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Escambia Schools Plan To ‘Unplug’ Next Friday
February 28, 2025
Escambia County Public Schools will observe ‘National Day of Unplugging’ across all campuses on next Friday, March 7.
In order to draw attention to the serious mental and social harm addiction to technology causes for our youth in the United States, ECPS will take a day to ‘unplug’ and focus on intentional personal interaction. Schools are encouraged to promote activities which bring students together, without technology.
“It’s a small step, but an important one,” said ECPS Superintendent of Schools Keith Leonard. “Actually, this idea came from our Student Advisory Council, who collectively saw reliance on technology as a real problem at their schools. We are proud they recognized this and wanted to do something about it.”
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11 Responses to “Escambia Schools Plan To ‘Unplug’ Next Friday”
I’d really like to see the Chromebooks disappear and have the teachers actually “teach” again.
“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.
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.
Why isn’t every day Unplug Day?
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.
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.
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.
Allot of school systems across the country has banned cell phones in classrooms. GREAT IDEA.
ALLOW a few appointed to carry for 911 call
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.
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.
This is a double edged sword. There’s no doubt that tech has been abused in the school system, but there has also been more than a couple of questionable, or even illegal, activities of both students and faculty caught on camera.
Like Pandora’s box, this is going to be a tough one to solve.