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Lars Larson National Podcast 2026-04-10

April 11, 2026·1 hr 53 min·9 clips

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Should public schools digitally track every minute a student spends away from class and in the bathroom? That poll question drives this First Amendment Friday, and Lars treats it less like a tech story than a test of judgment. The phones are open. Naysayers are welcome, as he says they have been for almost 30 years. David takes the liability side. He says the school is responsible when a student leaves the classroom, so it needs a way to know where that student is. Lars keeps pulling the question back to scale. If the child is still inside the building, why does that call for an electronic tracking system? David tries a car analogy. Lars rejects it because driving to Walmart is a mile or more away. A bathroom trip is down the hall. David does land one fair point: if the teacher goes looking, the other 30 children are left alone. Lars hears it, then pushes the logic until it sounds absurd. Maybe every child gets a tracking device 24 hours a day. The joke has bite because it shows how far the safety argument can stretch. Around the debate, the show is still talk radio: liners, call-in numbers, email, the X poll, and a GhostBed read. The plain question is whether schools are solving a small supervision problem by turning kids into liability files.

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Lars Larson uses open-phone Friday to test school bathroom tracking against classroom supervision and liability concerns.

First Amendment Friday puts The Lars Larson Show into open-lines mode, with callers and emailers invited to push the host on whatever is bothering them.

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You get a live, caller-driven argument over whether public schools should digitally track bathroom breaks.

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