Kids are online because interaction in person has become increasingly difficult. School should probably only take up half or less of the current amount of time it does, of course kids are going to be doomscrolling while waiting out the clock to go home like we do at work.

We can give them dumb phones, if we also close off most roads so no cars are allowed on them, and stop assigning homework, and stop treating school like a day care prison, and allow loitering.

All the things that enabled kids to be kids instead of miniature adults before we started blaming phones for these problems.

That would be great, for children to foster a sense of freedom and independence in their society.

But I don’t think we are ready for having the real conversations