Kansas Just BANNED Phones in Schools

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00:00Okay, don't lose it. Let's go. Next one up, please. Get yourself in line after you deposit your phone.

00:09Phones away. Some Kansas students will have to hand them over before the first bell even rings.

00:13New this school year, House Bill 2299 requires districts to ban cell phone use during the school day.

00:19As our Zach Summers reports, schools are taking different approaches to make that happen.

00:24And we all have to understand the impact cell phones have had on our young people.

00:30When students arrive at Wyandotte High School this week, their cell phones won't be going to class with them.

00:36We've established a two-step procedure.

00:39This is the first school year under Kansas' new bell-to-bell cell phone policy.

00:44Phones must be off and stored, not just silence, from the first bell to the last, including lunch and passing

00:50periods.

00:51Our administrative team, along with a handful of our classified front office staff and a few other folks,

00:57we will manage a collection of the cell phones at entry and at dismissal.

01:03At Wyandotte High, students will turn in their phones when they arrive and get them back when the final bell

01:09rings.

01:10Principal Dr. Bryant Gulliford says after registering their phones,

01:14students will store them in one of several new cell phone lockers installed across campus.

01:18We want to make sure we're patient, we're flexible, but yet intentional.

01:23Administrators expect a learning curve so they won't be counting tardies the first week

01:27and are considering a staggered dismissal.

01:30If a student refuses to turn over their phone,

01:33we'll handle most of that, all of that, largely on a case-by-case basis.

01:37Of all the districts we reviewed, KCKPS is taking the most hands-on approach,

01:42spending $150,000 on those cell phone lockers for every middle and high school student in the district.

01:49Olathe and Baser-Lynwood also bought dedicated storage,

01:53but for most other districts, they're relying on existing lockers, backpacks, or the school office.

01:59The message for most districts, leave your phone at home or in your car.

02:03If students bring them, Shawnee Mission and Paola require them to be stored in student lockers,

02:09while Gardner-Edgerton uses lockers or classroom storage.

02:12Elementary students in KCKPS and Bonner Springs-Edwardsville must keep their phones in their backpacks.

02:19And in districts like DeSoto and Spring Hill, students can leave their phones in the school office if needed.

02:24I know it'll be a big change for high schoolers.

02:26Allison Brimblecum, a former teacher, has two students in the Shawnee Mission School District.

02:31She supports the law, but worries districts without dedicated storage may struggle to enforce it consistently.

02:38When you're giving kids the option, don't bring it, put it in your car, and putting it in your locker,

02:44that allows a lot of room for inconsistency.

02:47She understands for parents, losing the ability to immediately reach their child will take some adjustment,

02:53but believes keeping phones out of students' hands will reduce distractions.

02:56I think it's too much to expect developing brains to have to discipline themselves.

03:04You would never want to send your kid away to a summer camp and then just think,

03:07oh, they're just on their phone all day.

03:09I think we should have the same mindset with school.

03:13Back at Wyandotte High, Dr. Golliford believes fewer distractions will lead to more engaged students.

03:19So I'm anxious to see what lunch looks like.

03:23I'm really looking forward to that kids truly engaging with each other.

03:27The real test comes when the school bell rings, and for the first time, the phones won't.

03:33There are exceptions to the law.

03:34It also restricts how teachers can communicate with students on social media.

03:39You can read your district's full policy on our website, KCTV.

03:44Yeah, so as you heard there, Kansas has taken a step to ban all students' cell phones during school hours

03:53from bell to bell.

03:55And, you know, considering the topic of discussion that we've been talking about more recently,

04:01which is, you know, these students not being able to read, write, or comprehend at grade level,

04:10I'm all for it.

04:12My only, my only trepidation is an emergency.

04:20We have some lunatics.

04:22We have some crazy, batshit crazy people amongst us that think it's a great idea for whatever reason.

04:29I think it's weak and pathetic to go inside of schools and shoot people.

04:37And so, in that type of situation, I worry, right?

04:42Especially in Democrat-run areas where, you know,

04:48personally, I think every school should have an officer or a retired veteran

04:55armed, ready to confront any type of threat.

04:59But, you know, amongst other things, you know, metal detectors would be great as well.

05:06Making sure no student can bring in any type of firearm into the school would be phenomenal as well.

05:12But, of course, you know, the left would say, well, these aren't prisons.

05:15No, they aren't prisons.

05:16Of course not.

05:17They're schools.

05:17And we want to protect these folks.

05:19And these are steps, real steps, to protect people.

05:26But, yeah, I mean, I like the idea.

05:29I like the idea.

05:30You know, I feel like there needs to be something done about these failing grades.

05:37And I think this is one of the things that could be done.

05:39I'm not saying it's going to solve everything in terms of, you know, our students, you know,

05:48reading, writing, and everything else.

