They where in NL though, you just wheren’t allowed to have them in class. But a lot of people here cycle to school and sometimes though roads that aren’t that safe so in that case it was handy to have a mobile phone to call with.
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oh_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am shocked they allowed them in school tbh. They were not allowed at school for millennials. Granted phones were new but all the flip phones and such were not allowed at schools.
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FallenGrove@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was super shocked when I saw kids using their phones and laptops in class. When I was in school, the moment your phone went off it was confiscated and you had to pay to get it back at the end of the day. It created this culture amongst the kids that no matter who you were, if your phone went off, people will have coughing fits and make noise to cover it up. Super funny every time it happened too.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Born on Europe on 1985. We never had a ban on phones (later “feature phones”). We couldn’t use them in class, same as the game boy, a comic or a Walkman.
Now schools force Chromebooks/ewaste with laughable restrictions.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m absolutely in favor of schools disallowing use of phones in class, but I’m against them being banned. If kids want to use them between classes, that’s fine, as long as they don’t use them in class.
natecox@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah, my state just enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on cell phones in schools for my kids. I absolutely support a ban on phones in class (so long as the school is providing necessary tech to educate with) but banning between class just ignores that phones are an important part of how kids socialize and ripping it away cold-turkey can’t be healthy.
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The fact that you used the term we usually use to describe quitting alcohol and cigarettes is probably a good sign that they should be banned.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Agree with this, but I don’t supply my kids with phones at all, despite their friends having them. If there’s an emergency, they can go to the office or ask their teacher. If that’s not possible, the school will likely call instead (e.g. when there was a bomb threat a could of couple years ago).
I have chosen to not give my kids phones, but I also think other parents should be allowed to choose differently. Everyone’s circumstances are different, and I don’t want the government stepping in to make parenting decisions for me, even if my decisions would be the same. That’s overreach and I will absolutely oppose it.