Speaker 1: It's nice side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS cost me.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you have children or grandchildren in
Speaker 3: a school, elementary school, high school, junior high school. But
Speaker 3: every kid today, I think over the age of certainly
Speaker 3: maybe six or seven, has a cell phone. And I
Speaker 3: know that a lot of parents want their kids to
Speaker 3: have cell phones. And the reason that parents claim, and
Speaker 3: I guess kids also claim that they want cell phones
Speaker 3: is in case of an emergency, they can contact their parents.
Speaker 3: I don't know what sort of an emergency is likely
Speaker 3: to have. I know, I know you're gonna sit there's
Speaker 3: a school shooter on the grounds, and the parents want
Speaker 3: to know their child is safe. Well, it could be
Speaker 3: that the mere presence of a cell phone with your child,
Speaker 3: if that extreme example happened, might put your child in danger.
Speaker 3: Let's assume your child is hiding in a closet in
Speaker 3: a classroom and at the moment that the shooter walks by,
Speaker 3: the child's cell phone rings. Think about that. Okay. The
Speaker 3: bottom line, though, is that there are enough distractions in schools.
Speaker 3: We've seen that there seem to be so many of
Speaker 3: these tests which they're attributing to COVID, that the math
Speaker 3: scores are going down, or the English scores are going down,
Speaker 3: or kids aren't learning as much as they should learn
Speaker 3: the bottom line, and I don't think that I fully
Speaker 3: appreciated it when I was in grammar school. I did well,
Speaker 3: and went to high school and I did fine. But
Speaker 3: every day that a child is in school is a
Speaker 3: day in which they can lay a foundation or where
Speaker 3: they might go to college, or lay a foundation for
Speaker 3: what work skills and interpersonal skills they will have when
Speaker 3: they leave high school and perhaps they join the workforce
Speaker 3: or join the military or whatever. So there has been controversy.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at an article here from late August. These
Speaker 3: articles were quite around quite a bit in August about
Speaker 3: Massachusetts schools cracking down on cell phones in class. Why
Speaker 3: should kids have a cell phone in class? I mean,
Speaker 3: the only thing that the presence of a cell phone
Speaker 3: in the possession of a student in class is going
Speaker 3: to cause distractions from whatever's being taught in that class.
Speaker 3: You cannot tell me that some kids sitting up in
Speaker 3: the back of the classroom when the teacher is talking
Speaker 3: about whatever they're talking about, whether they're talking about a
Speaker 3: history class or an English class, that they're scrolling to
Speaker 3: find out if the teacher is correct when they talk
Speaker 3: about grammar or they talk about the election of eighteen sixty.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is a subject that
Speaker 3: parents are interested in or students are interested in, but
Speaker 3: I would love to hear from parents, students, grandparents, and
Speaker 3: also teachers. It would seem to me that if you're
Speaker 3: a teacher and you're sitting out, you're standing in front
Speaker 3: of a class of twenty five kids or whatever it is,
Speaker 3: whatever the normal high school classes these days is probably
Speaker 3: less than twenty five, and you're teaching a subject that
Speaker 3: you've prepared, You've got a lesson plan that you want
Speaker 3: to get through, and you want the students to absorb
Speaker 3: whatever subject you're talking about today, and you realize that
Speaker 3: there's going to be some kids who are just sitting there,
Speaker 3: and you can tell they're tough to reach because maybe
Speaker 3: they're if they're not asleep, they're half unconscious, they're sort
Speaker 3: of just daydreaming. I think all of us have at
Speaker 3: some point daydreamed in school. It's you can have a
Speaker 3: teacher who's not particularly inspiring, but if you look back
Speaker 3: at the back or at the front of the room,
Speaker 3: in the middle of the room, and you see some
Speaker 3: kid with his head down and you can tell that
Speaker 3: he's texting. He or she is texting. You know that
Speaker 3: that student is paying no attention whatsoever to what you're
Speaker 3: trying to teach them. And you know that that student,
Speaker 3: whatever that subject is, and whatever that lesson plan is,
Speaker 3: it'll be there once and then it'll be gone forever.
