AIBU to ask for advice on how to overturn a school decision - quickly

Perhaps the teachers are being provided with roller skates and a lassoo. Then they can wrestle the children to the ground and grab the phone.

“Chase them down” Stop it!

The level of ignorance is worrying, for people who claim to be "educators" 😂!

On reflection I think @NeverDropYourMooncup idea is more workable and the cash converters point could be considered entrepreneurial.

Sorry this did make me chuckle re the flashbacks. 🤣

Oh stop, you are giving me flashbacks of home ed group meet ups 🤣🤣

I am still part of a couple of home ed Facebook groups and posts occasionally come up.

The most batshit one I saw this summer was people “thinking” of all the 5 year olds starting school this year, who will have to spend 6 hours a day sitting in one spot in silence, unable to make friends with the children around them. Hmmmmm. Not like any reception class I’ve ever seen!

Sad thing is, lot's of other home ed parents were bigging her up and encouraging her. It's awful, teaching children to mock other children for living a different lifestyle. And sitting around having a picnic isn't educational, school parents do that all the time.

That's a great idea. I'm sure the education budget could be stretched for this.

Sorry to hear something awful happened to your child. I think lots of schools are still allowing dumb phones for travel purposes, I've just had to buy one for my DD, so there may be some potential for the school to rethink their position. It's really useful if a child can let you know if they've missed the bus or the bus didn't turn up or crashed or broke down etc etc.

I worry about her children, especially if they have to join in with unpleasant and humiliating stunts, like the laughing outside the primary school.
I hope someone's checking on them.

Not without upset though. I was in some horrible situations where a phone to call my dad really would have helped me out. Adults were no good, they pretended not to see. If I could have got off the bus early and called him, I probably wouldn’t have been assaulted.

She's also vegan, no issue with that, great but oh god the sanctimonious posts, and has that vegan habit of talking AT people and going straight for the aggression rather than talking TO people. She is a bit batshit, admittedly I think I hate follow her now almost as eye rolling entertainment, yes I know that isn't great either.

Oh my god, so I am currently recovering from an operation (hence my terrible phone addiction and being on this thread all day - I can’t get out of bed), and a friend of mine is round to see me.

Anyway, was just discussing kids and phones with her and she reminded me about our blazer policy at school in the early 90s.

We had to wear them to and from school, and yes, if they saw us after school, the teachers would scream blue murder from their cars if we weren’t wearing them (super strict grammar).

We were yelled at a couple of times at the bus stop as we had taken them off in the summer.

My friends parents got called in Because she flipped the finger at the teacher when he saw her walking through town without her blazer on after school.

Absolutely fucking mental.

But you DID survive. We humans are a resourcful lot, aren't we 😄

If a teacher is on a journey home and sees a child on a phone, they will “chase them down the street and snatch it out of their hand”

have you quoted the school policy verbatim on this one or is it your interpretation? It sounds very dramatic.

If the matter was that serious that you SHOULD have involved the police, and that you have been up most the night - then why didn't you involved the police? Especially if your child's safety was compromised so greatly.

I'm trying to work out the true severity, and to what extent you are being dramatic as indicated by your language used.

Can't imagine being able to sneak that one into the PE Department's contracts, somehow, even if Mr Thatcher, St Smugwort's Associate Assistant Head and Principal Phone Snatcher does have a certain something.

Could possibly create a School Prefect+ role for the Rugby Team with a reward trip to Cash Converters for the most phones collected in a term, I guess, though.

😂😂😂😂

Yes, it's wild, isn't it? She sounds a bit weird though.

The school need to invest in the pouches. My kids school have them and they have worked well. But as soon as they leave school and they are unlocked then the school should have no say when it comes to using a mobile.
Its up to the child's parents/guardian if they have a mobile.

Do not agree with this at all!! Kids out on their own above the age of 11 need their own phones so that we as parents can keep them safe (track them/calls when they are in situations). How do you keep track of your kids? My kids have always known we are a call away if they need us.

Now we have the honest truth. Thank you. I think we should go one step further because teachers are so over stretched. There should be a role created for a ‘chase and snatch’ officer. Educational Pay grade disclosed on appointment.

It could be a role that would suit a retired Olympian, like Usain Bolt. He could cover multiple schools at once.

Quite inspired isn't it

It's made up tosh

That's sad!. I think Home Ed is a wonderful path and the right one for many, but some get silly and fanatical about it.

I told her it was incredibly disappointing. But she always posts fanatical nonsense, and I'll probably get crucified for saying this but the "teachers chasing children up the road and forcing the phone out of their hands" sounds like something a Home Ed parent would say to their child to frighten them out of wanting to go to school, or to guilt parents.