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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally am good with banning all screens at school and at home until HS. Clutch your pearls - trust me this is actually better and doable.

My kids don't have devices and they are fine and social. When they get access to our devices they are fine too. No devices in bedrooms; and hours and hours of disengaging from reality.

But chrome books is 100% different than kids with phones.

1. [b]School issued devices operate with the school wifi so guess what you can't access PORN; violent videos etc[/b]
2. Your darling kids with their phones are looking at porn. They do it on the bus; they do it in class; they show other kids.

No no my child is using the phone to watch Roblox, and cat videos and texts with their friends. No they are watching violent porn.

You must mean the poor east of the park; no your kid; west of the park with a two car family HHI family.

You give them a data plan, you put no controls on the phone and they do what kids do.

BTW saw the saddest thing; Mommy lugging DS' backpack to the car so he could sit in the front seat with his device after school. He couldn't be bothered to carry his own backpack, he had to get to his drug super quick. Pathetic.

But but I need the devices so I can work, do calls etc. 1. You don't. 2. You have trained your kid to be addicted to devices and you need to get them and you rehab.

Child survived for centuries without devices. They were bored; they figured out how to fix their boredom without their parents micromanaging them.[/quote]

You overestimate the DCPS internet filters and underestimate kids’ ability to work around them.[/quote]

+1. My kid at DCI reports some kids watching some wild stuff on school issued Chromebooks. [/quote]

IMO Pandora’s box has already been opened and there is no way to totally stop kids from doing things on technology (per your Chromebook example)
But there’s so much research and more every year about how literally addictive cell phones are and the damage it is doing to their social skills and emotional well-being, as well as being used for cameras to record fights or bully people. By getting rid of phones during the school day, especially during breaks and lunch we are forcing kids to actually talk to each other like they used to.
Also, I know it is not the same thing, but when we were kids, people were writing notes and doing things they weren’t supposed to use, preventing them from paying attention in class, so that is always going to happen.. but in my opinion, getting rid of cell phones is a no brainer. As somebody said in a different thread, we also need to get the teachers off their phones, and I am sure most of us could use some sort of forced detox as well.[/quote]

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