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Mike G's avatar

I'm a K-12 guy so read ~40 articles a week. This is best thing I've read in ages.

Step 3, the "Parent Ambassador," that's a killer app for the phone crisis. Allows school to unleash new out-of-school norms without the heavy-handedness of a school-created policy. If you've got enough Ambassador parents, threads the needle.

Step 5, the phone free experience of sleep-away camp, we need more of that built into a typical day, week, month, year. Yes.

I design new schools sometimes (private, charter), so this approach is a Must Have for my next one. I'd concede that it's harder to flip existing schools.

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Jim Collinsworth's avatar

Another critical factor, parents need to stop using their phones all the time in front of their kids. The use starts there.

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