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Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'

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Re: Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'

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Post by kibwen »

corporate_pie wrote: post #231
kibwen wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slowing down the dopamine feedback loop works. Many impulses that lead to distraction are automatic, not conscious. Ever closed a Hacker News tab just for your fingers to immediately re-type the URL into the bar and hit enter? There are browser extensions that delay loading pages on a given site for a number of seconds, to cut off that sort of automatic behavior, and they work as long as the delay to load the site is…

>> just for your fingers to immediately re-type the URL into the bar and hit enter? No. That sounds pretty effed up.

Yes, it's extremely effed up, and it's a common condition among people who compulsively use websites to distract themselves.

Re: Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'

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Post by godelski »

heavygrit wrote: post #240
godelski wrote: post #230

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Usually no. If you missed multiple yeah, but mostly they didn't care. Though they started to my senior year. You'd get detention or even suspension if you did it too much. It was especially problematic with us in the AP/IB programs. My older sibling's class (AP/IB) ditched so much it was messing with the state attendance records. But maybe they didn't call because we were in the advanced programs. The people ditching…

guess I'm glad you're not in charge of this shit. I can't even tell what lousy point you're trying to make under all this. Going to school doesn't matter? Skipping is easy, everybody should do it? it's good to pull the wool over your parent's eyes? > messing with the state attendance records whut? At a basic level parental controls exist for a reason. I didn't make these products. Using them isn't the same as trackin…

I think you've really misinterpreted my comments. I was more pointing out that the parent's assumptions were not accurate. Something it seems we agree on!

I'm in no way suggesting people ditch school nor that school is useless. This is a gross misinterpretation of my comment.

Since you're new here I want to stress that part of the HN culture is to respond to people in good faith. If you think someone's comment sounds outlandish, there's a good chance you've misinterpreted. Please see the guidelines, several of your comments are out of line with the guidelines here. You don't have to agree, but you do need to treat everyone as acting in good faith and not make assumptions about trolling

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  > Calling attentive parents names on the internet is stupid
You will find that I have done no such thing
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