coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.

You know, the problem is probably 70, 80% of parents either don't have strong feelings

on this or are fine with it, but there's 15% or 20% of parents who really want to be

able to call their kid or text their kid.

And those are the parents who tend to be loudest.

So when you're contemplating this

as school boards, when you're dealing this as a principal, you tend to catch a lot of flack

from these folks, and the folks who go, yeah, that sounds sensible, tend not to speak up because it

doesn't have any direct impact on them. This is actually one of the reasons why tackling this

state level is so potentially

powerful because it then put school board, superintendent's principals in a position where they're

saying, look, this has been argued out. Your elected representatives have made a decision. We're simply

executing kind of state educational policy in a way that makes them less the bad guy in the equation. I'm . I'm .

I'm

. Welcome everyone once again to this special Cincinnati series we're doing at the Claremont Institute.

I'm Ryan Williams, your host, the president of the Claremont Institute, publisher of the Claremont Review Books and the American Mind.

I'm joined once again by Scott Yenner.

Scott and my joke is that, I mean, you're going to be on all of these except one, Scott.

So you're the ubiquitous state expert.

Scott's a senior director of state coalitions at our Center for the American

Way of Life in Washington, D.C. We're happy to welcome back Rick Hess. There's a senior fellow

and director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute. And then we're very

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