Speaker 3: And if it is a subject where you need to build,
Speaker 3: let's say, like math, you have to learn how to
Speaker 3: do addition and subtraction before you can do multiplication and division,
Speaker 3: before you can do algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, whatever. It's
Speaker 3: all important. So what I'd like to do is just
Speaker 3: throw it open and have a normal conversation. I don't
Speaker 3: think there's a right or wrong issue. I feel strongly
Speaker 3: that cell phones have no place in the possession of
Speaker 3: students during the class day. I don't think that the
Speaker 3: suit I think the students can, on their own time,
Speaker 3: get up a little early. If you got to text
Speaker 3: your friends and ask about if they watched the Awards
Speaker 3: show or the MTV show last night on television, and
Speaker 3: get all that stuff out of the way. Before you
Speaker 3: go to school, while you run the school bus, you
Speaker 3: can text away, have text your other friends going to
Speaker 3: other schools or whatever. And then when you get out
Speaker 3: in the afternoon three o'clock or whatever it is two
Speaker 3: thirty in many cases, you get your cell phone back
Speaker 3: and you go ahead and you commence a texting all afternoon. Now,
Speaker 3: the teachers in the administrators cannot force the kids to
Speaker 3: do their homework without being distracted by cell phones. It's
Speaker 3: as simple as that. But during that period of five
Speaker 3: and a half maybe six hours during the day, from
Speaker 3: eight o'clock to two o'clock or from eight thirty to
Speaker 3: two thirty or whatever, the school day is not only
Speaker 3: in class moving from one if you're in high school,
Speaker 3: and moving from one classroom to another, or for that matter,
Speaker 3: during lunch, when you should be making conversation and socializing
Speaker 3: with other of your age in the you know, in
Speaker 3: the dining room or cafeteria, whatever they happen to call
Speaker 3: it in your school, it is not a time for
Speaker 3: you to be sitting there texting. So that's my position.
Speaker 3: I'd love to know what you think as a parent.
Speaker 3: Have you thought about it? I'll bet you have. As
Speaker 3: a grandparent. Have you thought about it? I'll bet you
Speaker 3: have as well most people who are grandparents today. I
Speaker 3: don't think there are any grandparents out there today who
Speaker 3: had cell phones when they were in school, because in
Speaker 3: order to be a grandparent, I'm guessing you have to
Speaker 3: be at least somewhere in maybe at the earliest your
Speaker 3: late thirties. Cell phones were not available a lot during
Speaker 3: that period of time. But I'll I want to throw
Speaker 3: it out there. I want to know cell phones. Are
Speaker 3: they something that the school administrators have to crack down on?
Speaker 3: And they best they have to. When these kids arrive
Speaker 3: at school, homeroom or whatever it is, they put their
Speaker 3: cell phone, they turn their cell phone off, and they
Speaker 3: put it in a location that they do not have
Speaker 3: access to, no one else has access to. No one
Speaker 3: wants to see their cell phones trashed or thrown away
Speaker 3: or mixed up. I'm looking at a picture now. This
Speaker 3: must have been in the Globe article and it says that, well,
Speaker 3: it looks to me as if it's almost like a
Speaker 3: wall hanging that everybody puts their cell phone and they
Speaker 3: leave it there off for the day, and maybe they
Speaker 3: should put it in They should construct a glass case,
Speaker 3: so they can see their cell phones, but they don't
Speaker 3: have access to them. So that's the question of the hour. Again.
Speaker 3: If you're a student, call up your friends, tell them,
Speaker 3: give us a call, and you can tell me why
Speaker 3: it's so incredibly important for you to have your cell
Speaker 3: phone in your hand or on your person throughout the
Speaker 3: school day, just in case there's an emergency. Look, if
Speaker 3: you get sick at school, call the school nurse, tell
Speaker 3: the teacher. They'll send you down to the school nurse.
Speaker 3: School nurse will call your parent, whatever, and you'll be
Speaker 3: all set. Maybe the parent will have an uber person.
Speaker 3: I don't know how, but they'll figure it out. They
Speaker 3: don't need you to make that initial call. The only
Speaker 3: lines that are open right now are six, one, seven, nine, three,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. I'm gratified that people have chosen to call
Speaker 3: in on this. Whatever your point of view on it is,
Speaker 3: I don't see what I don't see any benefit whatsoever
Speaker 3: for a student, high school, junior high school, elementary school
Speaker 3: from being in the possession of a cell phone from
Speaker 3: the moment they arrive at school into the moment they leave.
Speaker 3: Call me old fashioned, I'm willing to take that. Tell me,
Speaker 3: I'm unreasonable. I'm willing to take that too. I just
Speaker 3: want to take your calls. Coming back on Nightside. It's
Speaker 3: a Friday night. We're heading into the weekend. Lots going
Speaker 3: on this weekend. People are going to be going up
Speaker 3: leaf peeping, which is great. I know Patriots fans are
Speaker 3: going to watch the debut of Drake May, the regular
Speaker 3: season debut of Drake May. And we'll get it. We
Speaker 3: could talk about a lot of stuff. I have some
Speaker 3: other subjects I want to talk about as well. And
Speaker 3: we have an eleventh hour coming up tonight and I'm
Speaker 3: not exactly sure we're going to do for that. So
Speaker 3: we have surprises, surprises for me and surprises for you.
Speaker 3: We'll be back on Nightside. We got full lines right now.
