The UN agency said that even being close to a smartphone has been linked with students being distracted in the classroom, which in turn causes poorer student performances.
  • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    What a stupid and pointless endeavor. First, if the class is not engaging, then students will find a way to be distracted. Regardless of whether they have a phone or not. Second, students will absolutely be clever little shits and smuggle their phones into school.

    • SuiXi3D@kbin.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      I used to get in trouble for doodling instead of listening to the teacher. So yeah, it won’t matter in the slightest.

  • DRx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    How do you tell you parents goodbye when the next massacre hits though?

  • ppb1701@kbin.social
    21·
    11 months ago

    @fne8w2ah. When I was a kid, toys, whatnots, etc could be taken by the teacher to be returned when they saw fit or off to the office and whenever the principal decided. I’d assume the same rules would apply to a smartphone.

    • zaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Parents tend to care significantly less about a $20 toy than a $700+ smartphone.

      • bjornp_@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Meh leave it home then. That worked fine when I was in school until phones became widespread

        • zaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          And that’s the real answer for how to handle phones in schools. Someone else said leave it home but I’m a single parent of a special needs child, he’s taking his phone to school and the school can eat my ass if they don’t like it. Never had a problem.