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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no current "cell-phone reality" because APS hasn't even had their first day at school.

But I will tell you what will happen. Admin/teachers will do their best to make sure kids don't have their phones and then give up because those kids have parents who spoil them and think they are not the problem when the absolutely are.

And APE parents will continue to harp on banning cellphones entirely until the first lockdown when they will complain that nobody had the phones to call mom and dad.

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The APEs also may change their tune when their kids hit high school and they realize how different it is. [/quote]

My oldest is in 8th grade and I support a full bell-to-bell cell phone ban. I am unclear on why I would want that changed when my kid was in high school. If anything when the academic stakes are higher, I think I will feel it is even more important for phones to be banned. And the last thing I want during a school shooting is some kids phone ringing and telling the shooter where everyone is -- the risk of that (while very small) is not zero and thus not worth any potential benefit of being able to text my kid. My kids middle school had a lockdown and my kid did not have a phone at the time and if anything being phoneless made it easier -- we did not have to worry about going back to the school later to get his phone and the teachers made phones available to the kids to call home. It was really NBD that kids did not have their phones. [/quote]

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