Speaker 3: I love I'm loving it coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's see what people have to say. Let me
Speaker 3: go to Frank in Boston. Hey, Frank, you were next
Speaker 3: on Nightside. You were first this hour on Nightside. Actually, Frank, welcome,
Speaker 3: Oh thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't understand why anybody has these these
Speaker 5: phones that they nothing but nuisance. They everybody's staring down him,
Speaker 5: walking down the road and looking where they're going. Is
Speaker 5: the parents and the kids want to just get a
Speaker 5: standard little flip phone. Twenty five dollars for the phone,
Speaker 5: twenty five hours a month, and all you got to
Speaker 5: do is worry about picking it up when it rings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you and I think of like I loved my
Speaker 3: flip flow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a cheap thing in the world I give.
Speaker 3: I get so many emails every day, and it's like
Speaker 3: people are sending me stuff and it's like I can't
Speaker 3: keep up. I kind of it used to be that
Speaker 3: I couldn't answer everything. I try to answer the ones
Speaker 3: that people send me repeated. It's tough. But if someone
Speaker 3: sends me a nice email, says hey Dan, I like
Speaker 3: your show, Thanks, I'll send them a quick little thank
Speaker 3: you email. We don't do mail anymore. We don't write
Speaker 3: letters to our friends anymore. So it's all come down
Speaker 3: to it got to be email. And now it's like
Speaker 3: they don't even want you to take time at email.
Speaker 3: They want you to text message.
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's all right, as long as it's short
Speaker 5: and sweet. But I don't I don't get it and
Speaker 5: not only that, but what do it? I don't understand
Speaker 5: why people don't realize that these phones are putting so
Speaker 5: much junk in front of them, and you got enough
Speaker 5: stuff going on in your life that you need to
Speaker 5: deal with. Why are you gonna put all this junk
Speaker 5: in front of you? All this what is it? All
Speaker 5: these want to be liked and all that stuff? Why
Speaker 5: you gotta complicate your life when it's already complicated enough.
Speaker 5: And then the parents are paying, not only buying these
Speaker 5: phones for them, but they're paying their monthly bills. It is.
Speaker 3: If you ever decide to run for office, would you
Speaker 3: let me know because I think I'd like to manage
Speaker 3: your campaign or at least contribute to it, because you
Speaker 3: make more since been all these politicians, I'm serious when
Speaker 3: I say that.
Speaker 5: It's it's because we complicate our lives. We just complicated
Speaker 5: too much.
Speaker 3: I think we do. Hey, Frank, I loved your call.
Speaker 3: If you ever called me before, since your.
Speaker 5: First time, you know, twenty of times.
Speaker 3: You keep calling. Okay, and as they say you decide
Speaker 3: can run for politics, you gotta let me know because
Speaker 3: I want to manage your campaign. You your breath of
Speaker 3: fresh air, my friend. Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: How old breath of fresh air.
Speaker 3: No, it doesn't matter, no, no, no, no, your fresh
Speaker 3: air is good, no matter where, at what age it is. Okay,
Speaker 3: I really thank you, thank you, my friend, don't.
Speaker 5: You thank you?
Speaker 3: I like that call. He's right to the point. Only
Speaker 3: line opened six one, seven, two, four ten thirty. Chris
Speaker 3: is in Chelmsford. Chris cell phones in schools. What say you?
Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think that would be a
Speaker 2: good idea. I think if you take it to the
Speaker 2: rookieo school, the nun would take it in or I'm
Speaker 2: not going to hit him with the ruler. But I'm
Speaker 2: not sure what.
Speaker 3: They mean with the rule that then they hit you
Speaker 3: in the head with it. I shouldn't say that, because
Speaker 3: I'm sure the nuns are different back in the day. Though,
Speaker 3: You're right, really you had to.
Speaker 2: Because when my mother went to Saint Agnes and Arlington
Speaker 2: to when when you would play, when she would play
Speaker 2: the wrong note, you would get hit by the rule.
Speaker 2: That's told me when she was alive.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how how old your mom was,
Speaker 3: but I played hockey against Saint Agnes in c Yo
Speaker 3: hockey and they were always a good team, those guys,
Speaker 3: those guys from Arlington, trust me on that.
Speaker 2: She would have been ninety three this past mate.
Speaker 3: No, she's a little older than I am. Let me
Speaker 3: put it like that.
Speaker 2: But oh yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3: My mom's birthday would have been It was October fourteen.
Speaker 3: She had the same birthday as then President eisenhow which
Speaker 3: as a young boy I thought was pretty cool. She wow, yeah,
Speaker 3: she would have been well well over one hundred. So hey, but.
Speaker 2: They we have been home. Then they see, you know,
Speaker 2: they'll teach, they'll they'll follow the education with the teacher
Speaker 2: seeing what they're really teaching. They'll open the phone, and.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting concept. That's an interesting concept actually listen
Speaker 3: to what the teacher's saying and learn something.
Speaker 2: Exactly how long ago were.
Speaker 3: You in school, Chris? How old are you now?
Speaker 2: I am fifty six next Saturday until the nineteenth, Thank
Speaker 2: you and.
