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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a real-life HS student (not a 3rd grader) at a school where phones are officially banned. Kids still use them sparingly and the teachers generally overlook it.

I got a quick text this morning (between classes) saying that an after-school activity is cancelled, which is helpful for me to receive now so I can rearrange my schedule to pick the kid up several hours earlier.

If kid told me this at 2:30 it'd be a huge PITA.

Are the nasty PPs really so unimaginative that they can't think of [i]any[/] scenarios when phones would be helpful? GMAFB. 
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Look, I don’t disagree with you that phones HELP ME as the parent. Your example is just that.   But the question you don’t seem willing to grapple with is how the net benefit of that phone, which let’s be honest is mostly for you, outweighs the overwhelming demonstrable harm to your child of the use of the phone.  It’s true that your child’s 3 second text to you probably isn’t going to cause depression but the reality is there is no way to enforce a 3 second text to parent rule and so we as an intelligent adult support system have to listen to the teacher and the scientists who are telling us that kids access to phones during the school day is harming their educational experience.   So lose the sad face about having to leave work early.  I mean kids in years past figured it out, so will yours.  It might even be good for them.  [/quote]

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