From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban
From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37300843
Kids spend far too much time in school on their phones. This is simply true.
Counter point to this tho: Kids go to school knowing a shooting can happen at any time and need to have their phones for if that happens.
I can't support restricting phones before we restrict firearms.
I'm assuming firearms are also restricted in NYC schools.
Yeah but the thing with mass shooters is that they don't give a fuck what the law says.
Maybe tell teachers to teach better ?? Especially math & science teachers.
Why don't they just have rules like we did years ago. Have your phone out in class and you get a lunch detention, next time a detention, 3rd time sent to the office with a recommendation for suspension.
Kids have to learn to be responsible.... They will have their phone on them everywhere else in life, like work. Learning to be responsible about it seems like education.
How do students having phones help in a shooting?
Calling/texting 911
Letting authorities know where they and/or the shooter is in the building
Even filming and documenting it is important after cunts like Alex Jones convinced an entire political party that all school shootings are fake, Jewish and Illuminati psyops to take away their guns.
Is this a serious question? Replace "shooting" with any other emergency.
Calling / reaching out for help is the obvious one, but sadly being able to get their last words out to family is also a consideration.
you’re joking right?
Calling police, calling parents, etc.
It's nice to be able to call your parents when you're bleeding out in the school atrium.
Kids learning to avoid government control and setting up covert communication seems like a very important lesson later in life these days.
"the distribution of 350,000 internet-enabled Chromebooks, part of the city’s effort to replace aging devices obtained during the pandemic, and ensure that all students have access to technology in schools even as their personal devices are banned."
Yeah, force kids to give all their data to the one company that is doing such a great job at securing it.
WTF?
My concern is just how disposable and unrepairable Chromebooks are. So much e-waste generated every 2-3 years.
Ewaste == corporate profits.
Yes take away the one tool that is basically required for modern adult life.
Just wondering, in your own words, what demographic is this article is discussing?
*required by capitalism for "modern" life. Literally no one actually needs a phone. But samsung and apple do need to keep their slave labor producing products for consumers.
It's a fair point.
Phones REALLY enable stupidity amongst, like.... everyone though.
I'm not sure if there's a middle ground or what it would be.
So they're treating kids like prisoners?
Fences, rigid schedule, forced interactions, institutional food, mindlessly boring, mandatory attendance I'm going to do a Foucault and say yes.
My understanding is that prison is waaaay worse. Needlessly cruel, you might say
Keep that kind of talk in the yard where they aren't listening so close.
Decks of cards are usually banned in schools. The schools consider card games to be gambling (even if there are no stakes) and that's not permitted on school premesis.
Yeah I remember in highschool trying to play MTG with some friends during study hall and having one of the monitors come over and tell us no card games were allowed because of gambling, except go-fish apparently? Idk why go-fish would be less possible to gamble on, but...
"usually"?
Not where I'm from (which isn't NYC)
I grew up in the American public school system during pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards peak popularity. There were a whole lot of people who had card decks confiscated under such rules. I've lived in several states and while I don't know the policies for everyone state I've lived in's public schools, I do know that the school's my son has attended also have such rules.
So I guess YMMV.
Yup. I was surprised to read about card playing too. You couldn’t play cards 20++ years ago. Mine got confiscated :(((
These phone pouches confuse me. They open with a simple magnet. Do they think kids don't have access to magnets?
Just throw some water on them - that shuts 'em right down.
I mean, most probably don’t. Realistically
Soliman said students sometimes physically leave the building and go out into the courtyard for a phone break to play games or check messages during free periods or lunch. “The benches are always full,” Soliman said.
JFC, kids, you make smoking look like an easy habit to kick.
Just wait until they learn about 'zines. They're like scrolling TikTok, but written down, like for literate people. /s
Your comment is like the embodiment of one of those "Kids don't know how to swipe a book like an iPad" boomerslop comics
Added /s since that's apparently want obvious
That'd be an interesting turn of events - phone bans leading to a zine Renaissance among young people.
Don't see it happening, but it'd be kinda cool.
Settle down, grandpa. The world will spin another day if kids enjoy their free period a little bit.
Said in sarcasm. I figured the author intentionally wrote that passage to evoke the image of miners on a smoke break or something.
I honestly love this
Yeah... I would walk right tf out of there.