Speaker 3: Happy birthday in advance. And when when you and I
Speaker 3: were in school, there weren't cell phones. The only thing
Speaker 3: that was distracting was probably some of the teachers who
Speaker 3: were who you who you thought didn't know what they
Speaker 3: were talking about. And as you get older, you realize
Speaker 3: your teachers were a lot smarter than your thought at
Speaker 3: the time. Let's put it like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who went to they had a pay phone.
Speaker 3: Them they had to do what?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had a pay phone them.
Speaker 3: Your payphone? Yeah right, I remember payphones. Uh, there aren't
Speaker 3: many of those left. I haven't seen one of those
Speaker 3: in about ten or fifteen years. But I will bet
Speaker 3: you somewhere there's a payphone. I had a friend of
Speaker 3: mine who I had a friend of mine who invested
Speaker 3: in payphones. You actually could buy your payphones, and you could,
Speaker 3: and it was just before cell phones came in. It
Speaker 3: was probably the worst investment investment the guy, the guy
Speaker 3: ever made sadlls.
Speaker 2: Chris, have a great week, okay, enjoyed the Patriots, geared,
Speaker 2: don't you four?
Speaker 3: No, No, he didn't know, he didn't. But it was
Speaker 3: a friend of mine who said, this is a great thing.
Speaker 3: I just go around like collect the money out of
Speaker 3: bay phones. Well shortly they were after there were no
Speaker 3: pay phones to collect. Thanks again, Chris, I appreciate your calling.
Speaker 2: Think would get anything everybody you do.
Speaker 3: Let's go to John and drake it. John up on
Speaker 3: the New Hampshire border and drake it. Hey, John, welcome
Speaker 3: next on nightsick fraid hen Hawaii.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great idea. I think it's a
Speaker 4: great idea for them to, you know, take these phones
Speaker 4: from the kids. You know, so like you said, you
Speaker 4: know kids in the back of the room. He's not
Speaker 4: even paying attention, you know, he is because his head's down.
Speaker 4: They could have some type of device app of some
Speaker 4: sort where if the kid walks through like a scanner
Speaker 4: in the school, that it dismantles the phone. He could
Speaker 4: stay on, the phone could stay in this person, but
Speaker 4: it dismantles it. Now, if there's ever a crisis or
Speaker 4: something sort of issue in the school, it would send
Speaker 4: an alert to the phone. I'm thinking of all this
Speaker 4: weird stuff now because I'm not that I said, but
Speaker 4: I'm thinking that that would be an ideal thing. If
Speaker 4: somebody could, you know, come out with that, some big
Speaker 4: IT company or some sort that I'm sure they're already
Speaker 4: looking into it, that it would send this particular stop
Speaker 4: block thing to every phone in every person's possession and
Speaker 4: then turn it right back on at two thirty five
Speaker 4: in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: It would be I think that's reasonable. Yeah, And I
Speaker 3: suspect that that technology probably exists Elon Musk probably invented it.
Speaker 4: It might, it might be out there, right I'm hoping
Speaker 4: that it comes that way, because you know, these kids
Speaker 4: are decidened by it. But you know, it's only a
Speaker 4: couple hours of your life, and you have to be
Speaker 4: in there for curriculum. You don't have to be in
Speaker 4: there to be texting or going onto your YouTube channel.
Speaker 4: I mean again, I'd be honest with you if I
Speaker 4: was in school nowadays and that was the case and
Speaker 4: I had a phone the way I am as an adult,
Speaker 4: because I'm always scooping around on the phone based on
Speaker 4: my background, as you know, being a comedian and everything else,
Speaker 4: I'll be on that phone like nobody's business, even in school.
Speaker 4: I mean it's just like I would be distracted by
Speaker 4: the fact that someone's got to take this advice from me.
Speaker 3: John, here's the deal, Okay. I like to think of
Speaker 3: myself as a fairly disciplined person, meaning I have to
Speaker 3: put a show on every night. You as a comedian,
Speaker 3: you've got to develop a new set periodically. You got
Speaker 3: to work new jobs, and you got to work on
Speaker 3: your time, and you got to keep your show yourself
Speaker 3: in shape. Antaline people don't realize it. They think that,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, comedians get out there. No comedians, Yeah, really
Speaker 3: hard to develop, right. What I uh say is that
Speaker 3: when I have a couple of minutes and I'm just bored,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, I'll click on something and
Speaker 3: I'll see, you know, there's oh there's a baseball player.
Speaker 3: It's a goofy baseball player, some guy right the wrong
Speaker 3: way of the basis.
Speaker 2: Okay, I look at that.
Speaker 3: And then the next thing is, oh, there's a foot
Speaker 3: ball play and I look at that, and then the
Speaker 3: comedian maybe it's you, maybe it's someone else doing like
Speaker 3: about thirty seconds like I guess you turn later and
Speaker 3: you say, what what have I've been doing for the
Speaker 3: last fifteen minutes? And dedictive? It is as they know
Speaker 3: how our brains are wired, they know what to do
Speaker 3: to us. And this is.
