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Problem: bullying. Cheap solution that won't work, but they need to do something: take children's phones away.

• wmf 2y ago
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• zamadatix 2y ago
  Cyberbullying is mentioned a lot in this article but it's as the driver for previous set of rule changes around what happens to students who use cell phones in those situations. This new ban largely focuses on the general distraction phones cause, cyberbullying is at most just one small component in that.
• washadjeffmad 2y ago
  You're right in that it's both a modern challenge and one 30 years in need of addressing. The first girl I "dated" I met in an AOL chat in the 90s where I did what was later called negging. Five years later, my friends were on AIM and torturing each other and everyone they could get the handles of. A coworker recently told me her tween son had done the same to a classmate via Discord and whatever other socials kids use today, and unlike, or because of, how we grew up, his teachers were aware of it and called his parents. He spent the summer without Internet doing volunteer work until everyone was satisfied, and he's improved because of it. I don't believe in ubiquitous surveillance, but with the connectivity available today, parents need more options to parent. I think there need to be more options for phones without cameras, more accessible management, and ways to limit that so that there's local privacy for developing people to explore their personhood. Taking phones away isn't a bad way to start until we have that option.
  • washadjeffmad 2y ago
    Are the Pixel and iPhone launch teams trolling HN tonight? What's the obsession with camera phones for kids. They're problematic.