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Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Press Release Screentime will CA State enact awareness and SCR 73 Blue
light 2019 with article called I Changed My Mind About Kids and Phones. I Hope
Everyone Else Does, Too.
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04-23-24
PRESS RELEASE.
(P.R.D.D.C.)
PARENTS FOR THE RIGHTS OF DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED CHILDREN
CRAIG A. DURFEY FOUNDER OF P.R.D.D.C.
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U.S. HOUSE OF CONGRESS H2404 - HONORING CRAIG DURFEY FOR HIS FIGHT AGAINST AUTISM
... Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2003-03-27/pdf/CREC-2003-03-27.pdf
To Whom it may concern.
Important to note the growing epidemic number of children impacted with social media,
our State has yet addressed this crisis because they haven’t awoken to what is known
medically or schools. CA State enacted SB 224 year 2021-2022 to teach (b) For the
foregoing reasons, it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this measure to ensure
that all California pupils in grades 1 to 12, inclusive, have the opportunity to benefit from
a comprehensive mental health education grade Mental Health
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB224 AB-
638 Mental Health Services Act: early intervention and prevention programs.(2021-2022)
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB224 .
SCR 73, Pan. Blue Light Awareness Day. This measure would designate October 10 of
each year as Blue Light Awareness Day in California.
WHEREAS, There are over 80 million electronic devices with digital screens in the State
of California; and
WHEREAS, Screen time viewing with electronic devices exceeds over nine hours per day;
and
WHEREAS, The increased usage of, and access to, digital devices by young children and
adolescents is an acute area of concern, as ophthalmologists, optometrists, and medical
researchers continue to learn more about the short-term effects of increasing and
cumulative exposure to artificial blue light on the developing human eye and mental
health at a young age, along with long-term potential cumulative effects on adult eye
health and mental development; and
WHEREAS, The scientific community and recent studies have identified growing
concerns over potential long-term eye and health impacts for all age groups from digital
screen usage and cumulative blue light exposure emitted from digital devices; and
WHEREAS, Blue light has been reported to cause visual discomfort in 65 percent of
Americans; and
WHEREAS, Blue light has been associated with possible harmful effects on retinal cell
physiology linked to the high-energy, short wavelength in the narrow range of 415–455
nanometers; and:
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News story describes of the State of UT efforts with a campaign awareness about social
media since CA has yet again recognized the harm from screentime.
THE lack of awareness Sorley needed the State of Utah has a social media awareness
campaign. Recent academic research and a report from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek
Murthy have tied social media use to declines in mental health for teens, and Cox said
there is a “causal link” between the two.
On the issue of kids, smartphones, and social media, a vibe shift is happening, and it’s
happening on the left, right, and in the center. Here’s a survey of recent anti-phone
discourse on the topic in politics and culture in recent weeks and months: The TikTok
“ban” (don’t call it that) garnered bipartisan support in the House, and Gov. Ron DeSantis
signed a bill making it illegal for people under 14 to have social media accounts in
Florida.
51925 (External Link) and other health education requirements Collaborate with your
county office of education, community-based and non-profit
organizations, and local health department to provide professional learning for health
teachers and other educators teaching mental health education to build;
This education code provides the opportunity for local Collaborate with your county
office of education with various experience hopefully will review what has been
published to address gaps from algorithm creating dopamine addictions from to long
usages from screen time.
Review health education content standards and instructional materials, if offered,
to determine alignment with mental health education requirements per Ed. Code
51925 (External Link) and other health education requirements (External Link).
o Collaborate with your county office of education, community-based and non-profit
organizations, and local health department to provide professional learning for
health teachers and other educators teaching mental health education to build;
their capacity for providing skill-based mental health education that is trauma informed
and affirming for students.
o Evaluate your current efforts and create a plan to expand student access to
mental health education in coordination with other frameworks and initiatives,
including Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI) (External Link),
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB224
#SaveTheKids packs Snow Canyon High: ‘Most important app for your child is you’
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ST. GEORGE — “How social media is destroying our kids” was the topic presented during
an event attended by more than 1,000 Thursday night, where an internet crusader offered
parents a lifeline to guard children against social media’s culture of perfection, and to
empower parents in the battle to save their children from social engineering.
