Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban

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Post by hammock » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 7:46 PM UTC

Minnesota middle school students 'seem happy' after cellphone ban
newsnationnow.com

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Post by mensetmanusman » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

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

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Post by ilikeitdark » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 9:13 PM UTC

A group of students and teachers in Barcelona are trying for a mobile phone ban as well.

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Post by johnea » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 9:45 PM UTC

That article sucked 8-/

Just repeating the headline doesn't make an article, it is literaly 3 sentences long...

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Post by wavemode » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

The news here for me is that grade schools nowadays are allowing phone use in the first place

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Post by jjulius » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

johnea wrote: post #4

That article sucked 8-/ Just repeating the headline doesn't make an article, it is literaly 3 sentences long...

>Just repeating the headline doesn't make an article, it is literaly 3 sentences long...

This makes it sound like you only read the three bullet points underneath the headline and didn't bother scrolling further, down to the parts where the middle school principal discusses the policy (aka, the actual article).

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Post by christkv » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 10:16 PM UTC

ilikeitdark wrote: post #3

A group of students and teachers in Barcelona are trying for a mobile phone ban as well.

Our school in Oviedo (co-operative run school) has a no phones policy and it's great. No peer pressure since everyone is in the same boat.

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Post by ABeeSea » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 10:28 PM UTC

Schools should just be allowed to have cell jammers.

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Post by lukev » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

I'm a little surprised this is newsworthy... this is already the policy at my kid's middle school (NC public schools.)

Is it that uncommon? I get that it's probably harder to enforce into the upper grades...

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Post by bonestamp2 » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 10:34 PM UTC

mensetmanusman wrote: post #2

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

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?