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This has to be done by the school, there is not a critical mass of parents able to stop existing momentum.

bonestamp2 3y ago
Yep, we had a pact with the parents of my kids and several of them caved early and now we look like the bad guys. That's ok, sometimes we have to be the bad guys. Hopefully, like me and my parents, the child appreciates later in life why the parent did things a certain way. Obviously, we have explained to them why they can't have phones yet, but they don't agree of course. For when my kids do get phones, I want a way to disable social media in blocks for different mac addresses/different times. Anybody know of a device that I can bolt on to any network to add that functionality?
- srcreigh 3y ago
  Have you considered a pihole with a blocklist config which covers social media domains?
  - bonestamp2 3y ago
    That's a good idea. I had heard of the pihole but didn't know how configurable it is. I'll check that out, thanks!
- hammock 3y ago
  >we had a pact with the parents of my kids Interesting. I wonder if putting some money (charity, etc) or other skin in the game would increase compliance and how many parents would agree to that. I could see this working at a small private school
gnicholas 3y ago
There is the Wait Until Eighth campaign (though I personally think 9th makes much more sense, given the break between 8th and 9th grades. https://www.waituntil8th.org/ https://www.waituntil8th.org/
- klyrs 3y ago
  Sounds like you live in a place with middle schools. Our system goes straight from elementary 7th grade to high school 8th grade. I grew up with middle schools and think they make a lot more sense. That said, I'd rather a "wait until 18th"...
  - gnicholas 3y ago
    We have a mix of schools that start with K, 4th, or 6th and end with 8th. Where are you that high school starts with 8th grade? is that still called "freshman year"? I'm in California and have never seen a school like that.
    - klyrs 3y ago
      Well technically, we call it "grade 8" rather than "8th grade" (and that I slip up here is a tell that I'm a foreigner) and it's technically "secondary school" but I don't hear people call it that. High schoolers don't have cutsey names for the grades. They're just... in grade 8, in grade 12, etc. This is in Canada.
      - gnicholas 3y ago
        They don't refer to "senior year"? I don't think of that as cutesy at all — just descriptive. Do you refer to university by these 'cutesy' names? Or is it grade 13-16?
        klyrs 3y ago
        Caveat, my kid is still in elementary school, and I don't really interact with high schoolers yet. In my time in university here, I didn't hear that language being used. Wikipedia tells me that Canadians use "first year" to indicate its first year students, but "frosh week" is a thing. I did my undergrad in the US, though. Even there, if I ever heard somebody say "sophomore," it would have come from the mouth of a confused freshman.

Yep, we had a pact with the parents of my kids and several of them caved early and now we look like the bad guys. That's ok, sometimes we have to be the bad guys. Hopefully, like me and my parents, the child appreciates later in life why the parent did things a certain way. Obviously, we have explained to them why they can't have phones yet, but they don't agree of course. For when my kids do get phones, I want a way to disable social media in blocks for different mac addresses/different times. Anybody know of a device that I can bolt on to any network to add that functionality?

srcreigh 3y ago
Have you considered a pihole with a blocklist config which covers social media domains?
- bonestamp2 3y ago
  That's a good idea. I had heard of the pihole but didn't know how configurable it is. I'll check that out, thanks!
hammock 3y ago
>we had a pact with the parents of my kids Interesting. I wonder if putting some money (charity, etc) or other skin in the game would increase compliance and how many parents would agree to that. I could see this working at a small private school

gnicholas 3y ago

There is the Wait Until Eighth campaign (though I personally think 9th makes much more sense, given the break between 8th and 9th grades. https://www.waituntil8th.org/ https://www.waituntil8th.org/

klyrs 3y ago
Sounds like you live in a place with middle schools. Our system goes straight from elementary 7th grade to high school 8th grade. I grew up with middle schools and think they make a lot more sense. That said, I'd rather a "wait until 18th"...
- gnicholas 3y ago
  We have a mix of schools that start with K, 4th, or 6th and end with 8th. Where are you that high school starts with 8th grade? is that still called "freshman year"? I'm in California and have never seen a school like that.
  - klyrs 3y ago
    Well technically, we call it "grade 8" rather than "8th grade" (and that I slip up here is a tell that I'm a foreigner) and it's technically "secondary school" but I don't hear people call it that. High schoolers don't have cutsey names for the grades. They're just... in grade 8, in grade 12, etc. This is in Canada.
    - gnicholas 3y ago
      They don't refer to "senior year"? I don't think of that as cutesy at all — just descriptive. Do you refer to university by these 'cutesy' names? Or is it grade 13-16?
      - klyrs 3y ago
        Caveat, my kid is still in elementary school, and I don't really interact with high schoolers yet. In my time in university here, I didn't hear that language being used. Wikipedia tells me that Canadians use "first year" to indicate its first year students, but "frosh week" is a thing. I did my undergrad in the US, though. Even there, if I ever heard somebody say "sophomore," it would have come from the mouth of a confused freshman.