We have educators who are talented and driven to educate the next generation. Phones get in the way of their work, taking away an average total of 41 days of learning every school year. My Phone-Free Schools Act will ensure phones are away for the day, across our state.

🚨 ATTN WA STATE PARENTS - DO NOT OBEY BOOB🚨 Ferguson wants student phones put away FIRST BELL TO LAST BELL — not just during class. That means no student phone access during class, hallways or lunch. He says the goal is reducing distractions and improving learning and student engagement. But understand the practical effect: 📵 No filming what happens in classrooms. 📵 No filming hallway fights or bullying. 📵 No recording what a teacher says. 📵 No documenting controversial classroom material in real time. Those are effects of a bell-to-bell restriction — not motives Ferguson has stated. Parents: read the proposal, talk to your kids, and decide for yourselves whether you support a full-day restriction or think phones should remain accessible outside instructional time.

Driven to educate? Are you sure you didn't mean driven to indoctrinate?

Home school and stay out of this terrible school system is the chant in Wa

Washington Public schools, underperform those of Mississippi It disgraceful fact that Washington progressive cannot live down It’s not because of cell phones it’s because of the curriculum VOTE OUT CHRIS REYKDAL AND BOB FERGUSON

I am sorry but your first sentence is inaccurate. If you havent noticed, metrics show that you are failing the next generation. I bet many of those students learn more from their phones than they do from their teachers.

Teachers are happy they won’t get caught now.

No, unless cameras are in every classroom than my child will always have theirs on them. To record the indoctriNATION

Another day another distraction from Sideshow Bob. Surely local school boards and administrators have this authority already. Seems like this move is designed to explain away the failing public schools, which his family avoided.

Taking phones away from students will mean the teachers can get away with whatever they want. Great Job Failure Ferguson!

They don’t want kids to be able to record what the teachers are teaching or saying.

Phone-Free Schools Act? Bob, kids are losing way more than 41 days to your failed classrooms and test scores in the gutter. Fix the curriculum and back the teachers on discipline before you grandstand about phones.

School District leaders are capable of making decisions for themselves and their districts. Why don’t you focus on reducing taxes, crime, and illegal aliens?

Bob doesn't want the kids to have access to actual facts while they're being indoctrinated by his army of socialist teachers.

They didn’t ban phones because kids can’t focus. They banned them because kids keep filming what’s happening in class.

I'll agree to this but teachers have to wear body cams every day.

Educate or indoctrinate with the lie that is critical theory? They're a failed institution just like Washington.

Why don't the teachers just make them put the phones away? How is our society going backwards?

"Phones get in the way of their work." Right. Because you don't want the indoctrination and grooming of children to be documented. Homeschooling is the only safe option in WA state.

you know what takes away more days of learning than cell phones? illegal alien students that can’t read, write or understand english

So do the rainbow flags and the Palestinian ones

Until PARENTS Rights are restored, keep students' phones with temporary! Nice try, Bob but with all the 💩 going on with predator teachers, abuse of students, taking away the ONLY avenue to protect ur kids...KEEP STUDENTS PHONES with students!! @usedgov

You’re trying to hide something DO NOT TRUST THESE TEACHERS!!!

Teachers can’t just tell kids to put their phones away during class? Sounds like the kids run the classroom.

Well, I do agree phones are a distraction in school, this is not the reason why you do not want them. You just want the excluded phones so no one can video what the teachers shouldn’t be teaching.

Most teachers are not driven to educate a generation. They’re driven to have summers off, 2 weeks off for Christmas break, plus all federally observed holidays. Schools constantly try to alienate & control students. Just another way to do that. Just like ridiculous mask mandates

I was for this years ago. But honestly, I don’t know what to think anymore. I want the distraction put away so that the students pay attention and learn, but now the question is WHAT are they being taught?

Than remove the legislation that allows schools to keep parents in the dark about their own children.

Hard Pass. Phones are the only means parents have to know exactly what happens in their child’s classroom.

Cameras in every classroom and in every common area. Parents pay attention to this commie move. Do not let your kids become sitting ducks. I don’t trust this guy as far as I can throw him. Take your kids out of public schools.

Legalese talk, words matter. "We have educators who are talented and driven..." That is the vendor (The State) describing its own workforce to "customers". Children are customers in training, feedback loop shut out. Customers get whatever is served. Customers have no agency.

You’re so full of shit and so are the teachers

Ferguson filmed this is SPOKANE with 2% black people population. Look at this criminal he cheated-in by mail for Spokane Mayor ... Wilson is JUST dumb, not a criminal. See the diff. Check out BLK Spokane City Council Pres.