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What is your opinion on the school phone ban in schools?

It's about time, say parents
cell phone stock
A person holding a cell phone in their hands.

Delta Optimist polled 438 Optimist readers and asked the question: Do you agree with B.C.'s school cellphone ban?

The poll ran from Aug. 27 to Sept. 3.

The full results are as follows:

Yes, it's about time 90.55% local, 86.99% total    
No, kids need their phones 1.57% local, 5.02% total    
On the fence 5.51% local, 5.71% total    
My kid doesn't own a cellphone 2.36% local, 2.28% total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Delta Optimist readers that are located in Ladner. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.64%, 19 times out of 20.

Delta Optimist uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.