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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The number of kids taking photos in the bathroom, crashing into each other because their heads are down texting, or arranging to meet up in the hallways during class has dropped significantly due to no phones in hallways this year.

--HS teacher[/quote]

As a high school teacher, do you think the kids should have access to them during lunch? 
It seems to me a lot of damage could be done in that 30 minutes. Social skills and mental health would improve if they did not have access to them for the full seven hours.[/quote]

Worry about your own kid.  I'm a teacher and I see two kinds of kids at the school - those sitting with friends and having a great time, even with phones, and those sitting by themselves, who are grateful just to have someone to do besides feel awkward and alone.  And no, not having a phone wouldn't help.  Ask anyone from the 80s.  [/quote]

+1, there will always be kids with no friends to talk with at lunch.[/quote]

+1 and for them, the phone may be making them feel less uncomfortable. They can bury their noses in it.[/quote]

Which is such a healthy coping mechanism to prepare them for being in the world  :roll: [/quote]
In the 90s they’d be burying their nose in a book. Same difference, in this limited example. Just like people eating out alone for lunch- they used to read the paper or a novel and now they read their phones. [/quote]

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