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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter's friend this morning sent her a text (we have access to all her text messages; she's in 8th grade and this is her first year with a phone so we wanted to have some oversight especially with texting and she's well aware of us tracking her messages) this morning of a pic of the class from an angle where she captured about 50% of the class.  She was probably pretending to take a selfie and instead took a pic of the class that was sitting behind her.  Every single student that was in the frame of that pic was on their cell phone. Every.single.one.  I have no idea what is going on in that class and why the teacher hasn't asked the kids to put their phones away, but whatever it is, it's just unacceptable.  I have half a mind to send that into the principal to let her know "this is what's going on in a classroom right now," but I can't do it because my daughter was one of the students captured in that pic on her phone.  Of course I'm going to chat with her about this when she gets home.  But to all the parents who are on here saying their kids know how to use their phones responsibly and they're "good kids" who follow the rules, please wise up!  Before today, I may have said the same thing about my daughter.  But the fact is, the majority of kids (middle and high school) are insanely addicted to these phones.  Most parents are oblivious to it because kids have found ways around screen time metrics.  This is just the hard reality.  It behooves us to try and help the schools follow the law and use our advocacy to make sure that school administrations hold to implementing this law for the betterment of the collective student body.  [/quote]

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