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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t disagree.  Phones and social media have been a disaster for this generation of kids. Phones are addictive and destructive, despite all the useful applications. They certainly don’t belong in schools.  But I think we have to acknowledge some other truths here:  we have failed as parents.  it’s like we gave our kids crack, and we the parents are addicted also and we want the schools to do the hard work of taking the phones away from 9-3 , But who among us is willing to do the hard work and take the phones away from 3 til bedtime? Sure we can delude ourselves into thinking we’re setting good examples and teaching responsible usage because we don’t allow them at the dinner table. But really how many of our children are up scrolling at 1 AM when we think they’re asleep? How many of our kids are scrolling before even getting out of bed? While walking across the street and not paying attention to traffic?  How many of our kids are watching our own bad habits with our phones and just following suit.  I’m all in favor of schools taking away the phones from 9 to 3. but we have a much bigger problem that schools aren’t going to solve for us. . [/quote]

I'm OP.  I have a freshmen in college and a JR in HS.  We have always set iphone limits.  My husband is really good at enforcing.  I have some of the same issues as others---habit of mindlessly scrolling.

We look at their time usage (no longer the one in college--he's on his own now).

But-- the kids have always had to plug iphones, laptops, etc. in at the kitchen counter every single night before bed. They are off and lights out.  I am always shocked to see the time stamps of friend's messages--all hours of the night.

My younger son was using it a lot in the middle of the day.  We took it away when that happened--got it before and after school. We have told him there is no-to extremely limited use during the school day and we do check. His total phone usage is now about 1 hour or under.  You would be shocked if you looked at your kids' phone usage.  It is linked to depression and they are designed to be addictive and mess with adolescent brain development.

It takes a village and when the VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION has deemed iphones should be banned bell-to-bell, our private HS are failing us for not doing the same.  Period. End of story.[/quote]

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