Speaker 4: Something I've been called well on a number of occasions
Speaker 4: from family members and not just them, but my girlfriend
Speaker 4: as well, saying well, you keep off that phone.
Speaker 3: Yep, we know exactly what you were going to that
Speaker 3: you didn't say, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know how the time, Yeah, but
Speaker 4: that's what she'd say, And I'll tell you you know,
Speaker 4: it's just it's it's dishoveling because they're just sitting there
Speaker 4: and you're not paying attention, you know, and it happens.
Speaker 3: John, let me let me ask you. When's your next
Speaker 3: gig coming up? Where are you are you?
Speaker 6: I'm all serious.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. Tomorrow night, River Edge in Maseu and
Speaker 4: at four seventy Lowell Street Johnny Joycecomedy dot com or
Speaker 4: Boston's Best Comedians dot com. We're kicking off my new
Speaker 4: comedy club tomorrow night right there at River Edge Restaurant,
Speaker 4: four seventy eight Lowell Street in Mavillain.
Speaker 3: My pleasure. If I was anywhere near there, I would
Speaker 3: have dropped by to see the set. But I'm not
Speaker 3: geographically close to where you are. But uh, just go
Speaker 3: break a lake to ball night, have a great a
Speaker 3: great set and if anybody is. People always looking for
Speaker 3: different things to do. So this is north of Boston.
Speaker 3: It's in the wood.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right off the highway, right off the highway there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if they google that address, they'll realize that it's right
Speaker 4: off the rimp. And guess what they gotta They gotta
Speaker 4: shut their cell phones off, work.
Speaker 3: Something into your your show tomorrow night on that you
Speaker 3: can come up with something between now and then.
Speaker 4: I know you can't, most certainly can. And I'll bring
Speaker 4: up WBZ tevisary with Dan Baby.
Speaker 3: There be some people in the audience up there. We
Speaker 3: have a lot of listeners up north of the city.
Speaker 4: No, you know, you know if.
Speaker 3: Look folks, if you don't have something to do anight,
Speaker 3: you know with your with your significant other. Yeah, where's
Speaker 3: the club again, John, Let's give it one more time
Speaker 3: in case they.
Speaker 4: Miss River Edge at four seventy eight Lowell Street in
Speaker 4: the Sewing on one ten just right there off the highway,
Speaker 4: and you can check out Boston'sduscomedians dot com or Johnny
Speaker 4: Joycecomedy dot com seven eight one eight two zero three
Speaker 4: seven three eight.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you you know how to plug a show. Great,
Speaker 3: great job, John, Doug, you soon, buddy, Thank you, thanks
Speaker 3: very much. Six one seven, two five, four ten thirty
Speaker 3: triple eight nine two nine ten thirty. Cell phones Do
Speaker 3: they belong anywhere in school during the school day? I
Speaker 3: say definitely no. There is no redeeming social value for
Speaker 3: a kid in school at any age to have a
Speaker 3: cell phone, period. End of story. Coming back right after
Speaker 3: the news at the bottom of the hour on a
Speaker 3: Friday night. They were heading into a very nice fall weekend.
Speaker 3: Patriots are at home, new quarterback. All of that A
Speaker 3: lot to talk about, we a lot to experience this weekend.
Speaker 3: To stay with us, We'll be right back on nightside.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna keep rolling. He're gonna go to them.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever had this name before. Maybe
Speaker 3: I have Hawa in Boston. Hawa, How are you.
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 7: I'm good?
Speaker 3: How How am I pronouncing your name correctly? Is it
Speaker 3: Hawa or Hawa Hawaii?
Speaker 8: I'm actually call it a long time listener and a
Speaker 8: first time calling.
Speaker 3: First time caller. All right, let's get that applause going
Speaker 3: from our Wadi's with the studio audi itself. Hawa, thank
Speaker 3: you very much. You Sundly, you have some little ones
Speaker 3: in there in the back. What's going on?
Speaker 8: And I've got eleven year old who you actually honed
Speaker 8: in your message because I've been trying to explain to
Speaker 8: her why she's not she shouldn't have a phone.
Speaker 7: She's not old enough yet.
Speaker 2: And it leads to a lot of distractions in school.
Speaker 8: But she, you know, she wants to always combat my
Speaker 8: argument with hers, and why why why? But your example
Speaker 8: of the fact that this could lead to, you know,
Speaker 8: an even serious situation where if something was going on
Speaker 8: in school, for example, the extreme example you gave from
Speaker 8: the school, shoot that that that phone could really lead to.
Speaker 3: You know, I need to talk to you eleven year
Speaker 3: old right now.
Speaker 8: And yes, well she talks to her name is.
