy will be as follows:
-First offense: Student’s cell phone/electronic device will be confiscated and returned to the student at the end of the school day.
-Second and subsequent offenses: Student’s cell phone/electronic device will be confiscated and returned only to the student’s parents or guardians. Any such parent or guardian may, within five days of any such confiscation, request a hearing to determine the validity of the violation of the Code of Conduct and resulting confiscation of the cell phone/electronic device. In such event the principal shall designate a hearing officer who shall:
1) give the student and/or his or her parents/guardians an opportunity to present their case;
2) hear or review the incident report from the enforcing person and any other person with relevant information; and
3) provide a recommendation to the principal as to whether there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the cell phone policy of the Code of Conduct was violated by the student. Regardless of any request for a hearing, any confiscated cell phone/electronic device shall be returned to the parent/guardian at the first opportunity and shall not be dependent on the scheduling or outcome of any hearing.
- Student committing repeated violations of this policy may be subject to additional disciplinary action, consistent with the Worcester Public Schools Code of Conduct up to and including suspension from school. "
Updates
September 22, 2016
The stories students are sending me about the new confiscation rules are frustrating. Working on getting these accounts in front of the school committee next.
September 22, 2016
The momentum is incredible. It is clear that students and families are ready for a change.
Reached 100 supporters
September 22, 2016
36 Comments
School Board is made up of people who aren't in our generation; they will never understand how technology will benefit us. Instead they're worried about what it will DO to us.
I mean come on now. Emergencies exist and you can't take away our number one way of communicating to parents/guardians.
Phone policy is wicked , what is the need for a suspension after carrying a cellular device .. ON .. in school. Honestly
teachers should be teaching students how to use phones the right way in school, and using them academically.
I honestly feel like this rule ain't right, I understand that we can't use them in class but not having it at lunch at right because that's the only time we have to ourselves when we aren't in class so I honestly feel like we should ain't less have them at lunch
Were gonna use em anyways so just chill out with it.
This new policy needs to be amended for a plethora of reasons. First off, and probably the most important, is the emergency communication factor. If there is something like an immediate death or hospitalization of someone in your family, how else would you know right at that moment what's going on? This is your family who you hold near and dear to your heart and the school board shouldn't take away that right to know if there is an emergency, to keep you updated or to say that your parents are coming to dismiss you because this means too much to them and you and want to make sure everything goes swimmingly. What if my police officer dad gets seriously injured in a violent protest or just protecting and serving? If you were in my shoes, you would want to be fully updated because you wouldn't want to lose your father, or anyone at all, due to the actions of one individual so we need to know immediately whats happening. My next reason is for academic purposes. Is the school board seriously ignoring the one reason our schools are set up, which is to give us an education? There are plenty of apps and technological tools that will assist us in getting that education we want, need, and deserve from going to school every day. What if you forget what you have to do for homework but want to find out so you can do it and not take the zero? You should be able to find out from a classmate when you're home what it is if they have it and if they can send you via picture the questions assigned for homework if you don't already have it. The board is completely ignoring the fact that one of the schools in our district is Worcester TECH. My final point I will make is some of the mental reasoning. Sometimes us teenagers can go through depression depending on how they feel. Even at school they feel unsafe because they are in the presence of a fellow student known to bully them and have been charged for a crime and have been kicked out before. Both depression and unsafe feelings du
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Join me in helping reverse this new Worcester Public Schools cell phone policy, we need support to reverse it. Please sign and I plan to present to the new school committee. HELP ME CHANGE THIS !!!! #saveourphones2016
The new rule is as follows:
"Rule 14. - Cell Phones, Electronic Devices, and Laser Pointing Devices
While on school premises or at a school sponsored event, a student shall not,
without expressed permission of appropriate school personnel, use any cell phone,
smart phone, tablet, camera or any other type of electronic device which may potentially
be disruptive of school activities or a distraction to students. Electronic
devices shall include any cell phone, smart phone, tablet or anything powered by
electricity and is suitable for communicating any oral, voice, audio or text messages
or postings or for recording or communicating any audio, voice, picture, image or
video imagery. Students are not permitted to have their cell phones or electronic
devices powered while in school. "
The new discipline for this policy:
"This cell phone policy may be enforced by the principal, any teacher (including substitutes) or by any other school official or employee designated by the principal. Enforcement personnel shall have the right to confiscate any cell phone or electronic device possessed or used in violation of the Code of Conduct. Penalties for students found in violation of the policy will be as follows:
-First offense: Student’s cell phone/electronic device will be confiscated and returned to the student at the end of the school day.
