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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why did they allow them in?

  I remember we weren’t allowed to and our phones weren’t even as capable.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fucking pagers were going to end teen life, shortly after Beavis and Butthead were going to ruin America’s youth. Then actual horrific data from teen phone use shows up and nothing happens because the Christian right is too busy focusing on people’s junk and banning books to raise hell about phones

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right? I remember if you got caught messing with it or it even making noise during class, the teacher took it and you picked it up from the office at the end of the day.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Overly concerned parents want their kid to always carry a phone/tracking device.

    I’m sure Life360 parents played a not-so-small part in that decision.

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    • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The biggest contributing factor was 9/11. My school had 3 pay phones for 1600 students. When 9/11 happened it was chaos. Tons of teachers were letting students use their cell phones (of they had one) so kids could call their parents, and no me had a problem with anyone that had a phone pulling it out of their bag to use it. It felt like almost overnight half the school had a new cell phone that no teacher cared about.

      School shootings have just been a continuation of the fact that parents want to know their kids are okay at any given moment.

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  • androogee@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just guessing that stories of kids trapped in classrooms during school shootings had something to do with it.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a tough choice, right? Do we want our kids to be independent and capable during emergencies or do we want them tightly controlled and incommunicado at their desks?

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• julysfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t quite understand why this is still a thing? Back when I was in school in the late 2000s, phones were banned. Couldn’t even bring it out even if you were going to use it as a calculator. Immediate 3 hour detection if you were seen with one. I got one for calling my mother to pick me up because I needed to go to the doctor.

  I don’t understand how between now and then, the rules seemed to lax.

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You haven’t really spent any time near a school system have you? I don’t even refer to them as parental units anymore, they are just banshees. These awful horrible screaming demons that want you to raise their kid but also never discipline them.

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    • julysfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope I have not. I don’t have kids. I have heard your comment said by many other teachers around too. I don’t understand how it got to be like this. If people really don’t want the responsibility, time, money, emotional and physical investments of raising kids, they shouldn’t be having them.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got in trouble for trying to use a payphone to call my mother to pick me up on a day when they cancelled school after it started due to worsening ice conditions. I didn’t have permission to use the phone and my teacher got on my ass. It was unfair and made me mad.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They want kids to be completely dependent and controllable.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand how between now and then, the rules seemed to lax.

    Power of unions. Can’t suspend everyone.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because smart phones are a more normalized piece of technology that (most) people have and use extremely often.

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They have been banned for over a year where I live. I guess the people pushing back against this policy are just completely ignorant of the issue. Smartphones are incredibly addicting by design and, aside from the academic problem, exposing developing brains to such devices 24/7 is just a really bad idea. Having a space where children and their peers can be smartphone-free for several hours a day, several days a a week, should be seen as a positive thing.

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  • n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not the smartphones themselves are addictive, but all these annoying social apps, advertisements and notifications are.

    There are ways around this. Kids should learn how to use their phones for managing their lives.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Smartphones are incredibly addicting by design

    lmao. My phone is literally not addictive.

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    • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing you said changes the fact that smartphones are designed to be addictive and that many people, particularly children, are addicted to them. Designers literally use the same techniques as casinos to develop addictive behaviours in the user.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which smartphone do you have?

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• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m glad phones weren’t banned when I was still in school but it would’ve been better for me if they were. I think this is one of those things where we need an authority to prevent us from doing something that’s bad for us because we’re not going to do it ourselves. It’s equivalent to mom telling you to eat your vegetables.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before phones, students were distracted by fidget toys, tamagochi, bubble gum, various collectibles, comic books, ordinary books, paper notes, drawing, pen twitching, etc.etc.

  Students always find ways to get distracted. Take away everything and they’ll still be rocking on the chair.

  So if the purpose of banning distractions is to make students more attentive, well… it’s just not going to do that.

  Then there is online bullying. Has bullying actually increased or are we just seeing it more, because it’s now documented? Banning phones in school won’t stop it from happening outside school hours anyway.

  I’m not advocating for allowing phones in schools during lectures or anything, but it’s pretty clear to me that an outright ban is an outdated solution that will only hide the issues instead of solving them.

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  • reliv3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The smartphone is a different beast. Hardware and software companies spent millions of dollars of R&D to create the most psychologically addicting and attention demanding device as possible.

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    May I gently ask if you have children in the phone age range?

    I have never seen anything with such a hold over teenagers.

