WaPo: Students can’t get off their phones. Schools have had enough.

[Anonymous]

People should stop obsessing over the phone. This is an issue for individuals to work out themselves. If some kid wants to daydream or watch TikTok videos instead of paying attention in class, it's really not the school's problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People should stop obsessing over the phone. This is an issue for individuals to work out themselves. If some kid wants to daydream or watch TikTok videos instead of paying attention in class, it's really not the school's problem.

Good point! It's like starting a thread 20 years ago complaining that schools have had enough of daydreaming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People should stop obsessing over the phone. This is an issue for individuals to work out themselves. If some kid wants to daydream or watch TikTok videos instead of paying attention in class, it's really not the school's problem.

Good point! It's like starting a thread 20 years ago complaining that schools have had enough of daydreaming.

Not really

Everyone complains about the schools doing a bad job teaching kids - so let them impose some control

Don’t make their job impossible by sending kids in to school with something tailor made to distract them and monopolize their attention

[Anonymous]

Enough already with the phones in schools! Sign our new petition to support a full-on culture shift in DMV schools. It's gotta happen to get our kids back on track: https://www.change.org/p/phone-free-dmv-schoo...cation=psf_petitions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People should stop obsessing over the phone. This is an issue for individuals to work out themselves. If some kid wants to daydream or watch TikTok videos instead of paying attention in class, it's really not the school's problem.

Except a kid daydreaming in class distracts no one else, but a kid watching TikTok videos on their phone can be hugely distracting even for students who are engaged and want to learn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People should stop obsessing over the phone. This is an issue for individuals to work out themselves. If some kid wants to daydream or watch TikTok videos instead of paying attention in class, it's really not the school's problem.

Good point! It's like starting a thread 20 years ago complaining that schools have had enough of daydreaming.

It's a terrible point that reflects extremely lazy thinking (if I'm being charitable and assuming either your or the PP's posts were made in good faith, though I suspect you're actually just trolling).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These people need to lighten up. Who cares if they use phones? Seriously, it'll be fine.

Did you forget the sarcasm tag? Go to the teachers subreddit if you genuinely hold this opinion. It is not based on reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People should stop obsessing over the phone. This is an issue for individuals to work out themselves. If some kid wants to daydream or watch TikTok videos instead of paying attention in class, it's really not the school's problem.

Except a kid daydreaming in class distracts no one else, but a kid watching TikTok videos on their phone can be hugely distracting even for students who are engaged and want to learn.

+1 The two are totally different.

[Anonymous]

Its the teachers problem as they will be harrassed by admin and targeted as a bad classroom manager

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These people need to lighten up. Who cares if they use phones? Seriously, it'll be fine.

Did you forget the sarcasm tag? Go to the teachers subreddit if you genuinely hold this opinion. It is not based on reality.

You do know teens find these threads and post, right?

[Anonymous]

Schools should teach a class on self-discipline. The problem is the phones are designed to be addictive. Kids are just doing what they are supposed to do: imitate the behavior of their parents. Adults can't do things anymore the old-fashioned way-everything has to be done with an app now. The solution should be from the top down, targeting the companies that make phones.

[Anonymous]

"...Schools have had enough...." whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People should stop obsessing over the phone. This is an issue for individuals to work out themselves. If some kid wants to daydream or watch TikTok videos instead of paying attention in class, it's really not the school's problem.

Good point! It's like starting a thread 20 years ago complaining that schools have had enough of daydreaming.

It’s not just that kids are “daydreaming” or “watching videos.” All too often they’re making videos of classmates, staff and teachers, posting inflammatory things on social media that lead to fights and worse, and participating in other problematic behaviors that very much become “the school’s problem.”

[Anonymous]

Parents' fault. No phones to kids unless GPA is 3.5 or higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Comic books are ruining the youth of today. Also too, rock and roll music.

Obviously you're a student who thinks they know the 1950s-1970s from movies.