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[quote=Anonymous]When I was younger and in school we didn't have cell phones and we survived. But we also had pay phones which no longer exist. At my school, if I missed the school bus home (only once a day so if I was running late I was screwed), I stood in the long pay phone line (there was only one!) to call my mom for a ride. I couldn't walk because I grew up in a rural area and rarely could I get a ride with someone else because everyone lived in completely different directions. We weren't allowed to use the phones in the office and I imagine that's the policy at Deal just due to the sheer amount of students. While my kid can walk home from Deal pretty easily, I can understand why other parents may worry. We don't know what dismissal will look like yet with the pouches...it may be no big deal and the worry is for nothing. Or it may cause bottlenecks where kids have to choose between making the bus and unlocking a phone. People all have their own valid worries about random things and I don't understand throwing the whole "we didn't have phones and we survived" mentality out there to shame some who are just nervous because we don't know what something will look like. And yes kids will figure it out just like us old folks did, but again there's no need to dismiss others' feelings. [/quote]

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