Speaker 6: Rosie.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can you be a phone with us at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be.
Speaker 8: I'm right here with you all so you can talk
Speaker 8: to her.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hi, Rosie, how are you good? What grade are
Speaker 3: you in in school?
Speaker 9: I'm in fifth grade?
Speaker 3: Wow? Fifth grade? Are you in a school in Austin?
Speaker 3: I assume you got a lot of friends.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I have a lot of friends, and I'm in
Speaker 9: a school in Cambridge.
Speaker 3: In Cambridge, oh okay, a lot of smart people, a
Speaker 3: lot of smart schools in Cambridge. So now my understanding
Speaker 3: is that your mom has been trying to convince you
Speaker 3: that having a cell phone with you can be distracting.
Speaker 3: I think she's got a point. Well, tell me why
Speaker 3: a cell phone is a good thing for you to
Speaker 3: have with you all day long when you're in school,
Speaker 3: because I don't understand that. Can you explain that to me?
Speaker 9: Sometimes I used to think that having a phone on
Speaker 9: you in school was helpful because just like how you said,
Speaker 9: it could be helpful in an emergency. But after you
Speaker 9: said that, like if it rings, the that guy could
Speaker 9: like come towards you. Now I'm understanding that it doesn't
Speaker 9: really matter and you don't really need it. And there's
Speaker 9: phones around the school for a reason, and the teachers
Speaker 9: or the grown ups so the staff can call for you.
Speaker 9: There's no need for a personal iPhone or phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so do they have Are you allowed
Speaker 3: to bring your cell phone to school or do you
Speaker 3: have to put it in some sort of like a
Speaker 3: pouch when you bring in when you go to school.
Speaker 9: At school, some people they have their phones and their backpacks,
Speaker 9: so they just leave it in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they turn it off, So it's so it
Speaker 3: does bring I hope right. Well, again, if the kids
Speaker 3: are mature, you sounding a very mature eleven year old,
Speaker 3: you're going to do really well in school. But I
Speaker 3: think if I would just stick with that. The other
Speaker 3: thing that I think is very very important, do you
Speaker 3: guys have a cafeteria or a lunch room when you
Speaker 3: have lunch together. Yes, I think that's so important. If
Speaker 3: everybody had a cell phone and everybody's looking at their
Speaker 3: cell phone, there'd be no socialization. You have a great
Speaker 3: opportunity to make lifelong friends in school, and the best
Speaker 3: time during the day is it lunch when you get
Speaker 3: a chance to talk to them and find out what
Speaker 3: they like and what you like. And this, I know
Speaker 3: this sounds a little crazy because they know it's tough
Speaker 3: to go to school. There were days when I didn't
Speaker 3: want to go to school. But take advantage of every day,
Speaker 3: learn something new every day, and you'll be it'll be help.
Speaker 3: It'll help you in life so much that you can imagine.
Speaker 3: And you're going to do really well. Rosie, thank you
Speaker 3: so much for talking to me. You've got a great mom. Okay,
Speaker 3: thank you. Thanks, Thanks Rosie. I hope you're still there.
Speaker 10: I'm still here, and I'm so grateful for you to
Speaker 10: help meet and get that in her head and so well.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you I've had my kids are a little
Speaker 3: older at this point. That's that's one sharp young lady.
Speaker 2: You're a very sharp young lady.
Speaker 10: She's exceptional in her class work and just her overall
Speaker 10: maturity as an eleven year old and continues to doing
Speaker 10: like just take us by surprise each day, so we're
Speaker 10: very proud of her.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you there are very few kids who
Speaker 3: at the age of eleven, we'll be able to get
Speaker 3: on the phone with an adult that they don't know
Speaker 3: and haven't you had about something and respond all her
Speaker 3: questions were so responsive. I was very, very impressed. I'd
Speaker 3: love to know where she's going to be about ten
Speaker 3: or twelve years from now, because she's going to be
Speaker 3: graduating college. You how many children do you have?
Speaker 2: How I have three?
Speaker 8: I have eleven, seven and almost two year old.
Speaker 3: Well, and that eleven year old is going to set
Speaker 3: a wonderful example for your other two children.
Speaker 4: So she's already setting it.
Speaker 8: Dan, I'm telling you so thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for listening to Night's side, and I'm
Speaker 3: telling you keep us posted. She's she's something special and
Speaker 3: I think you are a mom or something special.
Speaker 4: Too, So thank thank you.
Speaker 3: I have a great weekend. I hope she gets a
Speaker 3: long weekend. She doesn't have to go to school on Monday.
Speaker 2: No, she doesn't.
Speaker 10: She has a great long week.
Speaker 3: That's great. Thanks again. I'll look forward to your next call.
