Summary
Cellphone bans in schools are gaining bipartisan momentum, with at least eight states, including California, Florida, and Virginia, enacting restrictions to combat classroom distractions and protect children’s mental health.
Governors from both parties, such as Arkansas’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders and California’s Gavin Newsom, support these measures, citing benefits of phone-free school days.
While some parents oppose bans, citing emergencies and transportation needs, proponents argue phones disrupt learning and may pose risks during crises.
States differ on implementation, from outright bans to district-level policies or funding for phone storage solutions.
The main beneficiaries of this will be bad or abusive teachers. How many videos have you seen of a teacher going on a racist rant or something? Now the kids will have no proof, and no way to shed light on the issue by posting it to social media.
Cell phones are essential kit these days that everyone carries and relies on. They should be integrated into the classroom. We’re supposed to be teaching these kids how to survive in this society, right?
That’s bullshit. If your system allows abusive teachers then the system is messed up. Also you’re telling me that beside school shootings, no healthcare they also have to look out after abusive teachers?
Great country my ass
I mean, they exist yeah. I’ve seen plenty of videos of a teacher going off the deep end, who were fired after the video went viral. Take away phones and we’re back to my childhood where nobody believed the students because they couldn’t provide proof.
What should’ve I expect from a country that votes for a mentally ill criminal. Guess History is bound to repeat again and again.
It’s a nice idea in theory but have you seen the world we live in? There’s always some abusive fucks looking to exploit whatever weaknesses there are in all of the systems we have.
I don’t agree with the other poster’s bit about integrating cell phones into the lessons themselves, but I do think they make a good point about a ban restricting students’ ability to expose abusers.
Though one way to get the best of both would be to put cameras in classrooms just like a lot of school busses do now. Eliminate or reduce the he said/she said as much as possible. It would also protect teachers from students that realize accusations on their own can be pretty powerful in environments that do want to prevent abuses and be good for kids who don’t have bad intentions but teachers might feel a need to keep them at arm’s length to avoid that situation.
It really sucks that positive relationships seem to be more rare these days because people are so fearful about either giving the impression of having a negative relationship and others can be quick to suspect closeness been adults and children has ulterior motives.
Cameras are an even worse idea.
Sure let’s record every single thing kids say and do in school on crappy government servers with piss security, oh and let parents see everything they do that way they can control everything they do and say. I’m sure that won’t cause any psychological problems.
Not that having cell phones all the time doesn’t potentially create psychological problems itself, even before social media is considered.
Though IMO the way to deal with controlling and abusive parents is to encourage kids to talk about their home life because parents like that will cause issues even without extra ammo of seeing what they kid says when they aren’t around.