Is This School's Cell Phone Policy Crossing The Line?
The Bert Show
The Bert Show
4.1 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Get it the virtue. |
| 0:01.7 | All right, so there is a school in the United States of America that has gone viral today |
| 0:08.5 | because their cell phone policy has a lot of moms upset about it, but there are also |
| 0:14.5 | others that are like, you know what? |
| 0:17.0 | Maybe it's not such an awful idea. |
| 0:18.8 | Cassie and I came across the same viral tweet on Twitter and it all started with a mom |
| 0:25.7 | from a school who was not happy with the school's new phone policy. |
| 0:30.6 | So Dr. Rachel French tweeted, my daughter's school released a new cell phone policy. |
| 0:36.8 | That includes school officials can read any text messages between students, even if the |
| 0:43.3 | text occurred outside of school hours. |
| 0:46.8 | In quote, and then she put at the end of her tweet, nobody nope, nope. |
| 0:51.2 | And then she followed up responding to her own tweet saying, meet a my daughter. |
| 0:55.6 | Your phone is my personal property. |
| 0:57.6 | If someone asked to read your text, you tell them to call me and ask. |
| 1:03.1 | And the reactions were plentiful. |
| 1:06.2 | Some supporting her and others saying the school has a right. |
| 1:10.1 | And Cassie and I both thought it would be a good debate for the show. |
| 1:13.5 | So if if you're a mom or your dad right now, are you totally cool with the with the school |
| 1:19.0 | just saying, look, at any point, I can take your kid's phone and I can read what's going |
| 1:24.0 | on on their text messages. |
| 1:27.2 | And then I will get back to you, the parent, if I see anything that is like a red flag, |
| 1:32.3 | one eight five five bird show. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Bert Show, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Bert Show and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