{ The presentation was based on the premise that smart phones, too much screen time
and social media’s negative effects are the underlying link to the epidemic rise in teen
depression and anxiety, eating disorders, self-harming, thoughts of suicide and suicide
itself.} https://archives.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2018/09/14/cgb-savethekids-
packs-snow-canyon-high-most-important-app-for-your-child-is-you/#.Xb9rXjNKhPY
Utah governor unveils education campaign warning of social media.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is launching a public information campaign “unmasking” the
threat social media use may pose to teenagers, and Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday
promised more litigation against social media platforms in the future.
Recent academic research and a report from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy have
tied social media use to declines in mental health for teens, and Cox said there is a
“causal link” between the two.
“We care about our kids in Utah, and I know that’s true across the nation. This is a huge
issue that continues to grow,” the governor said while unveiling the campaign at the
state Capitol on Thursday. “This is not a conservative issue, it’s not a liberal issue. It’s
an American issue. It’s a parent issue.” https://socialemotionalpaws.com/blog-post-
1/f/utah-governor-unveils-education-campaign-warning-of-social-media-2
AB-638 Mental Health Services Act: early intervention and prevention programs.(2021-
2022)
AB 638, Quirk-Silva. Mental Health Services Act: early intervention and prevention
programs.
Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initiative measure enacted by
the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election,
establishes the continuously appropriated Mental Health Services Fund to fund various
county mental health programs and requires counties to spend those funds on mental
health services, as specified.
The MHSA requires counties to establish a program designed to prevent mental illnesses
from becoming severe and disabling and authorizes counties to use funds designated for
prevention and early intervention to broaden the provision of those community-based
mental health services by adding prevention and early intervention services or activities.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB638
And: I Changed My Mind About Kids and Phones. I Hope Everyone Else Does, Too.
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On the issue of kids, smartphones, and social media, a vibe shift is happening, and it’s
happening on the left, right, and in the center. Here’s a survey of recent anti-phone
discourse on the topic in politics and culture in recent weeks and months: The TikTok
“ban” (don’t call it that) garnered bipartisan support in the House, and Gov. Ron DeSantis
signed a bill making it illegal for people under 14 to have social media accounts in
Florida.
“People are so unwilling to blame iPhones as one of the main culprits in a variety of
social ills but graphs like \[these\] are revealing. It’s obviously the phones,” zillennial
writer Magdalene Taylor tweeted, semi-virally, attaching that infamous “teens today
aren’t hanging out” graph. Hosts of two podcasts enjoyed by Very Online left-ish
millennials, TrueAnon and Time to Say Goodbye, devoted episodes to making
freewheeling arguments against the use of social media by kids.
(Tyler Austin Harper, a professor at Bates who has written for Slate, even suggested on
the latter show that smartphones should be made illegal for use by people under 18.
Tyler! A take!) A trend piece in the Daily Beast uncovered interviewees from Gen Z who
said that when they had kids, they certainly wouldn’t be letting them be “raised by”
iPads. “Get offline. It is not alcohol, it is not porn, it is not weed, it is not blah blah, it is
being online. Get offline,” wrote a Reddit user on
Not so long ago, the default position, if one were an internet-savvy older person
beginning to feel queasy when noticing groups of kids bent over their phones, was to say
to oneself, “Well, that’s life; once, Socrates feared print’s effect on memory, and now, I
fear this.” One definitely didn’t say out loud, online, “The kids shouldn’t have phones,”
unless one were writing for the Atlantic. A weary “it has always been thus” pose toward
the topic was in order—television, Walkmans, rock music, the youths are always up to
something the adults think is stupid. Some of the resistance to wagging a finger at kids
and phones was a totally fair allergy to generational analysis; another part of it was
probably self-defense.
“Some of us really don’t like our screen time habits criticized,” Taylor wrote in a follow-
up Substack analyzing the replies to her recent “it’s the phones” provocation on X.
