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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand APE hate, but they're right about phones. We're messing with our kids' brains. They should be banned from schools. Read some of the recent scientific studies on this.[/quote] Ditto! This is making me like APE. The anti-APE-anti-cell-phoners are likely parents who just couldn't effectively manage their kids phone/digital device use and now justify it as impractical/impossible/unrealistic/or even a necessity. I don't care about cell phones per se; but I do care about cell phones in school and they should absolutely be banned during the school day. [/quote] No, we are parents who CAN manage our kids' cell phone use, and understand that it's better to teach kids how to use them responsibly than to ban them altogether. [/quote] You sound like parents who use this excuse to serve alcohol to 15yr olds. The science doesn’t agree with you on the benefits of giving your elementary and middle schoolers access to social media. [/quote] Banning them in school is not banning them entirely. And if a parent chooses to not allow their kid to have anything more than a flip phone, that's their choice and nothing wrong with it. It's their way of teaching their kids responsible phone use (ie, not using them at inappropriate times or in inappropriate places such as school.) Part of teaching kids to use cell phones responsibly is to teach them not to use them at all when they are in classes, in meetings, or socializing in groups in person. Of course, I'm sure none of these parents' kids are doing any of that. [/quote] so if a kid's APS laptop stops working and the school takes 2 weeks to repair it, you want to prevent the kid from using their phone to access their work? [/quote] No, I want APS to not rely on digital devices for instruction and assignments. Since that's not going to happen, APS needs to be able to provide the devices necessary to do the work and teachers should not be requiring students to have a phone to do anything school-related, including digital calculators. Believe it or not, not every high school student has a cell phone with access to the internet. And believe it or not, sometimes high school students lose their cell phone privileges when parents take them away due to behavior or, ironically, poor academic performance. If APS requires students to have a phone, they should provide one. If they require a device to access work, they need to provide one.[/quote]
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