• originalucifer
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    236 months ago

    stupid. this will generate far more work and distraction than it hopes to prevent.

    • Hucklebee
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      6 months ago

      We have tests done in our schools in the Netherlands right now and the early results are that it has a positive effect. Students talk to eachother more, say they have more fun during breaks. Also that they can concentrate better on their schoolwork.

    • @SickofReddit@lemmy.world
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      286 months ago

      How? My first thought was this is good. Kids should have to be in the classroom when they’re in the classroom and not on the internet.

      • originalucifer
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        136 months ago

        they said it themselves, parents dont want this. I dont want this for my kids. so they will be fighting both the parents and the students for enforcement. theres going to be a constant tit for tat… administrative churn from enforcement of some stupid state law. what is or isnt a ‘simple device’.

        the reality is, this is a per-classroom thing plenty of teachers currently have a handle on. the teachers that do have a problem with phones just basket them as they walk in. the problem for phone distractions at the classroom level has been solved, per-teacher.

        you dont need special rules laws to send a disruptive internet surfing kid to the office.

        i dont want the state telling me my kid cant carry the device i gave them. they have plenty of real problems to solve.

        • @Montagge@lemmy.zip
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          166 months ago

          The article defines a simple device as a phone that can send texts but has no Internet access

          • DarthYoshiBoy
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            16 months ago

            My kids have child phones on Google Fi which allows me to shut down their Internet with a couple of button presses. Are they simple devices if I geofence their internet access off while they’re in school? I somehow doubt it, but it does meet the definition as you’ve stated it, which in turn means it is as @originalucifer said, not exactly cut and dry.