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let them have a simple communication device. they don't need tiktok and instagram in school.
by hanklazard 3y ago
let them have a simple communication device. they don't need tiktok and instagram in school.
- wnevets 3y agosocial media has proven indispensable during times of crisis in the past. No reason to handicap the kids when their school is being shot up.
- bart_spoon 3y agoYes, how can we forget the countless lives that were saved during school shootings thanks to ready access to Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok?
- prepend 3y agoThis is silly. TikTok is not indispensable during times of crisis. Neither is instagram. To make this claim you’d need some way to distinguish the value of TikTok vs just phone and messaging. But it’s definite that kids using TikTok in a class of 25-30 lowers performance. Schools have multiple problems (why 30 kids in a class) but phones make it even harder.
- wnevets 3y agoIf you want to deprive your child of a potentially life saving device be my guest but you don't get to impose such limitation on my family .
- prepend 3y ago[flagged]
- wnevets 3y ago> Statistically, a cell phone will do more harm to a child than a gun (comparing injury and death as a rate of gun ownership vs depression rates for kids with smartphones). To even suggest a child owning a gun is safer than a smart phone is in incredibly poor taste and a smack in the face of any parent who has lost a child to this crisis.
- prepend 3y ago[flagged]
- JonathanDnk 3y agoScroll up to see my reply above - law enforcement and security experts tend to say that children using their phones causing more harm than good during a crisis.