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> I believe kids can be taught how to interact with technology responsibly. A school cannot do this while doing all the other stuff they have to do, and you do
by corrral 4y ago
> I believe kids can be taught how to interact with technology responsibly.
A school cannot do this while doing all the other stuff they have to do, and you don't get to teach your kids' peers not to do horrible things with their devices.
AFAI am concerned teaching them responsible use would include teaching them that a smartphone has no place in school. Shit, they never let us carry dumb phones and it was only near the end we could even keep them in our lockers, and that was the right decision. I don't think they let our predecessors carry Electronic Football around at school, either, and that was also the right call, despite those devices posing ~no danger and being about 1% as disruptive as a smartphone.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoMany middle schools have uniforms for a similar reasons. "Learning to dress appropriately" is not considered to be more important than avoiding its distractions.