Opinion: The high price of the social media highlight reel
Erica May
Erica May is an emergency number professional (911) and works in public safety. She studied at the Naval Postgraduate Academy Center for Homeland Defense and Security and is a proud resident of South Memphis. Erica is a periodic contributor to The Daily Memphian.
“I am a proponent of the Shelby County’s school board’s decision to ban phones from school and wish it would have been done sooner.”
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