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Eton bans smartphones for new pupils
- ChrisArchitect 2y ago[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908999
- ggm 2y agoThats ok, one can have one's fag do the needful, and tell you afterward what folk thought of your witticisms on X. Pater has a chap who does his socials, so I can too. Huzzah! Putting to one side my considered hatred of Eton and the establishment private school system, wierdly called "public" schools, This is actually a good thing and I think other schools, public and private, should do the same thing. And in fact, they do. Eton isn't the first here although handing out a Nokia brick is a cute move: the kids will learn how to play snake, and can do T9 keying, so it's like learning vi. (declaration: privately educated in Scotland at a merchant company school, not at this exhalted level: mine was founded 188 years after these other chaps in 1628)
- defrost 2y agoBeating the headmaster was a dreadful chore: https://youtu.be/dDjV9iKmT9k?t=84 https://youtu.be/dDjV9iKmT9k?t=84
- ggm 2y agohttps://archive.md/X1QMv https://archive.md/X1QMv
- mytailorisrich 2y agoMany schools, especially private schools, ban phones. Perhaps what's newsworthy is that Eton is a boarding school so might have extended this ban on smartphones to all hours...