Comment on Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?
ahornsirup@feddit.org 4 months agoAnd the kids that are this brazenly disrespectful and disruptive would be disrespectful and disruptive without phones too. Most kids aren’t though, no matter how much alarmist media wants them to be. It’s a good old fashioned moral panic. Punish the actual wrongdoers, leave the test of the kids alone.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
I don’t think wanting kids to pay attention in school is alarmist panic, to me your comment is more inflammatory than the post. Whether they should do it for just classes or not, or if they should take a punishment first approach can be debated, but out of all media and journalism, this is not alarmist.
ahornsirup@feddit.org 4 months ago
And most kids already do. People have been complaining about “kids today” for literally thousands of years. Probably longer, we just don’t have records of it. There have always been troublemakers, and there always will be. People have been blaming everything from literature to TV to music to video games to, nowadays, phones. This, too, will blow over, and it’ll be fine.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
People have also been making choice and being actively involved in raising kids for thousands of years. Imposing rules on kids is part of normal human life.