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Should students have cellphones in class? Indiana just said no — with a few exceptions (www.wishtv.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by redfox@infosec.pub to c/indiana@midwest.social

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Indiana just passed legislation to require schools to ban phones.

They permit them for health reasons, emergencies, when part of lesson, and when part of a formal plan.

I personally don't like the idea of schools requiring locking them up. What would you do in that emergency they mentioned?

Why should kids not be able to use them at lunch?

If you want to control your kid's phone time, there's already apps for that.

Edit: additional comment from a teacher: she said the phone restrictions aren't going to be as effective as one would think with all the kids having watches with data plans. Dude...

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have relatives in Texas this statement applies to, and it's outrageous. You can certainly email your legislative representatives and tell them how uneducated people have a harder time contributing to society...

But don’t you see? When these kinds of people make the most ideal Republican electorate possible, this outcome is their objective!!

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, I believe in the idea of home schooling isn't flawed, but if there's no schooling part, that's a problem. There should probably be some testing checks along the way.to ensure they at least meet the public school levels of STEM.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Un-schoolers already have better outcomes than public school kids. Leave them alone.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Un-schoolers typically have better outcomes than public-school kids, and you are confusing them for the products of religious schools. No one who thinks as you are inferring is going to give their kids any intellectual freedom.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Homeschooled children are consistently the least educated and least prepared for the modern world, including our capitalist-slavery system of indentured (be profitable to someone else or die) employment. The vast majority of them will either slide into extreme poverty or will never be able to extricate themselves from it.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

"Consistently" ... show your homework. Everything I'm seeing shows the opposite.