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Nicole Skopinski
My cousin, who is in 6th grade, has a cell phone. I have no idea what he needs to have a cell phone for. When I was in middle school, I wasn't even allowed to think about having a cell phone. I couldn't drive, pay phones were at almost every corner, and I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without my parent's knowledge therefore there was no need for one. When I entered high school, I received a cell phone but it didn't have text capabilities and I was only allowed to use it for calling my parents to pick me up from school because my high school didn't have busses.

Technology has become such a huge part of today's day and age that we have, as a community, gotten rid of some of the simple yet helpful aspects of life such as pay phones. Instead of spending $30 a month on a cell phone for a pre-teen, why not give them $2 in change and bring the pay phone back into the community.

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