Our school district is implementing identical thing, very similar, justifying this with health and emotional wellness and anti-cyber-bullying. They are checking in the phones into Yondr pouches.
I wish them luck on the implementation... I think there have a steep challenge ahead of them. One thing my boys told me is that they have QR codes for homework/assignments/worksheets that everyone used phones to scan and do work on there with GSuite - and the school provided laptops won't be able to do this. The that everyone in K-8 everyone has can do QRs okay though.
> The Economist: American parents want their children to have phones in schools | But phones in the classroom are disruptive. What should schools do?
> The adults unlock the [Yondr] pouches with special magnets as pupils leave for the day.
> Unsurprisingly, pupils have hacked the system. (“What do you expect?” Eva says. “We’re middle-schoolers.”) The girls recite a list of workarounds. Those magnets have become hot commodities, and a few have gone missing. Pupils have been seen banging pouches open in the toilets. Other pupils have faulty cases that no longer lock but have kept that information to themselves. The girls say that since phones have become a forbidden fruit, pupils only crave them more.
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I wish them luck on the implementation... I think there have a steep challenge ahead of them. One thing my boys told me is that they have QR codes for homework/assignments/worksheets that everyone used phones to scan and do work on there with GSuite - and the school provided laptops won't be able to do this. The that everyone in K-8 everyone has can do QRs okay though.