New study shows that restricting kids access to social media in school has no impact on their mental health or wellbeing.

This doesn’t help kids. It’s just yet another moral panic.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(25)00003-1/fulltext

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Australia is not a serious country.

Kids always find a way to cheat. Maybe that's why there's no effect 😄

🙃 You know what? I remember being told that if someone was able to create a proper cheat sheet before an exam, it meant that they had at least sifted through most of the stuff. Regardless of whether you used it or not....

i doubt it

I think mobile use is just like reading was in the middle ages, tv watching was in about 50 years ago, PC usage 30-35 years ago. New generation can't imagine the life w/o internet and mobile gadgets.

Their social behaviour depends on the electronic commnication, rather than real life socialization.

This is strange for us, denying is not a solution. Even it is worse because you also can't communicate with your children, don't know where your children are, etc.

Personal experience.

Have you only read the Interpretation on page 1?

Page 14 is much more informative...

-> Compositional Whole

-> Balance

-> Wider Holistic Approach

-> 24h-model of movement behaviours

(not only eye movement on a tiny screen)

-> In-Tandem Consideration

(of both in-school and outside of school)

"In the design of new guidelines and interventions, phone and media use could be approached as part of a ‘compositional whole’, whereby phone/media time guidance focuses on obtaining the ‘right balance’ be-tween time spent on devices and other daily lifestyle behaviours. "

Phones on school also help finding out about bad teachers.

There's a lot of videos of teachers talking about how xyz government is better and their parents are bad.

Teaching trans agenda to 7 years old

Beating children

...

I think this is something best left to the parents, and not the government. It really doesn't make a lot of sense for the government to be the police on this issue.