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[–] mountainbear49@programming.dev -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You sound like you think people have significant 'control' over 'kids' buying and consuming cannabis, alcohol, and cigarettes, etc. ... Kids already consume cannabis and alcohol and cigarettes etc. even though you pretend you 'don't let them' (threaten them) and harrass them. Prohibition from alcohol to cannabis, for example, has not reduced consumption, but rather reduced supply, increased prices, and decreased quality. Repression tells consumers you hide value on the other side of your unilateral decree. On the other hand, instead of a facsist authoritarian totalitarian approach of repression, in comparison, an approach with education, legalization and decriminalization has reduced prevalence of consumption of drugs, including amongst kids; for example, Portugal has decriminalized all drugs (in ~2001); they offer drug consumers education and treatment instead of incarceration and difficult to verify products from difficult to verify producers and sellers in dark places. But the big billionaire homicidal dealers (Merck, Pfizer, United Health Care, etc.) have a lot of monetary incentive of polluting media messaging with muddy murky moral panics like the ones you just put your discursive hands in today. That being said, kids should indeed get education on things like the importance of paying attention in lectures, doing their homework on schedule, secure use of technology, blockading attempts of the feudalist advertising industry of manipulating their opinions, blockading big tech from literally spying on them and selling their opinions and bodies left and right, etc. Fun fact: that problem (cell phone use in course rooms where course work (e.g. lectures and note writing) should occur) has also been having widespread occurence among 'adult' students in university courses.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 5 hours ago

When a school principal sits across a meeting table with me and starts spouting "we have absolute zero tolerance for _______ here, that just does not happen on MY campus." I know that further logical, reasoned, evidence based conversation is pointless, at this point it's about bargaining and threats - what do they want from me, what unpleasantness can convince them that I can do to them? Anything "for the kids" is just a lie, and a joke to them.