Schools new cell phone policy Are They Right or Wrong?
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🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:56.9 | is the virtue. |
| 0:57.9 | And so there is a school in the United States of America that has gone viral today because |
| 1:06.3 | their cell phone policy has a lot of moms upset about it, but there are also others that |
| 1:12.0 | are like, you know what? Maybe it's not such an awful idea. |
| 1:15.7 | Cassie and I came across the same viral tweet on Twitter and it all started with a mom |
| 1:22.5 | from a school who was not happy with the school's new phone policy. So Dr. Rachel French tweeted, |
| 1:30.0 | my daughter's school released a new cell phone policy that includes, school officials |
| 1:35.9 | can read any text messages between students even if the text occurred outside of school |
| 1:42.2 | hours. End quote. And then she put at the end of her tweet, nobody nope, nope. And then |
| 1:48.3 | she followed up responding to her own tweet saying, meet my daughter, your phone is my |
| 1:52.9 | personal property. If someone asked to read your text, you tell them to call me and ask. |
| 1:59.9 | And the reactions were plentiful, some supporting her and others saying the school has a right. |
| 2:06.9 | And Cassie and I both thought it would be a good debate for the show. |
| 2:10.3 | So if if you're a mom or your dad right now, are you totally cool with the school just |
| 2:16.1 | saying, look, at any point, I can take your kid's phone and I can read what's going on |
| 2:21.7 | on their text messages. And then I will get back to you, the parent, if I see anything |
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