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Unplugged: Why Phone-Free Policies Help Kids Thrive at School
In this eye-opening and deeply needed episode, I sat down with Clayton Cranford—a 20-year law enforcement veteran, former school resource officer, crisis negotiator, national award winner, and founder of Cyber Safety Cop. Drawing from decades of experience at the intersection of youth culture, law enforcement, and online safety, Clay offers a clear-eyed look at the real-world impact smartphones and social media are having on kids today. We dive into the growing movement toward "bell-to-bell" phone-free school policies, why parental pushback is often rooted in misplaced fear rather than reality, and how to successfully navigate screen-time standoffs at...
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I mean, there's more kids online, there's more opportunities for exploitation, there's more opportunities for exposure to inappropriate material, all that's happening. And parents really aren't any better off. In fact, they may be worse off because they're making a lot of decisions based on, I think, misplaced fear. And they're giving children phones at earlier and
earlier ages because they think this is keeping them safe. And this is like part of the issues with, with schools going phone free, um, which is the, the, the right thing to do. But the, but the friction, right? Is parents, parents are the ones who are pushing back because of this misplaced
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