[floridaorange]

We've done a terrible job shielding our youth from the internet and smart photos. Might seem inacuous to those of you who aren't parents of kids, but I have a son in middle school and elementary school. You can spot the kids who are on smart phones by the way they carry themselves almost. Giving the world access to our children is the stupidest choice a parent can make. The amount of garbage online that a kid can click on should scare us. Then they go to class and think - I'm just like an adult, since they have been watching content that is often not suitable for adults. Disrespectfulness, rudeness and entitlement. But there is so much profit in monetizing our youth, our capitalistic ways are too strong to collectively come to an agreement that no kid should have a smart phone under the age of 18.

Side note: Our childs first period teacher took their life during week 2. He was drawing pornographic material and selling it on his etsy page which was linked to his FB page. He was a graphic arts teacher. Graphic indeed. The kids could access the page and so could the adults. It was images of satan - horns and all - in various sex positions with a big fat lady. Very twisted weird art, I can tell you that. He was the one teacher my son said seemed off when we talked about his new experience at school. This is one of the top art schools in the area kids and parents love. Yes I spoke with the principle, who told me what the teachers do on their own time is up to them, and that the school was similar to Austin Texas, blue surrounded by red.... yikes.

Teachers, schools, they need our prayers. Turn a blind eye to that if you want, but they desperately need Holy intervention as far as I'm concerned. Any kid who is stopping the class from being able to focus should have to go to the office and talk to the Admin.