la1ere.francetvinfo.fr
I can’t fathom school life these days. I finished school before smartphones, when the best pic you could take with your Nokia was a stamp-sized pixelated mess and you didn’t have internet access on your phone. Just how schools can regulate phones effectively is beyond me. Sounds like a Sisyphus task.
My sons school (In the UK), just before we moved, trialled a phone amnesty. They'd hand their phones in at the start of the day and get them back after school. It worked pretty well given a few teething problems, but the school was terrible in most things anyway.
I can’t fathom school life these days. I finished school before smartphones, when the best pic you could take with your Nokia was a stamp-sized pixelated mess and you didn’t have internet access on your phone. Just how schools can regulate phones effectively is beyond me. Sounds like a Sisyphus task.
That's so much easier to say than do though. My lad, thankfully, and down to us bringing him up with a modicum of a brain, hates social media and has never wanted to join it, he can see the brain rot it can be. Never had a problem in that regard, he's doing brilliant at school, wants to be a commercial pilot.
www.theguardian.com
But muh freedoms to shitpost!
21 and an aptitude test at the very least.
A little extreme, but I'll allow it.
Yeah, my niece is about to turn 9 and is already hooked on social media/tablets/Roblox. Her mom doesn't let her have a smartphone yet but many of her friends already have them.That's so much easier to say than do though. My lad, thankfully, and down to us bringing him up with a modicum of a brain, hates social media and has never wanted to join it, he can see the brain rot it can be. Never had a problem in that regard, he's doing brilliant at school, wants to be a commercial pilot.
My cousins daughter, the total opposite. She cannot live without it and her friends on it,
Not only is it harder to stop the torrent of sway on girls to be part of the 'in' crowd, they've cemented it as part of their culture, so to speak
It hasn't done her any favours. She isn't doing well at school, she Says how girls bully each other, etc etc. She's becoming a lost soul with no direction. And no dad either which I feel goes a long way too. No dad, mum's working a lot, where do you turn?
The phone. That can be true of both of male and females. They're both 14.
Well that was rambly
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's a societal issue that we're making it harder to get out of, and we love doing it so much that our kids are screwed.
That'd be the best scenario and would increase the IQ of future generations tenfold but here's the thing.
It's well established that schools are a place where the government has more control and jurisdiction over what goes in and out, due to the unique fact that they are in control of a bunch of minors for a huge part of the day.
I was going to say something similar in my post above but didnt bother.
Id say less than 1%. I think maybe 1 in 10k interactions on my cell are urgent.
If a kid needs to contact their parents they can go to the office and the school can hand them a phone to call them. That's how it was done before cell phones and nobody thought it was some grave injustice or massive problem.
That relies on a 3rd party to do so, and don't pretend all teachers or heads are perfect ,they are not, i don't agree, when my kids were at school i would want them to contact me directly if there is an issue, no reason why they can't have phones at lunchtime.
'Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.'
I was at school in the 70's and 80's, where teachers would abuse kids with corporal punishment, and some teachers did it for fun, i'm not a young un so i know full well what the decades were like and they wern't the same, they rightly banned hitting children in the end, yeah there is bad kids and yeah there is bad teachers, i don't agree with you mate, i don't think a school should have all the power, again i see no reason kids can't have their phones at lunchtime, that's my opinion.
I get it, but I'm just saying that you have to weight it all, is the 1 or 2 times a year max that a kid absolutely needs to contact his or her parent during school worth the negatives of having cell phones available to kids during school hours? Especially when there is a workable solution without them having it? Like if I was a kid, and I got sick, I went to the nurse and the nurse called my parents. Stuff like that. I don't think a secretary or nurse could get away with telling the kid to screw off like maybe they could in 1978.
Yeah, people are addicted to technology no doubt, and i'm on the internet most days, as i assume you are but does all out banning them work, or are the kids just going to ignore it and it will cause more problems than just limiting their use, what if the school has to deal with a lot of kids breaking the rules, and mass expulsion's follow with kids not a school, while still using their phones anyway, mass banning of a lot of things never works, it's like what is going on now with ads on Youtube, censoring of topics and certain sites etc, forced agenda, humans of all ages fight back, as they should, and the kids will, especially teenagers, i agree with teachers taking them before a lesson and returning them after as i thought it still was the policy. but FBH says otherwise.