Speaker 8: Okay, thanks absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Bye Dan, Bye, Rosie. Take any you're you're you're great, Rosie.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you you're gonna be something. Someday you'll take
Speaker 3: my job or something like that. But you're gonna you're
Speaker 3: gonna have a great life. Just just keep keep working
Speaker 3: hard and having fun. Thanks Rosie.
Speaker 2: Thanks all right, thank you, good night, good night, ladies,
Speaker 2: good night night.
Speaker 3: Wow. I really enjoyed that call. I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 3: it as well. If you want to comment, that's an
Speaker 3: eleven year old with the maturity and the language skills.
Speaker 3: She's gonna be going to great school and she must
Speaker 3: have great parents. I can tell right now that she's
Speaker 3: going to be something special. There's no doubt. I gotta
Speaker 3: I'm gonna remember this call. I really will. Rosie eleven
Speaker 3: years old. Wow, look gonna take a quick break. If
Speaker 3: you'd like to comment, why can't every kid be like that? Huh?
Speaker 3: If every child was was like that, we would we
Speaker 3: would be we would all know that I was so secured,
Speaker 3: checks would be there for a long time to come. Anyway,
Speaker 3: here's the number six one. I got a couple of
Speaker 3: open lines six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
Speaker 3: six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I am
Speaker 3: so proud of Rosie, so proud of how and I'd
Speaker 3: love to hear your reaction to what that eleven year
Speaker 3: old young lady had to say and how she comported herself.
Speaker 3: And also big big kudos to the mom for basically
Speaker 3: calling in, setting a great example and giving her an
Speaker 3: opportunity to be on the radio. We'll take a break,
Speaker 3: but coming right back on Nightside, I can wide open lines.
Speaker 3: Let's let's have a couple of comments on Rosie because
Speaker 3: I think she was extraordinary, as was her mom, or
Speaker 3: as is her mom, I should say, be right back
Speaker 3: on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: to night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: I hope you heard that call with Hawa, her mom
Speaker 3: and her daughter, Rosie. How if you're still listening, a Rosie,
Speaker 3: if you're still listening, please call back. I want to
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Speaker 3: the phone conversation that I forgot just to have your
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Speaker 3: It's called six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 3: Rob will wait for you. We'll get that information and
Speaker 3: we'll get that out to you, hopefully well by Monday. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll have a rosie and opportunity to wear the T
Speaker 3: shirt proudly to school all right, let's keep rolling here.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to Brianna in Everett. Hi Brianna, welcome
Speaker 3: you next on night Side.
Speaker 7: Hi Dan, this is my I'm a first time caller,
Speaker 7: but my fallar listens to me all the time.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much. I'm honored. I'm honored. Tell
Speaker 3: me what your thought is about cell phones. You sound
Speaker 3: like you may have kids in school. I'm guessing I do.
Speaker 7: I'm thirty three years old, but I have a fifteen
Speaker 7: year old in sophomore here, the sophomore in high school,
Speaker 7: and I have an eight year old who was in
Speaker 7: third grade.
Speaker 9: H huh?
Speaker 3: How how are they reacting to cell phones?
Speaker 7: My daughter does not have a cell phone. I do
Speaker 7: not think that she's old enough her cell phone, and
Speaker 7: she definitely wouldn't have in school, that's for sure. Okay,
Speaker 7: my son, he has a cell phone, but he is
Speaker 7: only allowed to. We have like a parental control thing
Speaker 7: on it, so he can only call like out to
Speaker 7: like an emergency number, or me or my mother, my father,
Speaker 7: his father during school hours.
Speaker 3: I got confused. Which one is older, Brionni, your son
Speaker 3: a daughter?
Speaker 7: My son is fifteen. His name is Christopher. My daughter
Speaker 7: is eight she's Amelia.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 7: And so when I was in school, we didn't have
Speaker 7: cell phones. We were allowed to bring cell phones to school.
Speaker 7: There was no We had pagers and beepers. And I
Speaker 7: just think that, like with all the school shootings that
Speaker 7: are going on, I think that kids should be saying
Speaker 7: that more focused on the awareness in their surroundings and
Speaker 7: paying attention not only to that classwork, but like I said,
Speaker 7: to the surrounding, making sure like they're okay. And if
Speaker 7: it only takes a second to look down at that
Speaker 7: text message to for a bullet to go flying, and
Speaker 7: that's that's a scary thought. Yeah, it's a very scary thought.
Speaker 7: But that little girl, Rosie, that's I was gonna call
Speaker 7: you before you even said call and comments on her
Speaker 7: that was amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's what I want to do for you, Brianna.
Speaker 3: I want you to stay on the line. I want
Speaker 3: to send T shirts to you, your daughter and your son.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get a T shirt for you. We'll
Speaker 3: get a pig nice eyed T shirt for you and
Speaker 3: your daughter, and we'll get a great T shirt for
Speaker 3: your son.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Jan well, looking forward to it. Thanks for being such
Speaker 3: a loyal listener. And also you can drop a note
Speaker 3: if you want to Jack Doherty at College Hype dot
Speaker 3: com in Dorchester when you get him, because we wouldn't
Speaker 3: have them give out if he wasn't kind enough to
Speaker 3: produce him for us. So if people are interested in
Speaker 3: getting them, you know I'm going to send them to you.
