• CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I fully support this as long as they put the pay phones back in the schools so kids can call their parents when they need to

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      5 months ago

      A school shouldn’t make kids pay to call their legal guardian. Make phone calls free.

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        5 months ago

        Either way, there should some way to do it without having to go to the main office and ask to use their phone or something. When I was a kid we had payphones, back when it cost a dime.

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          4 months ago

          I’m sorry but just wondering here… Why would you need to phone home up to the point where you can’t be without a phone? I didn’t have phones in my school, never needed them either. A lot of people are acting as if not having phones will kill them where in reality, everyone will be just fine.

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            4 months ago

            Like when my kid is finished with his club after school and it’s raining and he’d like me to pick him up. Or he’s at school and realizes he forgot to take his medication. One time his bike was broken and he couldn’t ride it.

            I’m glad for you that you never once had a need to call home. I congratulate you. Some people do need to, and I just hope they have a way.

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              4 months ago

              You do understand that the entire world had those “problems” since forever until just only about 10 years ago or so? It wasn’t a life or death back then, it isn’t now.

              Sure, there are some limited life or death situations where a mobile phone is critical, none of what you describe is.

              Also I was talking about mobile phones in school. They are a deterrent to learning and must go, period. You don’t NEED a mobile phone at school. You take it with you? Put it in your locker.

              Kids having a medical emergency at school don’t need a mobile phone, they need teachers and school employees making sure an ambulance is on the way.

              Its Raining at a club? Well, I drive my bike home and get wet. I’m sorry but that isn’t going to kill you.

              Seriously, whats up with this generation to think that all these new shiny gadgets that they have are critical to life? They’re not. Never were.

              And no, I’m not some anti tech genezer. I grew up with computers, I was almost always ahead of everyone in tech, and now work as a CTO. I simply understand that people get way too worked up about their tech gadgets and moreover, I see the hurt mobile phones do to children, which is far greater than the imagined issues people come upmwith if they were without their phone

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      4 months ago

      Why would even that be necessary? It’s school, not jail or drug den…

      Kids survived fine without phones for millenia, I’m sure they can survive now. If there is a real emergency, then I’m sure some supervisor can make a call…

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          4 months ago

          Nothing.

          Im a normal person who grew up during the time that there were no mobile phones, and we got by just fine. Anyone arguing that its torture or dangerous to remove mobile.phones from school really need to calm down. It literally NEVER was an issue until literally the last 10 years of this worlds existence, you cannot come up with any argument that requires kids to have one.

          I can come up with a shit tonne of arguments why they shouldn’t have one, though