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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a teacher so I'll be the first to admit that if I was, I may care but as a parent I don't care if my kid is on a call phone or not. Is my kid doing in well in school? Yes? Great. That is my concern. My kid is in AP Classes and honors classes and has a 4.0 unweighted GPA. If he wants to use a cell phone sometimes and the teacher is not complaining about him, so be it. If I heard from the teacher that it was a problem, I would step in. [/quote]

Yeah of course you don’t care. You’re not sitting in a room of zombie kids who are scrolling endlessly and not conversing, engaging, living their life. I can’t tell you how BLEAK it feels to look into a classroom and see that. I took my students on a field trip this year (10th grade)- the bus rides were silent. The kids were on their phones. Halfway through the field trip most of them just found a bench and sat down to scroll rather than actually explore. You think it’s not a big deal when it’s your one kid but it’s the entire cohort and society he’s growing up in that is like this. It’s not ok. [/quote]

My oldest is so fed up with peers who cannot communicate verbally. He has a cell phone but he is desperate for people to talk IRL not text. And he is annoyed by teachers who are hamstrung or have given up on his peers cell phone use. Many times in HS PE they sit and do nothing, so out come the phones. It sucks. [/quote]

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