My students complain about the school policy of ba...

My students complain about the school policy of banning cell phone use during school hours--"even between classes and at lunch" they whine! Your post is precisely why we need to hold firm. As the age that children get their first cell phone gets younger and younger (in my town it's now by 5th grade), I imagine in the future we will have to teach f2f skills---as if we didn't have enough to prepare them for already!