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    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s absolutely crack. My nephew and niece is 7 and 4, they don’t watch a lot of tv and aren’t allowed on the phone a lot, but when they are it’s fucking crazy. They don’t even have to do anything on it. When he was 5 and his friend was also 5, we had a Christmas family party. My phone was on the table and it blinked. No joke, they were like zombies, starring my phone down. He reached for it and i told him not to touch it. Their fingers kept moving on their own, and all they could to is stt the time, yet that was the most interesting thing in the universe to them. They were unable to not touch it.

      When they are allowed on the phone for like 15 minutes all they do is to watch the biggest most meaningless garbage i can imagine. They would pick looking at a phone over pretty much anything. Before my sister had kids i would always think the whole ipad kids thing is blown out of proportion and i would teach them things with it, because after all, it is a useful tool. Not anymore, fuck that. I feel bad for ipad kids, i can only imagine the brain rot.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have children, including a teen, and they have phones.

      One thing I do notice is that they’re quite a lot better at putting the phone away when they’re with friends doing stuff or at family dinners than their grandparents who keeps checking notifications and answering calls regardless of when and where.

      They grew up with phones and they have a much better understanding of when it’s socially acceptable to use it.

      They know not use the phone during class, so there’s really no good reason to ban it entirely.

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some drugs are just stronger than the others.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Phones are literally not drugs.

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  • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not advocating for allowing phones in schools during lectures or anything, but it’s pretty clear to me that an outright ban is an outdated solution that will only hide the issues instead of solving them.

    While I don’t disagree, social media is the problem and what are schools going to do about that, except for banning phones? You also can’t compare getting distracted by a pen or piece of paper, to a phone with bright colours and notifications, specifically designed to be as addicting as possible

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Social media is a problem for sure.

      Also, thank you for asking what schools are supposed to do.

      The problem is schools not managing to encouraging pupils towards learning.

      I know I’ve said this before, but the teachers curse is that nothing is taught until the pupil understands it themselves, and is willing to absorb the material put in front of them. Encouraging pupils to want to learn ought to be top priority for any school. Banning phones is a lost cause, because they’re already lost at that point. They’re bored, so they rock on the chair or fiddle with a phone. I seriously don’t think that social media addiction is the core issue here. It’s an issue for sure, but it’s not what is keeping kids from learning. Boredom is.

      Regardless of technology, paying attention is entirely up to their own willingness to learn. Teachers should be feeding the desire to learn, not in a “fellow kids” kind of way, but by showing them why the curriculum is important to them.

      I totally acknowledge that there’s no reason to have a phone in class and that social media is bad, but it’s relevant not issue in teaching.

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  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sorry, but there’s a wildly huge difference between bubble gum/collectibles/comic books and internet connected cell phones.

    I was terrible at paying attention in class, but I always made it through by hearing just enough to get by… until I was in my final year of college when some of the classes got internet connected desktops at every desk. In normal classes I’d be fine, but in the classes with a computer where I could IM with friends I failed miserably (literally went from straight A’s to C’s and a couple F’s in college classes because of internet connected computers being in front of me all the time). And that was a desktop with only a couple friends I knew who also had IM on at the time. I can’t imagine how poorly I would have done at school if every one of my friends had messaging on every minute of every day, not to mention mobile gaming and social media.

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  • psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Outright bans are because government bodies are scared of nuance. You can also see this in “zero-tolerance” policies that do things like punish the victim because they were “involved” in a fight, or punish a kid who nibbles a chicken nugget into the shape of a gun.

    To be fair to schools, nuance is hard. Suppose that the rule is “phones may not interrupt class.” Now, what counts as an interruption may vary between classes, between teachers, and based on what’s happening in class. A student may use it during a quiet period in the class when they’ve already completed their work, and that’s acceptable. A different student will then use their phone ten minutes later, when they’re supposed to be doing something. The second student will get in trouble, but then complain that the first student didn’t get in trouble. The parent will hear, “Brayden was using his phone and he didn’t get in trouble but the second I used mine, I got in trouble. The teacher has it out for me.”

    If you’ve talked to any teachers in the past few decades, a common theme is parents siding with their kids against all logic, reason, and evidence. They’ll assume that teachers are petty goblins, just looking for an excuse to pick on their kid. And parents can be outright hostile and unreasonable. When my wife was a teacher, she received more than one actual death threat from parents because she enforced rules that did NOT have any nuance or discretion. Imagine if enforcing the rule was up to the teacher’s discretion versus an outright ban.

    tl;dr I agree that a ban is silly, but I totally get why schools are doing it.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think there is a difference.

    Yeah, the tamagotchi are games, but they are a game in the singular sense.

    All the things you mention as distractions except the food items are contained in one phone multiple times over. Heck, you could probably even find a bubblegum chewing app.

    That’s the distraction potential contained in one phone.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hide the issues instead of solving them.

