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Well, it looks like school is in, and I'm just kind of curious because it doesn't seem like a lot of districts and schools themselves are in alignment when it comes to what they're going to do with smart devices. I don't know why nobody can really agree on this. Are we going to take them away? We're going to give them to the kids for a little bit. It seems like in Broward schools, at least in the high schools, you're going to have to put your smart devices up, but then you get them for lunch. How that even works and you coordinate that? I don't know. Like, how do you make sure that the kids return it? I would just think that pretty much every kid is going to have their smart device. I've got a kid that's a junior in high school. I would not trust him to have his device put away. And I would bet you anything.

I would see that device later on in the day.

You're not supposed to have that.

Be like, oh, man, I forgot.

Yeah, you did.

Well, I never thought the day would come when I could speak from this perspective.

But as a mother who was on the phone with her child during an active shooter situation when her daughter was in school.

At Florida State.

At Florida State University last year when there was an active shooter, just, I don't know,

half a football field away from her where she was.

I can tell you I'm pretty happy she had her phone with her so she could speak to me

and I could tell her to flip the desk over and hide behind it and pray.

But isn't that something that, I mean, when you talk about schools themselves,

I think they unfortunately have to do the active shooter drills now and they have it

with the kids.

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