Riley Green, Co Wetzel, Shabuzy and so many more at DFW's premier three-day barbecue and country music festival right outside AT&T stadium. Lone Star Smokeout is back April 24 through 26. Get tickets now at LoneStarsMokeout.com. I don't want to hear the whining. I do not want to hear the whining. I don't want to hear the complaining. I don't. They actually get something done for the kids in Topeka. They do something bipartisan and you've got whining and moaning, especially from people in Johnson County public schools, mostly administrators. So we talked about this last week when it passed, bipartisan measure passing that is a bell to bell cell phone ban in the state of Kansas. And this has been universally applauded by regular people all across the state. And by the way, Kansas, as reported yesterday by KCTV five is now one of only four states in the nation to earn an A grade for banning student cell phone use throughout the entire school day. Four organizations announced yesterday that Kansas has achieved the top ranking to their phone free schools state report card. These organizations include the anxious generation movement, smartphone free childhood US and the Institute for Families and Technology. Governor Kelly signed the bill. It was sponsored by Republican Senator Chase Blasey and Democratic Senator Dina Sykes out of Lenexa. And it got done in the state of Kansas. I think it's the biggest win in Topeka. Not that there have been a lot of big wins unless you're Clark Hunt, but it's been the biggest win in Topeka for regular people and parents this year, not even close. All right, so we should all be celebrating this. Instead, you have pieces like this from Channel 41, headlined school leaders raise budget concerns over a Kansas cell phone ban. You gotta be kidding me. I mean, this is this is right right where they want to go to is we're going to need some money for that. We're going to need a few more dollars to make this work. Here's what they're saying. Blue Valley School Superintendent Jillian Chapman told Channel 41 she's not against limiting distractions, but that a one size fits all statewide policy ignores what is already working locally. We have a policy in place that works really well that does not cost us valuable resources. The Blue Valley Superintendent is concerned that the new law will require the district to use already limited funding and resources to create ways to collect and store devices for hundreds or even thousands of students. Because the mandate comes without government funding, the costs will fall directly on the schools. Cry me a freaking river. My goodness. They have no self awareness. They have none. They are so caught up in their little bubbles that they can't see the forest through the trees, man, for a second. They have no ability to do it. All you have to do is figure out how to get the phones out of the kids hands when they get into school and get out of school. And guess what? Yeah, I looked it up on the KansasOpenGov.org website. I mean, they've got at the Blue Valley School District alone. Several dozen employees make $150,000 a year. Take one of them, put them in charge of a room where the cell phones are stored, and then figure out a way to get them back to the kids at the end of the school day. That's it. Need a place to store them? Just keep them in your pocket, kid. Well, no, you got to give them up. You got to give them up. That's the point. Well, I mean, you're just not supposed to use them in general. No, no, no. You got to unload them somewhere. Unfortunately, you have to do that, I guess, right? I got a bunch of chewy boxes from the cat food I get every two weeks that are piling up in my house. We can store them in my chewy. That's yes. That's what I mean. Each class gets its own chewy box. Okay. Yeah. You walk into school, you throw them in the boxes and you pick them up at the end of the day. And you put a couple of administrators in charge of the room where the cell phones are to make sure no one's stealing phones. That's it. I mean, I know I'm oversimplifying this, but I'm doing it to make a point here. These school districts that are just whining about, oh boy, the cell phone plan. How are we going to fund this whole thing? I'm looking at the numbers here. Okay. You've got a lot of highly paid administrators who probably have a little bit of free time in their day to help figure out how to make this work. And instead of saying, wow, you know what, even if you already have a policy like this, it's great that the state of Kansas does something for the kids to get the phones out of their hands during the day. And now, by the way, you don't have to listen to the mother who insists that her kid have their phone on them all day complain. You can say it's state law, ma'am. I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do about it. You can now, I don't want to say hide behind state law, but you can justify good policy by now using state law instead of having some crazy mom yelling at the poor secretary in the school district. This is fantastic news. And if you're immediate reaction, if you're an administrator, and I mean, I don't know what the Blue Valley superintendent's making, she's new this year. I know the last superintendent, Tonya Merrigan, was clearing 440 grand a year, which, you know, whatever, God bless her. This is America. But you look at the Blue Valley School District and do not tell me you don't have the resources for something. I'd nobody wants to hear that. Okay. Everybody's property taxes are to the moon right now. And a lot of that's going to you and to have the balls to go on and talk on local TV about not having the resources for something in Blue Valley. My goodness, the audacity from some of these people is truly disgusting. Unbelievable. With that, we wrap up a tie rate Tuesday. Yeah, I guess we extended tie rate Tuesday this morning. I just bonus round. I just oh my gosh, that just really just ticks me off. It really does. I'm getting pissed out. Riley Green, co Wetzel, Shabuzy and so many more at DFW's premier three day barbecue and country music festival right outside AT&T Stadium. Lone Star smoke out is back April 24 through 26. Get tickets now at Lone Star smoke out.com. Hey there, I'm Paula Pan. I help people make the smartest money decisions possible. Joe, you know what's been great about being a saver for money in the bank and that money over the past couple of years has made a pretty good yield. Pre pandemic money was making zero. Now it's actually making something, but that's starting to go down, down, down. I love how we can play the fact that inflation has been really high as a positive. But if you're a saver, you know what that means to change. Silver lining, Joe. Afford anything. 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