    And thats really all they care about.

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• TheBigBrother@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Society used to believe drugs are bad, and then invented smartphones.

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here in Europe many schools are doing this too. As a father of an (almost) teenger, I’m they are.

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Got two teenagers. I’d outlaw smart phones for anyone under 18 if it was up to me. Bring the flame!

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I strongly disagree, this should be a decision for parents to make, no need to get the law involved. However, schools can and should have a policy that phones need to be off (or at least silenced, no vibrate) during class, and they can check it if excused to go to the restroom or something. But I would never agree to a law banning access to phones for minors, that’s a violation of parental discretion.

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    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We got our oldest a smart phone a few years ago. Based on that experience, our younger two can buy their own smartphones when they’re adults because we’ve decided we’re not going to repeat that mistake.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, you’re right.

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• ArchRecord@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Banning phones in schools needs to be done very cautiously.

  In my high school, one of my teachers had one of the best cell phone policies I’d experienced, which was simply, if you had your phone out, she’d just say “hey, what are you doing on your phone right now?” It didn’t matter what exactly it was, and there was no judgement passed, but it kept us engaged if we got too distracted, encouraged us to find and share interesting new topics over just doomscrolling, and led to some legitimately informative and valuable conversations.

  Other classes would let you use your phone after you got your work done, which acted more as an incentive for completing your work, rather than something you had to sneak in between the teacher talking.

  That said, my high school was a competency-based school, which changed the incentives for self-governance of the learning process compared to traditional high school. And of course, it was high school, where most students had better self control.

  That might say more about the state of education than the dynamics of phone use in the classroom, but I do feel like schools often try to make students conform to the system as their almost exclusive goal, rather than making the system work for the student, and thus, harsh anti-phone policies aimed at increasing attention in the classroom actually just make students even more angry at the system of schooling, and less likely to enjoy the process of education as a whole.

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  • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have mixed feelings. “Because I said so” can get compliance in high school, but that’s mostly it. It’s not going to be that effective. At the same time, a lot of this overly permissive parenting seems like a reaction by people who are upset about being told no as kids and that will lead to problems, especially once they get into places that don’t care about constantly trying to have a debate back and fourth.

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• DBT@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t wanna click. Too easy to cheat?

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The article is about how smartphones have made people lazy. So incredibly lazy that some people aren’t even reading short articles from reputable sources, but are instead using smartphones to write comments on the internet begging strangers to summarize things for them.

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    • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was brutal.

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    • Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, people are just better at prioritizing.

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    • DBT@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ha! Funny.

      I made this 5 second comment just before bed, so it wasn’t so much being lazy, but not having time to click on anything else before calling it a night.

      And it worked out because someone else was kind enough to give me a TL;DR and I got to bed on time.

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  • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems to be a combination of students too distracted playing on their phones and difficulty policing behavior on social media bleeding into school time. They give an example of students filming a student being bullied on school grounds and the video being uploaded and shared on social media. I’m not sure banning smart phones during school hours is the right solution, but it’s certainly a tricky problem to deal with.

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• FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  in elementary and middle school sure. but in high school I probably would have gone insane without my phone. my friends dropped out and moved away so by junior year I was all alone and had only my internet friends. never clicked with the neurotypicals.

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  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you couldn’t communicate with those friends after school and on weekends?

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I assume by “moved away” they meant to somewhere further than they could feasibly travel as a highschooler.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Schools are literally prisons. No phones allowed.

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  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    agreed

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• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Build a Faraday cage into the walls so that only wired connections will work. Boom, no bans required. Actual necessary calls go through the office landlines, like they did in the 1990s. (Probably impractical, especially given the refit required for existing buildings.)

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  • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can think of an America specific reason to not block all communication with the outside world in a school. Even if every room has a wired landline that worked and was accessible to students and teachers

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s because you lack the political will to fix the actual problem, which isn’t an issue anywhere else in the world and has absolutely nothing to do with communications.

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  • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are still windows, assume they are in classroom. There are RF blocking windows but those are quite expensive, and lose function as soon as you open it for airflow.

    Better is to grant schools to setup cell towers, with web filtering and scheduling enabled. Like how Stingray works to spoof cell towers.

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do make RF blocking paint, but it’s very expensive and I have no idea if it would be enough to fully block microwave signals.

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• umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The paywall free link is instead captcha walled.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do the audio captcha. The image captcha never works for me, especially over VPN.

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• raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, not being able to communicate during a school shooting is a deal breaker for me.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The first ever argument for allowing cellphones in classrooms that even remotely has some merit and of course its for a uniquely disturbing and America only problem.

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