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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]

Which is also why telling parents to just not give their own kid a phone does NOT solve the issue here. [/quote]

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