Speaker 3: Don't worry. Well and hopefully was that how all called back?
Speaker 3: I hope, Bob. Okay, so how is called back? Get
Speaker 3: she and Rosie a couple of T shirts as well,
Speaker 3: and I just you may want to send a thank
Speaker 3: you note. The guy that owns the company is a
Speaker 3: good friend of mine, Jack Dougherty. So hang in there,
Speaker 3: right there, we'll get all this information. Okay, thanks Brianna,
Speaker 3: have a great weekend. Let me go next to pal Dennis. Dennis.
Speaker 3: How you doing tonight, buddy? You Dennis was a teacher
Speaker 3: for years.
Speaker 2: That's why I was gonna comment. I know I'm breaking
Speaker 2: the rules, damn, but.
Speaker 3: That's okay, that's okay. We make exceptions on Friday night.
Speaker 2: Yes, I taught a Low high for forty years and
Speaker 2: I've been substitute teaching for the past ten years at
Speaker 2: Lowell High School. I have a little experience. The system
Speaker 2: at low High is, you know, you can bring a
Speaker 2: cell phone with you to school, but when you go
Speaker 2: into a classroom, you put in what we call a
Speaker 2: lock box locked up.
Speaker 3: That's what al go first, talk talk the phrase lock box,
Speaker 3: the security number that goes into the lock box.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, So now that's the system we use
Speaker 2: because otherwise it is too distracting, you know, to the students.
Speaker 2: But I also have to comment on that eleven year old.
Speaker 2: How impressive.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I was so blown away I
Speaker 3: forgot about a night's eye T shirt and said so.
Speaker 3: But they've called back and we're gonna be.
Speaker 2: All set excellent. They deserve them.
Speaker 3: Dennis. Thanks man. I got to get you one at
Speaker 3: some point, but we'll get.
Speaker 2: I have enough shifts. I coached six sploits. I'm good.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I know you played to baseball too.
Speaker 2: I know that absolutely, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Dennis, Thanks to talk to you soon. Dennis played
Speaker 3: at Lowell State when all right, thanks, how much? We
Speaker 3: got minute thirty. We're gonna get Jim in Maryland. In Hey, Jim,
Speaker 3: I got a minute thirty for you. Go right ahead,
Speaker 3: we're gonna wrap the hour.
Speaker 6: Jim, you had no problem Dan that that girl was amazing,
Speaker 6: just amazing.
Speaker 3: Eleven years old, that presence just just wonderful. There's hope
Speaker 3: for America as long as we have a few rosies
Speaker 3: coming along.
Speaker 6: Oh definitely. But I think that the the phones, you know,
Speaker 6: I know you need them for emergency or whatever, but
Speaker 6: just disengage the students as much as you can from
Speaker 6: cell phones other than an emergency.
Speaker 3: Right, Disengage from the cell phone and engage in the classroom,
Speaker 3: simple as that.
Speaker 6: Pabulus's have some more social skills going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got.
Speaker 3: You, You got your The social skills on that you
Speaker 3: get on a phone call are not particularly good at best,
Speaker 3: and they can be pretty dangerous at worst. I'm going
Speaker 3: to get one more in, Jim, thank you much.
Speaker 6: We're talking to Okay, go get them.
Speaker 11: Dan.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you for listening down there in Maryland so regularly.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. All Right, final call, Brian, you called late.
Speaker 3: I got thirty seconds for you. That's all I can do, Brian,
Speaker 3: go right ahead.
Speaker 11: Yeah, this is Brian from wes Roxby. I called you
Speaker 11: about the bag law and the bike laws and Wes Roxbury.
Speaker 11: But these cell phones. I'm eighty one years old now,
Speaker 11: Dave and Dan. But that's okay, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: That's fine. I have a brother named Dave. He's smarter
Speaker 3: than I.
Speaker 11: But anyway, at Christmas time, when I went to my
Speaker 11: sister's house, she had a little basket in the hallway.
Speaker 11: When they came in the door, they had to put
Speaker 11: the cell phones in the in the basket.
Speaker 3: I'm with you totally. Your sister's a smart woman. Let
Speaker 3: me tell you, hey, you called me. I got you
Speaker 3: yet under the wire, but I gotta let you run
Speaker 3: because I got the news coming at me. Brian, call again.
Speaker 3: We'll get you. Give you more time, I promise.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'll talk to you again. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Thanks Brian, seeing West Roxbury. Thanks, good night. All right,
Speaker 3: done for the hour. We come back. We're gonna talk
Speaker 3: about another problem we gotta deal with. Uh, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about that right after the ten