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I mean it kind of needs to be both. But it’s hard to find a compelling reason why kids need their smartphones fully accessible during class.
Schools should just be one huge faraday cage. Kids have to learn to focus and pay attention.
And they need to learn the curriculum
I mean I’m not that extreme lmao that’s also a safety issue. Kids will be kids, they will not sit quietly all school day and be total lesson sponges lol
Of course not, but I think we should at least act as if they should.
Knowing it’s not possible, though.
My kids are in 5th, 3rd and 1st grade. I wouldn’t want them on their phones during class as they grow up.
Like I said prior, I don’t think kids should be on their phones either.
No, but the attention span kids have these days seem to be shortening. Phones and the current state of social media intake doesn't help.
That said, a faraday cage is absolutely too far, but they don't need their phones when they should be focusing on the course.
I hear this a lot but have yet to see evidence/sources from anyone. It’s just “look around you.” I don’t find it particularly compelling. I didn’t exactly sit quietly as a kid myself.
How much of a safety issue would it really be? Cell phones didn't really become a thing for my age range until high school. If there was an emergency, there was a landline in the classrooms.
I don’t think y’all realize that not a single staff member or administrator or any employee of the school would be able to use a phone either (other than landlines I guess?). Schools aren’t just full of students lol
You mean that thing I specifically mentioned? Yes, I realize that. Would it be inconvenient? Yes, it absolutely would. Would it suck to work in that environment? Again, yes it would. If I'm just thinking about safety, I'm not sure it's that much more unsafe.
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sadfasfasdfsaBut is it? Landlines can make the same emergency calls. A Faraday cage also doesn't mean you can't have an internal wifi that reaches outside that the staff can connect to, or even the students can connect through with a proxy controlling their connection.
I agree it's impractical. But it doesn't mean laptops and phones suddenly don't work. They can still work within the cage and you can poke holes through it with a landline and a proxy to control traffic in and out.
Ultimately, it's definitely not worth the engineering and the effort. I just don't think that safety is the reason it is impractical.
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sadfasfasdfsaRight? Somehow schools survived until at least the 2010s without every kid having a cellphone in them at all times.
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sadfasfasdfsaThose were tools. Smart phones are a distraction for social media 99% of the time.
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sadfasfasdfsaI already did unpack it: "Smart phones are a distraction for social media 99% of the time."
Nor did I say the word "just". You're both ignoring what I did say and inserting your own words. They can be distractions with you know social media. But also back in my day they taught us Word, Excel, programming. You had a class with that. You didn't need it in your pocket 24/7.
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sadfasfasdfsaYes you can find a way to goof off in any class instead of doing your work. Isn't that the whole point of this discussion? To remove ways to goof off, you know, smartphones. Ban them in class. And just like you can catch people playing video games in computer class, you can catch people using their phone in class. Just because some people will break rules doesn't mean we throw our hands up and say ok then no rules.
You're really comparing this to teaching abstinence? Wow. And then you rage against something as basic as rules, blaming rules for what seems like everything you think is bad. Ok then. Cheers.
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sadfsafasdfBan pocket calculators because the abacus exists. Lazy kids aren't learning how to do arithmetic because of them.
Not all of us have the luxury of that ability
I have very little faith the person you’re responding to even acknowledges the existence of ADHD .
I mean, I'm doing quite well having gone though school without smart devices and 100% would have never gotten straight As if I had one when I was a kid. And I'm every type of ADHD you can be diagnosed as...
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