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Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by zo1 » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 10:10 AM UTC

71bw wrote: post #76

I really get the feeling that all of this exists so that you can excuse yourself out of your son's school life.

There a big difference between being an involved and active parent, and what the schools expect, which is for parents to be little secretarial-assistants and pseudo-teachers to make up for the school's lack of planning, lack of engagement with the students and lack of funding.

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by arrowsmith » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 10:41 AM UTC

crooked-v wrote: post #112

aftbit wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got my phone taken away in high school once because my dad called me during the lunch hour to ask me for a number on an insurance card that was in my wallet. I was sitting outside eating, answered the call, read him the number, and hung up. About thirty seconds later, a teacher came outside, took my phone away, and gave me a detention. I wasn't disrupting class or distracting myself at all. This was on a dumb phone…

The US completely gave up on the idea of actually stopping school shootings, so parents now only feel comfortable if they can contact their children 24/7.

Smartphones are ubiquitous in schools outside the US too.

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by TRiG_Ireland » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 12:45 PM UTC

mfld wrote: post #11

jeroenhd wrote: post #8

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This is hardly new. My high school did this over fifteen years ago. This app just shows hour+subject+teacher+room number. Quite useful on days the hours/rooms get switched around because a teacher is on leave. Your paper planner won't inform you that your first hour is in another building tomorrow or that the teacher is ill (and yes, the schedules would change less than 12 hours in advance). It's hardly comparable. A…

Good points. However unlocking the phone in the morning puts my son on the wrong track: you would be surprised how much time one can spend checking animated gifs by using any text field that will inevitably be unlocked as well. Of course I will take full responsibility in case of bugs... So far it didn't happen.

It's not just kids. It would put me on the wrong track too.

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by aftbit » Thu, Dec 19, 2024, 11:04 PM UTC

crooked-v wrote: post #112

aftbit wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got my phone taken away in high school once because my dad called me during the lunch hour to ask me for a number on an insurance card that was in my wallet. I was sitting outside eating, answered the call, read him the number, and hung up. About thirty seconds later, a teacher came outside, took my phone away, and gave me a detention. I wasn't disrupting class or distracting myself at all. This was on a dumb phone…

The US completely gave up on the idea of actually stopping school shootings, so parents now only feel comfortable if they can contact their children 24/7.

Yeah I dunno if I buy that explanation, for reasons given in both of the sibling comments. I think it's more likely that students are dopamine-addicted to their phones and don't know how to exercise the necessary self control, and parents and teachers are unwilling or unable to do it for them.

It makes DARE from the 90s feel even more surreal than it already did when I lived through it as a student. Kids, don't do drugs, but it is okay to become dependent on technology.