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Speaker 1: So teens are on their phones nearly a third of

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Speaker 1: the school day, social media games endless scrolling. Everybody's pointing

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Speaker 1: their fingers at the schools and the students. Here's the reality.

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Speaker 1: This starts at home. Parents set the tone right. Kids

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Speaker 1: are allowed to stay glued to their devices all the time.

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Speaker 1: There's no enforcement. No one teaches them self discipline. Don't

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Speaker 1: be surprised when they're checking TikTok between math problems. Schools

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Speaker 1: can't parent for you. They can't force focus and instill

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Speaker 1: values that you don't teach at home. There was a

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Speaker 1: new study that came out that said teens are using

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Speaker 1: their smartphones constantly during school hours, not just on lunch breaks,

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Speaker 1: not just between classes. They're checking their phones hourly throughout

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Speaker 1: the day. About one third of the school day is

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Speaker 1: spent on their phones, roughly two hours during instructional time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is I'm sorry, I maybe a little

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Speaker 2: old school with this thought in this opinion. But rules

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Speaker 2: get to set the rules. That's the way it works.

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Speaker 2: We don't let kids tell us how to run things.

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Speaker 2: And I get it if I was fifteen years old,

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Speaker 2: and you know, a sophomore in high school again and

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Yeah, of course I'd want to have

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Speaker 2: my phone with me, And of course, as a fifteen

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Speaker 2: year old, i'd be like, no, it's fine, it's cool.

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Speaker 2: I can have my phone with me all day. You know,

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Speaker 2: too bad. You don't get to set the rules when

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Speaker 2: you're fifteen years old. The adults get to set the rules.

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Speaker 2: So of course, if schools feel like the phones are distracting, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: Now I think where you will get a lot of

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Speaker 2: pushback from parents is banning them entirely, because as a parent,

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Speaker 2: I know that we always felt better that if there

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Speaker 2: was an emergency, anything up to you know, a threat

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Speaker 2: of terrorism or an active shooter in the school, all

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Speaker 2: the way down to something simple, hey my car won't

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Speaker 2: start after school. I want you know, most parents want

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Speaker 2: their kids to be able to communicate when there is

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Speaker 2: a problem. So I think that as long as the

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Speaker 2: laws and the regulations don't go to and outright ban entirely,

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Speaker 2: I think that this just is is just a ton

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Speaker 2: of common sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this goes back to usage, right. It's

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Speaker 1: the bottom line, the parent, the phones aren't ruining the kids.

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Speaker 1: It's the bad habits and the lack of the guidance

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Speaker 1: and the absent accountability, and parents who want their kids

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Speaker 1: to succeed need to take the lead on this. They

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Speaker 1: need to set the boundaries and model the behavior they

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Speaker 1: want to see. You know, kids they repeat what they

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Speaker 1: see their parents do. And if your child is trying

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Speaker 1: to having a conversation with you and you're just glued

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Speaker 1: to your phone not paying attention, what kind of signal

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Speaker 1: is that sending to your kid? So you've got a

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Speaker 1: lead by example with this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that you know, there was this

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Speaker 2: bill in the recent term of the General Assembly to

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Speaker 2: pass restrictions on this, and I think again it's what

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Speaker 2: I laid out here. That's not banning it entirely, but

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Speaker 2: it is saying, hey, you got to put your phone

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Speaker 2: away during school hours. And that passed the House and Senate,

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Speaker 2: and Mike Ron signed it into law actually just a

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Speaker 2: couple of days ago. Late last week he signed it

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Speaker 2: into law. So that'll be going into effect likely this summer.

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Speaker 2: With all the rest of the new laws that are

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Speaker 2: written usually going to effect