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No Cell Phones · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think of the no cell phones in school policy? Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's ask an American mama's Alma Mama.
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  Speaker 2: She said.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoining us now are American mama's tern Edville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 1: This is going on a lot of states, in Texas, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: New York. I don't know all of them, but this
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  Speaker 1: is going on in a lot of different states where
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  Speaker 1: schools are basically outlawing cell phones for students. Yet you
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  Speaker 1: have to put them into a covey at the check
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  Speaker 1: in of the school. They can't be just in your backpack,
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  Speaker 1: they can't be in class that you can't have them
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  Speaker 1: during the day. What do y'all think of this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's funny. They started this in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: This is a new thing in Texas. But I saw
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  Speaker 3: a man on TikTok. He's an educator in Texas, and
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  Speaker 3: he said he is already just in the one week
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  Speaker 3: that they've been in school, has seen such a drastic
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  Speaker 3: change in students. Really, he said, one thing is they're
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  Speaker 3: taking notes, okay, And he said, and when they have breaks,
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  Speaker 3: they're talking to each other because that was not something
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  Speaker 3: that we ever saw. And he said, it feels like
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of old school. And I thought, wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: that be so funny if notes are started again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: remember when you'd make that your note and you may.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 3: So I do think that this is like, maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: reconnecting people. I don't know what the real reason. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of cheating.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, you're talking about notes, not taking notes
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  Speaker 1: from what the teacher is talking about that, but notes
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  Speaker 1: to each other.
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  Speaker 3: Right, No, I'm taking notes, okay, taking notes that I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: we may see a resurgence of writing notes to each other,
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  Speaker 3: making a football to each other.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that he said was they're actually coming up
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  Speaker 2: and asking him questions about what he on their notes.
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  Speaker 2: They're coming up, he said, He said, I mean, is
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  Speaker 2: it this easy? Has it been this easy all along?
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  Speaker 2: All we had to do was take the phones out
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  Speaker 2: of their hands in the classroom and.
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  Speaker 1: We could get our kids back.
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  Speaker 2: We get our kids back exactly. And I think also
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  Speaker 2: there's a little element of bullying that happens through cyber
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  Speaker 2: bullying during school hours that has really hurt hindered so
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  Speaker 2: many especially girls.
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  Speaker 1: You know, well, think about how hard it was for
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  Speaker 1: teachers even to catch you passing a note, right, how
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  Speaker 1: much easier is it for you to bully someone on
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  Speaker 1: text or on social media? Yes, yes, when when it
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  Speaker 1: was hard to catch a physical note being passed, and
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  Speaker 1: that now that now the note's being done over the
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  Speaker 1: internet and you can't even see.
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  Speaker 2: And just think about this. There's been a lot of
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  Speaker 2: cheating at every level. You know, when you've got your phone,
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  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of ways that they can cheat.
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  Speaker 2: And so the children and the young adults in college,
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  Speaker 2: they don't learn what they're supposed to learn to go
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  Speaker 2: to the to go into the workforce. Now, if you
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  Speaker 2: have this inlay, and hats off to Texas, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just they I love that they lead in this way.
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  Speaker 2: They are the ones that are going to show us
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  Speaker 2: these kids will be better prepared for college because they'll
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  Speaker 2: have to learn. You have nothing else to do but
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  Speaker 2: listen to your teacher talk. You know, maybe they have
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  Speaker 2: these group you know, group think tanks that we used
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  Speaker 2: to have. You know, the teachers say, y'all get together,
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  Speaker 2: and y'all it's called critical thinking. Again, you're teaching children
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  Speaker 2: how to be critical thinkers in this world because that
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  Speaker 2: kind of was lost you had your phone. I do
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  Speaker 2: it now. I you know, a lot of my critical
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  Speaker 2: thinking skills are probably gone because instead of trying to
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  Speaker 2: think about I'll just google what does this mean? Well?
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  Speaker 2: What do you you know? What is this? What are
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  Speaker 2: they trying to say here?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Instead of be thinking from myself.
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  Speaker 3: I've also seen that chat GPT has changed. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if y'all seen that. They've kind of updated it.
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  Speaker 3: So now a lot of kids were using that to
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  Speaker 3: write notes, to write papers. Well, now they have a
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  Speaker 3: for teachers to you'll use. It's a tool that shows
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  Speaker 3: you what part of it was taken out, the percentage
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  Speaker 3: of it that was restructured, reworded, so that now they
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  Speaker 3: can't get away as easily.
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  Speaker 1: So they're actually using chat chibt to help find kids
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  Speaker 1: that are.
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  Speaker 3: Using CHATCHI exactly exactly interesting. You know you said that
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  Speaker 3: about critical thinking. I'm wondering if a lot of this
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  Speaker 3: has to do with our test scores in our country
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  Speaker 3: that we're falling below, and maybe maybe there's this concerted
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  Speaker 3: effort to help us rise in the ranks when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to our education, because I think we're dumbing down
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  Speaker 3: our kids. So we have been and maybe there's this
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  Speaker 3: new let's let's do something to change that.
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  Speaker 2: And having that that in the hallway, face to face
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  Speaker 2: talking to each other, the social awareness, social you know,
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  Speaker 2: to be able to have those social cues that I
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  Speaker 2: think has also been lost with the phones. You know
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  Speaker 2: that you didn't have to call the girl's house and
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  Speaker 2: talk to the father lass, Yeah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Like all of that's been kind of misplaced by easily texting.
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  Speaker 2: You can easily text anything because you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about the being embarrassed. So taking away the phones
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  Speaker 2: also allows you to reconnect as people. I remember summer
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  Speaker 2: when she was younger, she went to summer camp and
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  Speaker 2: she loved it because you could not bring your phones.
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  Speaker 2: She loved to have that element taken away from her
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  Speaker 2: because she was able to really engage with other people
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  Speaker 2: and other people weren't on their phones. Like you'll go
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  Speaker 2: to the restaurant now and you'll see everybody's on their phone.
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  Speaker 2: They're not saying I love this. I think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be really helpful to the students.
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  Speaker 1: Well, again, happened in Texas. It's also happening in Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: happening in New York State, It's happening in several states
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  Speaker 1: across the country. This is definitely a growing trend, and
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  Speaker 1: it looks state's supposed to be the laboratory of democracy.
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  Speaker 1: We've had some success in multiple states. Perhaps every state
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  Speaker 1: should be doing this.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: If you like to ask our American Mama's a question,
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burgs and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,