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Sylvia Wright

Journalist

Aug 29, 2026

BrooksHOST
102:34
So it is, is that in place or
102:37
yes, the issue with, uh, this bell to bell, uh, phone ban throughout the school day is the implementation of it.
102:46
Um, it was implemented in the middle of the school year, right? And the principals like, there wasn't any clear guidelines.
102:55
And the reason why I'm saying this is I actually had conversations with administration and we had a conversation about how it wasn't really implemented properly.
103:04
It was like, just you guys do this with no clear guidelines.
103:08
And so that's why you had some schools where they had the kids put it in a pouch, or you had some schools where they said, turn it away, put it in your phones, or sorry, put it in your backpacks.
103:19
And so, I believe that there should be local control.

6 MINS LATER

108:59
for that.
BrooksHOST
46:05
What do, what do you, what do you say to those kind of people?
46:07
You know, that's a great question, and, uh, and it helped me just now with the perspective of this whole push of parental rights.
46:16
Mm-hmm.
46:17
Because that's what we're facing right now, this, the parents wanna be, wanna control everything that's happening within the schools.
46:24
Mm.
46:25
And so again, for me it's, it's about balance, uh, because I'm a parent, too, and a grandma, like I said.
46:32
And so I do believe, like, I should have a right to know what's happening in my kids' school, my grandkids' school.

38 MINS LATER

84:31
Yeah.

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