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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps parents shouldn't buy phones for their kids? If you/we didn't have them growing up and our parents found us just fine, perhaps parents nowadays should take the lead and not purchase smartphones for their children. Why have the schools do your parenting for you? [/quote]
Kids actually need phones (or at least, what they use them for would be much more difficult with just a laptop, or they’d have to rely on friends’ phones) at SSSAS US. They record experiments in physics labs, record their voices for rep checks in choir, have to scan math assignments, are required to photograph artworks to turn them in for grading in visual arts, are required to use an app to track and certify service hours. They can’t use their phones in the classroom unless instructed to by the teacher (in fact they have to leave them in phone holders at the back of the classroom), but when they need them, they need them. All of that is probably doable through a laptop or just borrowing a phone but would be way clunkier. [/quote]

This sounds terrible. Why would the school do this? Does the school not read the research and see how it is harming its own students? Every other school is moving in the other direction.[/quote]

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