[OP]
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"I guess I would have to take the time to research, read, and understand how this all came about and why. But that would require me to care so...."
God bless her!
I've saved this on my desk top so I just have to copy and paste it.
My life has become so much easier now,,,I owe her a lot!!
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
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Bazinga! Excellent.
It's called golf because all the other 4-letter words were taken
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What is this thing social media.
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It's not a good thing. Daughter is a teacher and says it's ruining things in class room and it's making it very difficult to teach. It is a total distraction from the real world with increasingly disasterous results. It has been designed to be addictive. Just my two cents worth.
Life's too short to use old sandpaper.
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One of my sisters in law is a high school administrator. Their school has blocked all cell phone access in the building. Emergency calls must be routed through the school's phone number. This is the only way I can see of preventing social media distractions.
Dave Anderson
Chester, NH
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That’s a great idea Dave. That should be instituted nationwide.
[OP]
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One local school system uses cell phone alerts to inform students when a fire alarm is the real thing and not a fake.
I guess the newest fad going around in schools is turning in a false fire alarm/pulling the fire alarm.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
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A announcement over the PA system would be sufficient.Originally Posted by Rich Engelhardt
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Wait ... isn’t SMC considered social media ?!? Or not?
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I know why, but I guess I would have to take the time to research, read, and understand how this all came about.
JKJ
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Cell Phone blockers are not legal in the USA. i believe Canada allows them.
Bill D
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It's not legal to block cell phones no matter how noble the cause, but that school is not the only place doing it, & as long as they don't get caught it can continue. Not that I would report anyone for doing it, but I look at reporting people as Nazi/Communist behavior, with a few exceptions like drunk drivers.
It is. I bad mouth social media while being completely aware that I participate in a narrow-focus version of it almost daily.
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
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Naah! Most of us are anti-social. Some are actively surly. Present company excepted, of course.
Fair winds and following seas,
Jim Waldron
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And some would see not reporting as gang/mob/mafia behavior, wonder which is worse?
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