August 15, 2025 • 5 mins
We got a question in for our American Mamas...
Dear Mamas, what do you think of the no cell phones in schools policy?
Dear Mamas, what do you think of the no cell phones in schools policy?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got a question for American mama's. Dear mamas, what
do you think of the no cell phones in schools policy? Well,
let's ask American mama's.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Mama, she said, and joining is now we're American Mama's
tern Edville and Kimberly Burlison.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is going on a lot of states, in Texas, Louisiana,
New York. I don't know all of them, but this
is going on in a lot of different states where
schools are basically outlawing cell phones for students. Yet you
have to put them into a covey at the check
in of the school. They can't be just in your backpack,
they can't be in class that you can't have him
(00:45):
during the day. What do y'all think of this?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well, I think it's funny. They started this in Texas.
This is a new thing in Texas. But I saw
a man on TikTok. He's an educator in Texas, and
he said he is already just in the one week
that they've been in school, he has seen such a
drastic change in students. Really, he said. One thing is
they're taking notes, okay, And he said, and when they
have breaks, they're talking to each other because that was
(01:11):
not something that we ever saw. And he said, it
feels like a little bit of old school. And I thought,
wouldn't that be so funny if notes are started again,
you know, remember when you'd make that your note and
you may.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I do think that this is like, maybe it's
reconnecting people. I don't know what the real reason. There's
a lot of cheating.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh oh oh, you're talking about notes, not taking notes
from what the teacher is talking about that, but notes
to each other.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right, No, I'm taking notes, Okay, taking notes that I'm saying,
we may see a resurgence of writing notes to each other,
making a football to each other.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
The thing that he said was they're actually coming up
and asking him questions about what he on their notes.
They're coming up, he said, He said, I mean, is
it this easy? Has it been this easy all along?
All we had to do was take the phones out
of their hands in the classroom and.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
We could get our kids back.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
We get our kids back exactly. And I think also
there's a little element of bullying that happens through cyber
bullying during school hours that has really hurt hindered so
many especially girls.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know, well, think about how hard it was for
teachers even to catch you passing a note, right, how
much easier is it for you to bully someone on
text or on social media? Yes, yes, when when it
was hard to catch a physical note being passed, and
that now that now the note's being done over the
internet and you can't even see.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And just think about this. There's been a lot of
cheating at every level. You know, when you've got your phone,
there's been a lot of ways that they can cheat.
And so the children and the young adults in college,
they don't learn what they're supposed to learn to go
to the to go into the workforce. Now, if you
have this place, and hats off to Texas, you know,
just they I love that they lead.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
In this way.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
They are the ones that are going to show us
these kids will be better prepared for college because they'll
have to learn. You have nothing else to do but
listen to your teacher talk. You know, maybe they have
these group you know, group think tanks that we used
to have. You know, the teachers said, y'all get together,
and y'all it's called critical thinking. Again, you're teaching children
how to be critical thinkers in this world because that
(03:28):
kind of was lost. You had your phone, I do
it now. I you know, a lot of my critical
thinking skills are probably gone because instead of trying to
think about I'll just google what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
What do you you know?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What is this?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
What are they trying to say here?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Instead of me thinking from myself.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I've also seen that chat ChiPT has changed. I don't
know if y'all seen that. They've kind of updated it.
So now a lot of kids were using that to
write notes, to write papers. Well, now they have a
for teachers to you'll use. It's a tool that shows
you what part of it was taken out, the percentage
of it that we restructured, reworded so that now they
(04:03):
can't get away as easily.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So they're actually using chat ChiPT to help find kids
that are using chat chi.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Exactly exactly interesting. You know you said that about critical thinking.
I'm wondering if a lot of this has to do
with our test scores in our country that we're falling below,
and maybe maybe there's this concerted effort to help us
rise in the ranks when it comes to our education,
because I think we're dumbing down our kids. So we
have been and maybe there's this new let's let's do
(04:32):
something to change that.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And having that that in the hallway, face to face
talking to each other, the social awareness, social you know,
to be able to have those social cues that I
think has also been lost with the phones. You know
that you didn't have to call the girl's house and
talk to the father lass, yeah, you know what I mean.
Like all of that's been kind of misplaced by easily texting.
(04:55):
You can easily text anything because you don't have to
worry about being embarrassed. So take away the phones also
allows you to reconnect as people. I remember summer when
she was younger, she went to summer camp and she
loved it because you could not bring your phones. She
loved to have that element taken away from her because
she was able to really engage with other people and
(05:16):
other people weren't on their phones. Like you'll go to
the restaurant now and you'll see everybody's on their phone.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I love this. I think it's going to be really
helpful to the students.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well again, happened in Texas. It's also happening in Louisiana.
Happening in New York State, It's happening in several states
across the country. This is definitely a growing trend, and
it looks state's supposed to be the laboratory of democracy.
