• 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    That’s great and all, but you have to remember that your anecdotal evidence may not represent the majority. In this case, enough of the country is noticing a problem.

    My teen chooses not to take his phone to school because he knows it’ll distract him. But the stuff he tells me happens at school with phones blows my mind. It’s amazing half of the entire class isn’t failing tremendously.

    The county has had to become more lenient on kids’ grades that want to join sports teams because otherwise they wouldn’t have a team, it’s that bad.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I think you’re missing my point.

      I doubt the sports jocks use their phone during sports ball practice?

      Seems like a sports jock attention problem more than a phone availability problem.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      45·
      3 months ago

      Your anecdotes and your kid’s anecdotes might not represent reality either. But somehow y’all are (violently) banning phones for everybody.

      • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
        42·
        3 months ago

        Exactly.

        I’m surprised to see users on Lemmy being this dead set on banning stuff for kids just because "we tried nothing and it doesn’t work*

        Social media is bad, phones are bad, I get it, but banning is not the solution.

        Kids will grow up in a world with both social media and phones. IMO school should prepare them and be a practice ground for it, so they don’t make the same mistakes as we - the parents - did.

        Like posted elsewhere, my kids are better at it than I am. Banning phones is projection all the way.

        I’m perfectly fine with disallowing phones during class, but an outright ban is an extreme reaction completely missing the problematic issues and potentially making it worse.