It just requires adults to have a spine. Unfortunately, the majority of them don't. Plenty of schools in Texas don't allow them, so at least we know where most of the backbone is.
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It’s more than that… you have to invade kids privacy to really enforce this. Never works- kids will find a way to get around it.
No you don't. You require that phones are off during the school day. If they are caught using them they have consequences. My kid has never had his accessible during the school day ever. It is locked.
Also, there isn't a kid in America paying for the phone. Teens shouldn't presume to have privacy with something that doesn't belong to them.
That’s your right as a parent, to do things the way you want to do them.
You’re saying you want the government to enforce your way of doing things on all other parents? You do realize you’re on Nostr right?
I am saying that phones are terrible for teens. We know that screen time is detrimental to brain development and attention span. Social media increases anxiety and dopamine levels. This isn't about my morality. It's about responsible adults not allowing something harmful in the very environment where it can do the most damage.
Schools have rules for a reason. Or should they just allow every kind of disruption because of govt? Should we let people whose brains aren't fully developed make the rules?
I totally agree with you about the impact of the technology on young people.
I don’t think this is the answer though. But you know what? I don’t have kids. So my opinion is not as valid as yours. God bless.
You don't have to have kids to have an opinion on this. You just have to decide whether you want kids to become people who can do more than work at a Starbucks. It's pretty straight-forward. Personally, I would recommend people not send their kids to govt schools at all. Whatever damage occurs as a result isn't fair to the kids.
The phone can also be an incredible social and learning tool if used properly. Are kids not capable of using them like that?
The problem is that kids have a hard time with self-control. Accessing a device that is loaded up with dopamine traps and not actually launching those programs is part of what creates anxiety. They know things are being said, and they can't handle being so close and not getting their fix. It's similar to addiction. It's better that they use computers that have specific programs. Interestingly, since most kids don't access their social networks on computers, they have a different view of their use cases.