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[quote=Anonymous]I have no issue with (and actually approve of) phone bans, but the argument that “we handled communications just fine without cell phones” is silly. We handled communications just fine because no one else had phones either. No one’s afterschool job was trying to reach them to see if they could pick up an extra shift today or tell them they didn’t need to show up because things are slow. No one’s kid brother was texting asking to be picked up from a friend’s house instead of baseball practice. No one’s friend group was trying to coordinate lunch plans on the fly in a group chat. None of these things are emergencies or a reason not to have cell phone bans, but “communications” simply looked very different and had very different expectations of access than the world today. The way we did or did not handle things is really not relevant anymore, in very, very many aspects of life. [/quote]
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