Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban

daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fences, rigid schedule, forced interactions, institutional food, mindlessly boring, I’m going to do a Foucault and say yes.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As if school wasn’t already a prison with all the metal detectors and xray machines.

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  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What school has metal detectors and xray machines?!?

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like, most of the US

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      • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Eh, I know US-bashing is really popular here, but it has to be at least a little bit believable to be funny.

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    • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I knew people from bigger cities that had metal detectors in the mid-aughts. I think they’re wider spread now, but I don’t know much about schools now. Not sure about X-ray machines, never heard about those in a school.

      In the sticks, we don’t have any of the machines. The textbooks are usually older than the pupils too and a lot of the stuff is in poor repair, so it may be an issue of funding.

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• _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My understanding is that prison is waaaay worse. Needlessly cruel, you might say

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• Infinite@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Keep that kind of talk in the yard where they aren’t listening so close.

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