05:51But I think it takes a step in the right direction.

05:54Because I think one of the things that is a downfall for students nowadays is technology.

06:01Everybody's got technology at the tip of their fingers, right?

06:05And so I think it's partly made a lot of people lazy, including myself, to be quite honest, right?

06:11It's super easy to have this spell check everything or to, you know, type something in the calculator really quickly

06:19rather than actually really thinking, right?

06:22This does the thinking for you.

06:24And so when you've never learned anything at grade level or comprehended anything at grade level, and you've got this

06:33doing everything for you, you're definitely going to be behind.

06:37Like, it's one thing to have already gone through school, already, you know, did all of that, passed with flying

06:42colors.

06:43And then now you get this kind of technology where everything comes easy.

06:47Like, I feel like that's a little bit different.

06:49But when you're a student and you haven't learned that kind of stuff and you have that at the tip

06:55of your fingertips, probably not good.

06:58And we've seen with the test scores, it really isn't good.

07:02And so I'm going to talk about this a little bit.

07:05It is an interesting topic of discussion because, especially with, you know, students nowadays, they came out the womb with

07:18phones.

07:20You know, they popped out of the womb with the cell phone to their, you know, yip yapping and jaw

07:26jacking.

07:27So it's going to be one hell of an adjustment for them.

07:32Getting rid of phones in schools didn't do anything to increase test scores.

07:36We took away cell phones for a year.

07:38Test scores still haven't gone up, but suspensions have increased.

07:41Tell me you don't work in education without telling me that you don't work in education.

07:45This news comes as no surprise to any educator with boots on the ground.

07:50We know within education, change is slow.

07:52Even when a school implements a new curriculum, there's an understanding that it's going to take about three to five

07:58years of solid implementation before you really start to see the desired results.

08:03Cell phone bans are still in their infancy.

08:05It's been a year in some places, maybe two in others.

08:08And as somebody who's been out of school who tried to implement a cell phone ban for the very first

08:12time, I can tell you that very first year is full of students and some parents trying to really push

08:19boundaries to see if admin is really going to stand 10 toes down and enforce this policy.

08:24Like y'all do realize that we're dealing with a generation that was practically born with a cell phone in

08:29their hand.

08:29So of course there's going to be a spike in suspensions because kids are crashing out because they don't know

08:33how to handle this.

08:34And no, cell phone bans by themselves, they're not going to move the needle.

08:38That's just one piece of the test score puzzle to go along with class sizes, chronic absenteeism, differentiation, or lack

08:45thereof when it comes to a standardized test, behavior issues, and budget cuts.

08:50Because budget cuts means less educators in the building.

08:54Less educators in the building means less individualized one-on-one support for your student.

09:01Getting rid of phones and...

09:03Yeah, I mean, I agree for the most part with that, right?

09:08This is just one step in the right direction that I think we really do need to take because it

09:13is scary.

09:14And I'm going to be making another video about our education system here shortly in the coming days, maybe tomorrow,

09:22we'll see.

09:23And you're going to be shocked.

09:26You're going to be absolutely shocked.

09:27Your jaw is going to drop.

09:30So I really do think something, anything, you know, needs to be done.

09:36And this is one of the things that I think is a great idea.

09:40I think we should take all technology away, right?

09:44All technology should be taken away.

09:46No laptops because that's become a big thing.

09:49Or tablets, right, in the classrooms because those have become big things in classrooms now.

09:54Now, I don't think those things should be in the classroom whatsoever.

09:59Nope.

10:00Take them away.

10:01Write back to old school number two pencil and some paper.

10:07That's it.

10:08That's all you got.

10:09If you need to write or, you know, put an essay together, you can write it out by hand.

10:19You don't need to type it out.

10:20You can write it out by hand.

10:24Because obviously that's going to force students to remember how to spell for one.

10:30There's no spell check on a, you know, in a spiral notebook.

10:35There's no spell checking that.

10:37You know what I mean?

10:39So I think all technology should be taken away, including cell phones.

10:43Like I said, my only cause to pause is emergencies.

10:47Because we have some straight lunatics amongst us that do stupid SHIT, you know, unfortunately.

10:56That's my only, really my only pushback against this.

11:01What if there's an emergency?

11:03And the parent wants to contact their child.

11:05Now they can't.

11:07And they probably won't be able to for a really long time.

11:10Because the last thing you're going to want to do is to find where your cell phone is in an

11:15emergency.

11:16You're just getting out of there, you know?

11:18So let me know your thoughts and your opinions about all of this.

11:22Good idea.

11:23Bad idea.

11:23Also, what else could be done to help our youth?

11:29Let me know.

11:30Stay safe out there.

11:30Peace and love.

11:31I'm out.

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