-Second and subsequent offenses: Student’s cell phone/electronic device will be confiscated and returned only to the student’s parents or guardians. Any such parent or guardian may, within five days of any such confiscation, request a hearing to determine the validity of the violation of the Code of Conduct and resulting confiscation of the cell phone/electronic device. In such event the principal shall designate a hearing officer who shall:
1) give the student and/or his or her parents/guardians an opportunity to present their case;
2) hear or review the incident report from the enforcing person and any other person with relevant information; and
3) provide a recommendation to the principal as to whether there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the cell phone policy of the Code of Conduct was violated by the student. Regardless of any request for a hearing, any confiscated cell phone/electronic device shall be returned to the parent/guardian at the first opportunity and shall not be dependent on the scheduling or outcome of any hearing.
- Student committing repeated violations of this policy may be subject to additional disciplinary action, consistent with the Worcester Public Schools Code of Conduct up to and including suspension from school. "
Updates
September 22, 2016
The stories students are sending me about the new confiscation rules are frustrating. Working on getting these accounts in front of the school committee next.
September 22, 2016
The momentum is incredible. It is clear that students and families are ready for a change.
Reached 100 supporters
September 22, 2016
36 Comments
Are we the Amish? Give me one logical reason why we shouldn't be allowed to have technology to take notes, and use at lunch. Taking the tech out of tech.
School Board is made up of people who aren't in our generation; they will never understand how technology will benefit us. Instead they're worried about what it will DO to us.
I mean come on now. Emergencies exist and you can't take away our number one way of communicating to parents/guardians.
Phone policy is wicked , what is the need for a suspension after carrying a cellular device .. ON .. in school. Honestly
teachers should be teaching students how to use phones the right way in school, and using them academically.
I honestly feel like this rule ain't right, I understand that we can't use them in class but not having it at lunch at right because that's the only time we have to ourselves when we aren't in class so I honestly feel like we should ain't less have them at lunch
Were gonna use em anyways so just chill out with it.
This new policy needs to be amended for a plethora of reasons. First off, and probably the most important, is the emergency communication factor. If there is something like an immediate death or hospitalization of someone in your family, how else would you know right at that moment what's going on? This is your family who you hold near and dear to your heart and the school board shouldn't take away that right to know if there is an emergency, to keep you updated or to say that your parents are coming to dismiss you because this means too much to them and you and want to make sure everything goes swimmingly. What if my police officer dad gets seriously injured in a violent protest or just protecting and serving? If you were in my shoes, you would want to be fully updated because you wouldn't want to lose your father, or anyone at all, due to the actions of one individual so we need to know immediately whats happening. My next reason is for academic purposes. Is the school board seriously ignoring the one reason our schools are set up, which is to give us an education? There are plenty of apps and technological tools that will assist us in getting that education we want, need, and deserve from going to school every day. What if you forget what you have to do for homework but want to find out so you can do it and not take the zero? You should be able to find out from a classmate when you're home what it is if they have it and if they can send you via picture the questions assigned for homework if you don't already have it. The board is completely ignoring the fact that one of the schools in our district is Worcester TECH. My final point I will make is some of the mental reasoning. Sometimes us teenagers can go through depression depending on how they feel. Even at school they feel unsafe because they are in the presence of a fellow student known to bully them and have been charged for a crime and have been kicked out before. Both depression and unsafe feelings du
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Are we the Amish? Give me one logical reason why we shouldn't be allowed to have technology to take notes, and use at lunch. Taking the tech out of tech.