Comments on: Escambia Schools Plan To ‘Unplug’ Next Friday

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:55:22 +0000

I’d really like to see the Chromebooks disappear and have the teachers actually “teach” again.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:25:07 +0000

“Bobby”, teachers today are the Law Enforcement Officers, Mental Health Counselors, and Drug Treatment Facility workers who try to fight this addiction of “cell phones” each day. It is an addiction and we have to find the solutions. This is one step towards awareness. You can’t say it was all the student’s fault. They were presented with this addition at the age of 11-12. Many adults know this addiction as well. “Bobby” step into the classroom and you will see it firsthand. You will be amazed at how a simple “buzz”, “ding” or an “instant gratification notification” takes over the mind of a teen. With that said, understandably whatever is going on in class takes a back seat to the cell phone. This addiction is moving faster than we can keep up with and the youth of today, unfortunately, are the ones being hit the hardest.

By: Molino Mom

Molino Mom — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:25:28 +0000

My middle school kid just said “wait – so no computers? Our teachers actually have to talk to us?!”

With so much focus on cell phones, that’s a perspective I had not considered.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:32:30 +0000

Why isn’t every day Unplug Day?

By: Mom

Mom — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:49:38 +0000

Does this include the chromebooks that they are taught on? I’m not sure how many of the teachers would know what to do without using electronics in the classroom.

By: SgtCasper

SgtCasper — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:26:58 +0000

I am all for following along with what other schools across the country have done and ban them in schools completely. If you’re caught with a cellphone, five days suspension. Here we all are with our cellphones out all the time and look at us. The adults are getting dumber and the kids aren’t learning anything to begin with. I work in a place where a lot of middle school and high school kids are in and out, I had to put up a digital clock because these 15-16-17 year olds were never taught to read a clock. Crazy. One of those same kids sat down with me and explained perfectly, step by step, how to run a cash app scam on your phone. Where did he learn this? At school.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:40:03 +0000

In order to draw attention to the serious mental and social harm addiction to heroin causes for our youth in the United States, ECPS will take a day to stop heroin use and focus on intentional personal interaction.

Now how stupid does that sound? If this is really a major problem, this should never be allowed in schools. Until we take this serious, it’s never gonna get better.

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:34:32 +0000

Allot of school systems across the country has banned cell phones in classrooms. GREAT IDEA.
ALLOW a few appointed to carry for 911 call

By: anne

anne — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:17:02 +0000

They should treat it as a learning class. How to survive without technology. How to use your personal knowledge to live in our world. Very important skills.

By: Mike J.

Mike J. — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:31:15 +0000

Good Luck with that. No way you are going to get thousands of kids to put their phones down and actually listen to teachers all day. I see kids at the school bus stops all looking down at their phones. Same with kids in the mall or in the stores. Adults too. We all do it.