• justhach@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Right? Somehow schools survived until at least the 2010s without every kid having a cellphone in them at all times.

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      1 year ago

      No kidding. Not to sound like an old fogey but we did really well without them for both “emergencies” and “fact checking”. I can only see them primarily as a distraction.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it would suck for the staff, but I don’t think it would be that much more unsafe. I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I don’t think it’s particularly unsafe.

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      1 year ago

      Ban pocket calculators because the abacus exists. Lazy kids aren’t learning how to do arithmetic because of them.

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            1 year ago

            I 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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                Yes 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.