So how safe are all our school-goers with cell phones?
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How many here have daily interactions with a student's curriculum?
I do as I help homeschool the boys. Tablets and cellphones have been and are an absolute boon to their academic advancement. The boys are tech savvy. It is the world they live in and I try to facilitate and foster that as best I can
I wish I had those information portals when I went to school.
I do as I help homeschool the boys. Tablets and cellphones have been and are an absolute boon to their academic advancement. The boys are tech savvy. It is the world they live in and I try to facilitate and foster that as best I can
I wish I had those information portals when I went to school.
ameridaddy
US Veteran
With the near 100% use of backpacks by school kids, I'm more worried about a wacko leaving a backpack with a bomb in a mall food court after school. In our nearest mall, there must be ~200 high schoolers with the ubiquitous rucks scattered all over the place. It wouldn't be too hard to shrug the backpack off, leave it on a chair, go to the pizza line and wander off around a corner from there.
I'm grateful and frankly surprised we haven't had a tragedy of that nature before this.
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YeshuaIsa53
SWCA Member
We can't seem to get refills for prescriptions without a week of standby, thinking it is because we won't put all our info on their portal. This same place has been hacked and forced to pay millions to get their info back.
We have difficulties with paying bills without using their portals. However, I still know how to divide and multiply on paper, if not in my head. Computers are running our vehicles. I'd rather have a younger girl be my friend than AI, and not driving on auto-pilot. Technology has built jobs, and taken them away.
Words have always been taught to me as tools. Some people are typing words and posting pictures that can ruin another person's desire to live.
Matches are great, if used properly. So is gasoline. Such it is with phones and such. You all can use your own definitions of "properly". There is a time for everything good under the sun. Texting should not be done in classrooms, but it is. If you see me pulled over the side of a road, I'm probably texting or deleting a text.
We saw bunches of LEOs with people pulled over today. First thing you think is a sting operation. Next, maybe they are trying to slow people down. MAYBE they were pulling people over holding phones?
I'd like to know our next generations know how to find something on their own and think for themselves, not saying many don't. Stop saying bad things about others, but is this kids or convenience. There are many dangers out there with technology we are not discussing. Saw a woman yesterday walking to her car with books, papers, and pencil and I almost wanted to stop and talk with her. Should have stopped anyway. Curiosity.
We have difficulties with paying bills without using their portals. However, I still know how to divide and multiply on paper, if not in my head. Computers are running our vehicles. I'd rather have a younger girl be my friend than AI, and not driving on auto-pilot. Technology has built jobs, and taken them away.
Words have always been taught to me as tools. Some people are typing words and posting pictures that can ruin another person's desire to live.
Matches are great, if used properly. So is gasoline. Such it is with phones and such. You all can use your own definitions of "properly". There is a time for everything good under the sun. Texting should not be done in classrooms, but it is. If you see me pulled over the side of a road, I'm probably texting or deleting a text.
We saw bunches of LEOs with people pulled over today. First thing you think is a sting operation. Next, maybe they are trying to slow people down. MAYBE they were pulling people over holding phones?
I'd like to know our next generations know how to find something on their own and think for themselves, not saying many don't. Stop saying bad things about others, but is this kids or convenience. There are many dangers out there with technology we are not discussing. Saw a woman yesterday walking to her car with books, papers, and pencil and I almost wanted to stop and talk with her. Should have stopped anyway. Curiosity.
coltle6920
Member
Be honest, Rusty. The only difference would've been the size of your collection of pictures.
I've seen a couple of readerboards outside at least two public schools in my area recently with anti-cellphone messages.
One said
"This is a cell-free zone"
and the other said
"No cellphones allowed on campus"
I'm OK with the idea of no cell phones being allowed in public schools.
The negatives of kids using cell phones at school FAR outweigh any positive benefits IMO.
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Mr. Vito
Member
We now know that the Israelis did not come up with some way to make normal pagers explode. The pagers involved were manufactured with a small amount of hidden explosive material and then sold to a vendor who in turn sold them to Hezbollah. Apparently the way the Semtex was put into the pager it was not found even when so-called experts at Hezbollah examined the pagers before accepting them (and paying for them!). There is absolutely no reason to worry that somehow your child's cell phone will be remotely detonated by anyone. Worry about what cell phone technology has done to children more generally.
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YeshuaIsa53
SWCA Member
People can track you wherever you go with cellphones. They can copy everything you have written on the internet, cellphones: heck, everything you have even said in some situations. They can know where you have been, how long you have stayed, and these are people from other countries and this one you do not even know. I need to go check the tides and weather.
