• roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 minutes

    Sounds good, we should let kids drink and smoke pot then right. You can drive a car at any age, any age person can buy cigarettes. No more age restrictions on games and movies…

    Staff at schools are adults, many of which are responsible for the lives of other living humans. The critics must all have the maturity of school children.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1 hour

    I’m sorry, is there a massive problem of adult teachers and staff at school being constantly glued to and distracted by their phones such that it prevents them from teaching and doing what they are otherwise there to do?

    No?

    … Maybe the critics can ask ChatGPT what a false equivalence is.

    We had early smart phones back I was in high school.

    We also had this rule.

    Its fine.

    If its not fine, you have an addiction problem, and should seek help.

  • Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    Sure, we give the kids alcohol, let them drive, let them vote- wait we don’t!? What do you mean there’s always been these kinds of differences!?

    • Miller@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 hour

      I wonder if some of those critics are by an odd coincidence funded by phone related entities.

  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1 hour

    If the kids don’t have their phone how will they broadcast the next school shooting to their followers or ask ChatGPT what the best hiding spot is nearby?

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    Yes, we have different rules for kids and adults. Does anyone want to argue that we shouldn’t? Really? Let’s hear it.

    I take it the argument that kids need their phones to be safe at school has been completely debunked? Otherwise, they’d use that one, like parents have since this whole fiasco started.

    To anyone old enough to remember when schools didn’t allow personal phones, because they didn’t exist, the idea that they should be allowed is ludicrous. Same for allowing food, or chit-chat, or kids to get up and wander around the class during instruction, or all the other stupid shit that goes on now in schools, from what I’ve read.

  • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    It’s not about role modeling. It’s about learning and attention spans.

    • imahappyguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      With that in mind, take them from the adults too lol. I know some adults who are chronically online

  • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 hours

    Adults are more responsible than children. Responsibility comes with privileges.

  • CanIFishHere@lemmy.caEnglish
    1 hour

    You mean the kids will habe to interact at lunch time? This will be a net benefit to them.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    sooooo apply the same rules to the adults? here’s my old man yells at cloud moment but you don’t need your cell phone in school. I got through my entire schooling without one, teachers didn’t have one. if there was an emergency or you needed to make a call well that’s what the front office was for.

    I mean hell in high school kids just had pagers and if a teacher caught you looking at it during class they’d just take it away.

    • anomalousvandal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 hour

      Things can literally go back to this with zero negative consequences. The only parents that are upset about this are the ones with deeply co-dependent relationships with their kids. My wife is a teacher and when her school briefly had kids put their phones in pouches, a lot of her students told her they felt relief from feeling like they have to check their phone constantly. This ban will help with teacher burnout too. Teachers spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to get their students to put their phones away. It should have been put into law years ago. Also, the teachers don’t have time to check their phone during class, so the comment about role modeling is complete bullshit.

  • bryndos@fedia.io
    2 hours

    I turn my phone off , or at least, don’t answer it when I’m getting paid to do something else.

    Are ‘critics’’ in conntucut defrauding their employers, or do they just not have real jobs?

    • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2 hours

      lol this has to be bait. Employee wage theft is highest theft by a long shot.

      • bryndos@fedia.io
        2 hours

        Not at all. I believe in organised collective bargaining/protest, not random acts of irreverence. Being unprofessional and as lackadaisical the bosses just gives them excuses to sack you.

        If you’re going to strike, get a fucking picket, and make them bosses know it. Don’t just wank around on your phone and prove that you can be replaced by AI, or an empty chair.

        Also, I’m quite adequately compensated for my current job, it’s more the band 3,or 4’s that I’d need to go on strike for. If my union wasn’t a useless bunch of cunts.