“Others may think they appear smarter by highlighting other issues, that they can see
above the fray and observe the macro trends that are really shaping our lives, not that
stupid anti-phone rhetoric we hear from the Boomers.” It’s not the phones; it’s the lack of
third spaces, the omnipresent car culture, the inequality. That defensive pose? I know it
well, because I was adept at it—in 2019 I described concern over teens and social media
as “alarmist.”
Things are different in 2024. Yes, we have new data on the shape of the mental-health
crisis among teens, and especially teenage girls, and how it’s worsened since phones got
front-facing cameras and platforms became dominant. But the biggest shift doesn’t come
from looking at new data; it’s from experience. More and more people have a boomer
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relative who was radicalized on Facebook, a grandma who won’t look up from her phone
during family visits, or a Gen X partner adept at the art of phubbing.
We, who are supposed to enjoy grown-adult levels of impulse control, have had trouble
sleeping due to doomscrolling, spent Zoom meetings looking at Instagram, or gotten into
weird fights with strangers on Reddit that derailed us emotionally for far too long. We,
ourselves, with our developed brains, have felt like flies on sticky paper when it comes
to social media; of course, children, still forming their selves and navigating the pitfalls
of pre-adulthood, may be affected by it too. “Kids probably shouldn’t have smartphones”
has lost its generational sting. It has come to look more and more like common sense.
Into this apparently promising moment comes social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new
book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic
of Mental Illness. Its compact thesis: We’ve overprotected kids IRL and under protected
them online. In the book’s first chapters, Haidt rearticulates a very familiar set of
arguments about American kids’ lack of physical freedom. Playgrounds used to be more
dangerous! Kids used to roam the woods! Why is everyone always at scheduled activities
run by adults?
! The kids never get a bruise or bump, and how will they learn to self-regulate this way?
None of this will be new to anyone who’s kept up with popular parenting books in the
past few decades. Haidt’s innovation lies in connecting this now-well-articulated picture
of overprotected childhood with what happens when those same kids get on phones. The
Anxious Generation, he hopes, will be part of a larger collective movement, one he is
actively trying to incite by publishing a companion website full of evidence, discussion
guides, and sample petitions, and funding billboards and public art in major cities. On his
Substack, he wrote recently: “By the end of 2025, we will roll back the phone-based
childhood.”
Its critical that we all become informed about social media effects we seeing the
growing news stories reporting children’s effective their behavior my website blog will
take you years of research documentation what ought should been done waring the harm
the toxic Esports had we accepted that Bill Gate, Steve Jobs were avoiding this
modernize that Clery keenly aware the harm yet ego’s subverted to be first without
verifying what was published such as CA ACR 265 K-12 education year 2019 for modern
California Computer Science Education Month.
This measure would designate the month of September 2018 as California Computer
Science Education Month. The measure would encourage schools, teachers, researchers,
universities, business leaders, and policymakers to identify mechanisms for teachers to
receive cutting-edge professional development to provide sustainable learning
experiences in computer science education and would encourage the exposure of pupils
to computer science concepts. The measure would also encourage opportunities to be
provided for females and underrepresented minorities in computer science. Bill Text - ACR-
265 California Computer Science Education Month.
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Designates the month of September 2018 as California Computer Science Education
Month and encourages schools, teachers, researchers, universities, business leaders,
and policymakers to identify mechanisms for teachers to receive cutting-edge
professional development to provide sustainable learning experiences in computer
science education.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative findings:
201720180ACR265_Assembly Floor Analysis (1).pdf
1) California Computer Science Education Month highlights the crucial role that
computer science plays in transforming our society, and also highlights how
computer science enables innovation and creates economic opportunities. 2) Computing
technology is an integral part of modern culture, and is transforming
how people interact with each other and the world around them.3) Computer science
builds students' computational, critical thinking, and deeper
learning skills, which enables them to understand and create, and not simply use, the
next generation of technological tools
201720180ACR265_Senate Floor Analyses (2).pdf
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Please not description in this bill about the risk with screentime with blue light
and those support this harm.
Thank You
Craig A. Durfey
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