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Should Phones Be Banned In Wake County Schools · The Erica Show

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  Do you know five is the air because show so many people blowing us up
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  about this where there's a group of parents and officials that want to ban cell
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  phones in the classroom. We're at school in Wait County as a mom.
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  My kids are not old enough to have cell phones yet. But my son
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  has a gizmo. But how do you fil it's a gizmo. It's like
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  this little watch you pay ten dollars a month for and he can make emergency
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  calls. But we can disable it during school hours, but we can also
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  check out them where he has he is at all Timescha Okay, basically we
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  can stalk them with that. I just feel like as long as the phones
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  aren't out in class, like are they trying to ban it from being able
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  to bring it to school? They just know phones during class, And I
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  think right now it's like up to the school to make individual decisions, and
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  that's tough because teachers already have their hands full, and so they're trying to
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  make it a widespread Wait County thing. I mean, I I mean I
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  came up through middle and high school having a cell phone and you just couldn't
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  have it out. Yeah, I had a flip phone well, me too,
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  had I had? I did in middle school? Yeah, and then
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  in high school? Well school, you boogie. I have like the knockoff
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  smartphone before. I had n iPhone when I was in high school, and
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  you just couldn't have it out in class. I don't know why, Like,
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  why would you need your phone out in class? Well, because kids
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  are doing other things, and I get right, I shouldn't be. But
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  as a mama, like I want to be able to reach my babies at
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  any time or to make sure they're okay. No, because no, how
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  we survived so many years without kids having cell phones in school. The old
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  timer over there, I'm to say, why do you need to reach your
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  kid when they're in Algebraill? What snow barefoot? What do you need to
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  say to your kids when they're in algebra? What time you want to pick
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  you up today? Or whatever it might be? Did you eat your lunch?
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  I just want it for emergency purposes, honestly, just so I can
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  reach them. I don't want this is hard to let them fly. So
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  this isn't even like a student thing. This is a parent thing, Like
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  I need to be able to reach my kid. That's a distraction. It's
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  a distraction for the teachers. I say, no phones in class is a
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  good thing. This is the one without kids nine one nine ain't six one
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  o five one? How do you feel about this? Do you want to
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  five? It's the air because show taking your opinions on Wake County possibly banning
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  cell phones in the classroom are at school in general. A lot of parents
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  are divided on it. Nine one nine eight six oh one oh five to
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  one, Melissa, what do you think it is like a catch twenty two?
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  It's like it's I think the children should have the phones in the case
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  of an emergency. But then again, the phones can be a distraction exactly,
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  a distraction for the other kids and for the teacher. You had one
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  in middle school, you said, but not out in class you could not.
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  Teachers did not want to see those phones, or they took them,
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  and I understand. I appreciate that, but I still want my kid to
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  have access to it in case they need to go. Backs to the Erica
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  Show on G one oh five, big debate right now, parents and other
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  leaders coming together. They want to ban cell phones in schools, among Wake
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  County schools because they say it's a distraction for kids. Not only in the
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  classroom, but also because they're not being social with other students. They are
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  on social media on their phones instead of interacting with other people. Nine nine
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  eight six oh one oh five to one. Jessica, what do you think
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  of them trying to ban the phones in schools? I love it. I
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  love it. I don't think our kids need any diction at all. We
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  didn't have phones when we were in school, and I just I don't know.
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  Anything happen to do with the phone is just stressing my daughter out so
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  much. I just can't so I agree. Now. I did have a
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  phone in middle in high school, but again it could not be out during
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  class. And another reason why they want a ban, and this is school
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  wide, is because they want kids to be more social with their other students
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  in the school instead of being on social media during lunch and things like that.
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  So they say school wide ban, and I don't know if I'm done
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  for that.