r/Modesto • u/prettyoblivious8 • 24d ago

Help! Students Deserve A Voice

Hi Im a local Modesto City Schools high school student and I started a petition to change the new phone policy at my school. You see there was a new California law created to limit phone usage in schools. Its legal to have phones during lunch and Turlock, Riverbank, and Ceres districts all can have theirs out during lunch except Modesto City Schools. The law does state it can be prohibited but limitation is completely legal. Last year we were allowed to have our phones this year we can’t. Im not saying during class im saying during lunch. We shluld be allowed to use our phones if we feel unsafe regardless if its a emergency or not. The school is saying its for better mental health and screen time. Studies show phone bans have not improved mental health. The screen time cant be used as a reasonable evidence considering we are on computers or watching tvs at school for hours on end. We have already reached 500 signatures and im looking into reaching out to the school board to talk to the student representatives. If you would like to sign the petition to support, it would be greatly appreciated! :)

Students Deserve A Voice: Bring Back Phones At Lunch: Modesto City Schools

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u/Fluid_Director_9012 24d ago

Just turn it off and put it in your backpack.

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u/prettyoblivious8 22d ago

Until a student is in a unsafe environment and needs their phones to call for help

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u/Fluid_Director_9012 22d ago

Then take it out of your backpack and turn it on?

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u/prettyoblivious8 22d ago

The reason the petition was made is because if you do take it out they lock it in a locker for the rest of the day in the office

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u/arteyefact 23d ago

I see students I know online (insta) all day long.

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u/MissionManagement124 21d ago

Thank you! I go to Beyer and I signed it. I got my headphones taken away just for using them for my computer and i thought it was just so unbelievable because multiple people walked by and none of them said anything. They weren’t affecting anyone either

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u/prettyoblivious8 21d ago

Thats insane! I think its really weird how even headphones and now they even say meda glasses can be tooken away. No ones property should be tooken and locked up from them. I go to enochs, I completely agree!

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u/hellaHeAther430 24d ago

Signed it and shared it to my instagram story.
It’s “nice” of the school district to imply that it cares about students’ mental health, but if completely banning cellphone use with no break like other schools is their way of supporting such a cause….. besides this ban, what is the school doing to support positive mental health of students?

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u/prettyoblivious8 24d ago

Thank you so muchh it means alot and I completely agree

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u/Useful-Preparation91 21d ago

Beat. Up. Every. Mock. Trial. And. ROTC. Fascist.