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Within the Deseret Information article “Right here’s why Gov. Spencer Cox desires Utah lecture rooms to be cellphone free,” Cox claimed to a “crowd of oldsters, lecturers and group leaders gathered at Bonneville Junior Excessive Faculty in Holladay” that social media is “negatively impacting the psychological well being, social connection and emotional well-being of Utah teenagers.”
Moreover, Cox claimed that a first answer is “getting cellphones out of lecture rooms.”
This proposal is probably the most harmful answer that Cox may supply. Has he already forgotten about Uvalde: Youngsters and lecturers calling from the school rooms when a shooter entered and killed many kids and two lecturers?
Police want inside data throughout a college capturing. Eradicating cellphones will stop the police from gathering intelligence, i.e., “the place is the shooter now,” at a crucial second when mass college capturing occasions happen.
Did the governor verify together with his Division of Public Security earlier than issuing this harmful advice? I hope that Jess Anderson, DPS commissioner, will disagree with Cox’s advice.
Fairly than take away cellphones from lecture rooms, a greater answer is for faculties to develop classroom guidelines concerning cellphone use.
Gov. Cox, please rethink your harmful proposal to take away cellphones from the classroom.
Thomas Murray
St. George