These people are supposed to be experts in child development.
Completely irresponsible for the school to be encouraging 11 year olds to have smart phones.
All studies about this are still too recent to have reached your common school. Teachers fall exactly in the age span of people that can’t let go of their phones in an almost unhealthy way and probably were pretty excited, when they found this game online - to share with the kids.
That’s just my impression though
IANAL OR AP NOR AE
Ap nor ae?
Gonna guess,
not a lawyer, a parent, nor an educator.
Is probably what the abbreviations are for, given the context.
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Most teachers are aware how bad smartphones are, at least from the surveys I’ve seen. They’re more skeptical of them than parents or children. I think this case is kind of an outlier.
Fund education properly. That includes technology for students.
They offered her a laptop which would just single her out more.
Provide everyone laptops, or provide phones (tablets) for everyone.
I’m surprised everyone having laptops and using them for school isn’t standard. It’s been standard when I was in school here in Norway a decade ago
My freshman year of HS my tiny ass school (maybe 60 kids) all got iPads for the year
28 were broken, most smashed somehow, by the end of the year (I knew the IT guy outside of school and was shocked at this)
I’m not surprised at all given how poor many districts are/must be
I find school issued devices problematic personally.
The school gets to monitor your kids constantly and they control what gets censored. Not to mention it can stigmatized low income families.
Ms Lewis said she began to feel “pressure” on parents to buy smartphones as her daughter left primary school, but decided not to over fears about how it might affect Ava’s mental health.
Capitalism has brainwashed people.
11? That is definitely too early.
It is reasonable with the proper setup and restrictions. Giving them unrestricted access to it all the time is problematic. It becomes straight up harmful when you throw in addictive and social apps.
My parents didn’t get me a phone until after they forgot to pick me up from school and I was left there for three hours. And even then it was a fliphone.
Honestly phones themselves aren’t the big issue. The problem is the software. I wish we had a stronger push to get kids F-droid and AOSP. While they aren’t perfect, the apps on F-droid should not exploit your kids.
Also web filtering
