School confiscating phone

@MirrorBack Then you'd not be coming back until it was handed in! SIM card and all...

I’d contact the police and tell them the phone I bought for my child has been stolen. This is totally unacceptable.

I’d be happy with detention, or whatever, but I’d have something to say about them holding onto personal expensive property which some parents may not be able to collect for several days.
The problem is that schools are different now to when your adult DC were at school and the technology is different.

Just in the time I was teaching I saw a shift happened from a student being sanctioned and the parents saying "what are you playing at? Get on with your work." to a not unsubstantial number of parents now saying "actually my DC doesn't have to do a detention" with their children walking around school saying "my mam and dad say you can't give me a detention so I'm not coming. You can't take my phone off me. I'll have you arrested. My mam says you'll get the sack."

The consequences of a dumb phone being out during the school day are lower than a smart phone because the technology has more features.

Schools are changing because of both these things.

@MirrorBack I'm guessing you would go into isolation and they would call your mum and suspend you 😂

@ohdamnitjanet that old chestnut then your point is irrelevant then 🤷‍♀️!

Oh ffs. Some proper awful replies.

My children are 12/14 there is a phone's not on show policy. DD is a full on rule follower. DS has used his at break to contact me when he feels anxious. Technical rule break. Never in class. I can see, as we have an app.

I have gently reminded him that he wouldn't want it to be confiscated. I don't actually know the rules re whether it's back at end of day or with parental collection, but I would be furious. DH works in another city, home at 7, I work until after school closes. On days when I'm in the office, they come home to a empty house. The walk home can get hairy, due to behaviour of a certain group so they both often essentially live stream their route to me, with WhatsApp commentary.

Also in our school all the homework is set via a bloody app, I have the parent version only. We are not allowed access to child version. Christ knows how kids with non smart or broken phones do anything for school.

@Needmorelego That's neither here nor there. Non-working phone boxes are not new. Nor is an absence of public phones

Sigh, that old chestnut. It doesn’t, and never did apply to me.

I think when I was a kid I’d have refused to hand it over and taken whatever alternative punishment came my way 😂

Not surprised!

Clear guidelines with no exceptions.

I gave my teen a brick for out and about, more to do with the high rate of muggings for phones. He does have a smart phone in the house for social contact, and he could move the sim over if need arose.
Funnily though I’ve had a lot of feedback that he needs a smart phone and complaints. Even scouts and air cadets ask for them, aid cadets have a whole app and stuff in use his smart phone was too old for. Others want quick videos or photos taken rather than a child taking notes and delaying. So it’s not actually been the great solution it seemed… at least it’s not confiscated I guess

In my school it's gone until the end of the year if it's seen or heard at any time in the school day. It is a condition of entry, absolutely zero tolerance.

We have VERY few issues with phones in school.

You'd have been given the school policy when your child went to the school. If you don't like it, choose another school,

Don't decide you'll change the rules as you see fit.

Well, then the system was fine, wasn't it, Zanatdy? Child had phone out, against the rules. Phone confiscated. Child explains why on this occasion it would be a problem. School contacts parent. Parent confirms. School returns phone. All was well.

I’m with you @PlurplePeopleEater. My now adult ds didn’t get into trouble at school with his phone, it wasn’t such a problem then, but I don’t believe they should keep them at the end of the day. I’d be happy with detention, or whatever, but I’d have something to say about them holding onto personal expensive property which some parents may not be able to collect for several days.

@BambooFridge
😂 you're in school, sorry, yes you must be very aware of the inconvenience of them.
Anyone caught filming at my children's school is suspended for a week. There was a fight last year and the girl who filmed it and uploaded it to social media was suspended. The boys were just given a detention. They are so quick to whip out a phone and record stuff now, must be very unnerving for teachers.

I think you may have previously posted the same thing before Christmas. Your child needs to learn his lesson and not be so phone dependant,

@Zanatdy your original post was like a "blanket" the school shouldn't take the phones......

It now transpires that you raised an angel, that only once ever had a responsibility and was unfairly picked on by the school.

Even if that's true, your story is irrelevant as nothing in the OP. seems to indicate that the child hadn't broken the rules, but more like OP doesn't like the consequences.

You immediately jump to the defence that the school shouldn't keep the phones, banging on about insurance and other nonsense.

Not that the child shouldn't break the rules and face the consequences, just makes you sound like one of "those" parents.

Yes most schools do it. I dislike it, but it's very clear in the school guidelines what their phone policy is and we are told about it at Year meetings, at the start of every year.

@quisensoucie visiting my home town in the summer and going for a walk I discovered the 3 phone boxes that were on my old school walk home have now been removed.
3 - within a 20 minute walk.
That's why parents give their children phones these days.

Whoops

I don't understand the logic of it having to be returned to a parent
This is baffling to me, especially as you say it's going to be inconvenient to you, so you have worked it out.

It's inconvenient for schools to be constantly dealing either phone incidents. To be worried about being filmed, to have to contact parents and store phones etc. to have parents making up transparent nonsense about why their child must absolutely have a phone, we had a major hoo-haa at our school where the parent insisted their chiid was looking at the time.

It all takes up time when everyone involved should be doing something else. Not just you.

The school reception contacted me

Yeah you guys are right, he had to pick her up every single day, poor kid worked to the bone having to help out. And he got his phone confiscated every day as he was such a tear away and constantly disrupted his classes. Is that what you want to believe? Instead of the fact he was a model pupil who got 97% in his A level exams which was one of the highest marks in the country in his maths A level and he never had a detention and won countless awards. And he got his phone taken once, yes on the only day he had to pick up his sister. Anyway last comment from me as I’m off to work and not sitting here listening to posters re-writing history as they’ve decided my kid is a little shit because he once had his phone taken. Couldn’t be further from the truth, some parents can raise good kids, it is possible. And some kids might break an occasional rule but that doesn’t make them a bad person. Go and do something useful with your days instead of making up compete rubbish about other peoples kids

@BambooFridge It's a nudge to get your child to follow the rules. Just like detention, when you miss the school bus and need to be collected by a parent.

I don't understand the logic of it having to be returned to a parent

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