We've had some success in multiple states. Perhaps every state
should be doing this. I agree. If you like to
ask our American Mama's a question, go to our website
American vowerrader dot com slash Mama's and click on the
(05:47):
ass the Mama's button. Terry, Netteville, Kimberly Burgs and thank
you so much. Thank you,
We got a question for American mama's. Dear mamas, what
do you think of the no cell phones in schools policy? Well,
let's ask American mama's.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Mama, she said, and joining is now we're American Mama's
tern Edville and Kimberly Burlison.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is going on a lot of states, in Texas, Louisiana,
New York. I don't know all of them, but this
is going on in a lot of different states where
schools are basically outlawing cell phones for students. Yet you
have to put them into a covey at the check
in of the school. They can't be just in your backpack,
they can't be in class that you can't have him
(00:45):
during the day. What do y'all think of this?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well, I think it's funny. They started this in Texas.
This is a new thing in Texas. But I saw
a man on TikTok. He's an educator in Texas, and
he said he is already just in the one week
that they've been in school, he has seen such a
drastic change in students. Really, he said. One thing is
they're taking notes, okay, And he said, and when they
have breaks, they're talking to each other because that was
(01:11):
not something that we ever saw. And he said, it
feels like a little bit of old school. And I thought,
wouldn't that be so funny if notes are started again,
you know, remember when you'd make that your note and
you may.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I do think that this is like, maybe it's
reconnecting people. I don't know what the real reason. There's
a lot of cheating.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh oh oh, you're talking about notes, not taking notes
from what the teacher is talking about that, but notes
to each other.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Right, No, I'm taking notes, Okay, taking notes that I'm saying,
we may see a resurgence of writing notes to each other,
making a football to each other.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
The thing that he said was they're actually coming up
and asking him questions about what he on their notes.
They're coming up, he said, He said, I mean, is
it this easy? Has it been this easy all along?
All we had to do was take the phones out
of their hands in the classroom and.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
We could get our kids back.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
We get our kids back exactly. And I think also
there's a little element of bullying that happens through cyber
bullying during school hours that has really hurt hindered so
many especially girls.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
You know, well, think about how hard it was for
teachers even to catch you passing a note, right, how
much easier is it for you to bully someone on
text or on social media? Yes, yes, when when it
was hard to catch a physical note being passed, and
that now that now the note's being done over the
internet and you can't even see.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And just think about this. There's been a lot of
cheating at every level. You know, when you've got your phone,
there's been a lot of ways that they can cheat.
And so the children and the young adults in college,
they don't learn what they're supposed to learn to go
to the to go into the workforce. Now, if you
have this place, and hats off to Texas, you know,
just they I love that they lead.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
In this way.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
They are the ones that are going to show us
these kids will be better prepared for college because they'll
have to learn. You have nothing else to do but
listen to your teacher talk. You know, maybe they have
these group you know, group think tanks that we used
to have. You know, the teachers said, y'all get together,
and y'all it's called critical thinking. Again, you're teaching children
how to be critical thinkers in this world because that
(03:28):
kind of was lost. You had your phone, I do
it now. I you know, a lot of my critical
thinking skills are probably gone because instead of trying to
think about I'll just google what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
What do you you know?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What is this?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
What are they trying to say here?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Instead of me thinking from myself.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I've also seen that chat ChiPT has changed. I don't
know if y'all seen that. They've kind of updated it.
So now a lot of kids were using that to
write notes, to write papers. Well, now they have a
for teachers to you'll use. It's a tool that shows
you what part of it was taken out, the percentage
of it that we restructured, reworded so that now they
(04:03):
can't get away as easily.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So they're actually using chat ChiPT to help find kids
that are using chat chi.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Exactly exactly interesting. You know you said that about critical thinking.
I'm wondering if a lot of this has to do
with our test scores in our country that we're falling below,
and maybe maybe there's this concerted effort to help us
rise in the ranks when it comes to our education,
because I think we're dumbing down our kids. So we
have been and maybe there's this new let's let's do
(04:32):
something to change that.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And having that that in the hallway, face to face
talking to each other, the social awareness, social you know,
to be able to have those social cues that I
think has also been lost with the phones. You know
that you didn't have to call the girl's house and
talk to the father lass, yeah, you know what I mean.
Like all of that's been kind of misplaced by easily texting.
(04:55):
You can easily text anything because you don't have to
worry about being embarrassed. So take away the phones also
allows you to reconnect as people. I remember summer when
she was younger, she went to summer camp and she
loved it because you could not bring your phones. She
loved to have that element taken away from her because
she was able to really engage with other people and
(05:16):
other people weren't on their phones. Like you'll go to
the restaurant now and you'll see everybody's on their phone.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I love this. I think it's going to be really
helpful to the students.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well again, happened in Texas. It's also happening in Louisiana.
Happening in New York State, It's happening in several states
across the country. This is definitely a growing trend, and
it looks state's supposed to be the laboratory of democracy.
We've had some success in multiple states. Perhaps every state
should be doing this. I agree. If you like to
ask our American Mama's a question, go to our website
American vowerrader dot com slash Mama's and click on the
(05:47):
ass the Mama's button. Terry, Netteville, Kimberly Burgs and thank
you so much. Thank you,
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