Hold up just a bit. It has little to do with infringing on someone’s rights and more to do with ensuring our children have the best learning environment we can provide them. You can argue workplace rights in a separate argument. Children do not NEED these devices. Parents do not NEED their children to have them.
Am I the old fogey here? Do y’all not see how these devices are a detriment to their learning experience?
There’s a very vocal subset on Lemmy who think that any issue children have must be the parents/teachers fault, and that no blanket rules should exist. It’s weird.
If you own a pocket sized computer than you should be able to use it when ever you want.
It’s not an extreme overstep, but as we can literally see right now in this thread, it normalizes the loss of rights.
There’s another solution to banning phones without needing to ban phones; Fund our school properly so that our children get the attention and proper classrooms that they need. Of course it’s easier to ban phones in classrooms of 30 - 50, because then they don’t need to actually pay the teachers to care, or provide the resources necessary for creating a productive classroom.
Politicians are mad that kids have access to information like “it’s OK to be gay” and “the Gaza genocide is wrong” so they’re pulling every lever they can to remove that free access. Schools are already prison like environments where vague unproven “it’s for education” can be asserted, so they are. So.it the freaky surveillance they’re doing now. Are microphones in the bathroom “ensuring our children have the best learning environment” because they’re doing that in Beverly hills now
I can see why you are pushing back, but I can also see their point of view:
In several schools I visited the children do not have their phones banned or taken away. They simply don’t use them, as they are engaged and have expectations set by their teachers to respect the classroom and their peers. Admittedly these are small classrooms, about 8 to 12 to a teacher with a lot of engagement.
But it shows that children can learn when it’s appropriate or not, without a blanket ban.
Similarly, if you are an adult and expected to perform at your work, do they need to treat you like a child and ban or restrict things?
Whoa, those are small class sizes, an ex-teacher friend had 20+ grade schoolers (6-8 iirc) to manage, most were underprivileged but still had phones and spent classes goofing off on them, even though the school and my friend had set rules stating phones were not allowed during class.
I would have to check, but I don’t think phones arent allowed. Its just that the kids are occupied with each other and engaged so they don’t use them.
I think that speaks volumes about the education system.
Oh and just because we are challenging norms: all three schools have implemented gender neutral bathrooms. They all have private floor to ceiling stalls with a common sink area that is open to the hall way. Extremely visible common area, extremely private single occupancy do your business area. They have had zero issues.
Hold up just a bit. It has little to do with infringing on someone’s rights and more to do with ensuring our children have the best learning environment we can provide them. You can argue workplace rights in a separate argument. Children do not NEED these devices. Parents do not NEED their children to have them.
Am I the old fogey here? Do y’all not see how these devices are a detriment to their learning experience?
Don’t worry, you’re right.
There’s a very vocal subset on Lemmy who think that any issue children have must be the parents/teachers fault, and that no blanket rules should exist. It’s weird.
The funny thing is the schools are the parent while the child is there.
We’re reacting to extreem oversteps aginst rights which are numerous these days
Children not being allowed to have a phone in class isn’t an extreme overstep against rights.
Access to a pocket size computer whenever you want isn’t an unalienable right.
If you own a pocket sized computer than you should be able to use it when ever you want.
It’s not an extreme overstep, but as we can literally see right now in this thread, it normalizes the loss of rights.
There’s another solution to banning phones without needing to ban phones; Fund our school properly so that our children get the attention and proper classrooms that they need. Of course it’s easier to ban phones in classrooms of 30 - 50, because then they don’t need to actually pay the teachers to care, or provide the resources necessary for creating a productive classroom.
Politicians are mad that kids have access to information like “it’s OK to be gay” and “the Gaza genocide is wrong” so they’re pulling every lever they can to remove that free access. Schools are already prison like environments where vague unproven “it’s for education” can be asserted, so they are. So.it the freaky surveillance they’re doing now. Are microphones in the bathroom “ensuring our children have the best learning environment” because they’re doing that in Beverly hills now
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I can see why you are pushing back, but I can also see their point of view:
In several schools I visited the children do not have their phones banned or taken away. They simply don’t use them, as they are engaged and have expectations set by their teachers to respect the classroom and their peers. Admittedly these are small classrooms, about 8 to 12 to a teacher with a lot of engagement.
But it shows that children can learn when it’s appropriate or not, without a blanket ban.
Similarly, if you are an adult and expected to perform at your work, do they need to treat you like a child and ban or restrict things?
Whoa, those are small class sizes, an ex-teacher friend had 20+ grade schoolers (6-8 iirc) to manage, most were underprivileged but still had phones and spent classes goofing off on them, even though the school and my friend had set rules stating phones were not allowed during class.
I would have to check, but I don’t think phones arent allowed. Its just that the kids are occupied with each other and engaged so they don’t use them.
I think that speaks volumes about the education system.
Oh and just because we are challenging norms: all three schools have implemented gender neutral bathrooms. They all have private floor to ceiling stalls with a common sink area that is open to the hall way. Extremely visible common area, extremely private single occupancy do your business area. They have had zero issues.
I like that bathroom idea, private is private, washing your hands doesn’t need to be private though (IMO obv.)