Excellent. Brain rot due to smartphone addiction and unhealthy apps is serious.
Is this part of the “No phones in exchange for no homework” trial, or just a straight up “no phones” trial?
I’m expecting smartphones to be heavily restricted for under-16s in the long considering these school restrictions and social media restrictions for children as well as widespread support for these policies. We’ve seen this in Australia, Denmark and now coming to the UK.
I wonder how this will affect 16/17 year old voters
That’ll be an interesting change for students and teachers!
My school was phone free, that definitely stopped a single person /s
Oh my first job too
Our primary school does this. Students have “smart watches” kind of things where they can receive calls and messages from parents, I think there is some sort of socialising between themselves too.
For primary schools it’s definitely a good thing. I only have to look as far as my 10 year old niece (in another country) who “absolutely had to” get an fairly new iPhone because otherwise she’d be not bullied per se, but would not be with the “cool kids”.
This makes me happy.
Not planning on having kids for at least 5 years, but I’ve always seen iPads/Smartphones as an absolute minefield.
You either be a great parent and resist, albeit come off as a bit of a bastard to your children. Or you cave and raise yet another TikTok obsessed zoomer that doesn’t live in the real world.
Well done Barnet. Well done you parents out there holding off as long as possible giving your young kids phones and tablets before they get addicted.
Back when I was in secondary, if we were caught with smartphones, we’d get detentions and our phones confiscated for the rest of the term. What schools in their minds would allow students to use smartphones on the premises in the first place?
thats great 🙂 barnets got good people makes sense theyre doing smth like this
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Yeah if only I could join them. I managed for about 14 days last month. Started reading. Absolute bliss.
Although im still pro the idea of this, I thought this article was quite useful in noting that the benefits aren’t actually as huge as they seem:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8plvqv60lo.amp
Just need phones banned from everywhere else now
Excellent. Brain rot due to smartphone addiction and unhealthy apps is serious.
Is this part of the “No phones in exchange for no homework” trial, or just a straight up “no phones” trial?
I’m expecting smartphones to be heavily restricted for under-16s in the long considering these school restrictions and social media restrictions for children as well as widespread support for these policies. We’ve seen this in Australia, Denmark and now coming to the UK.
I wonder how this will affect 16/17 year old voters
That’ll be an interesting change for students and teachers!
My school was phone free, that definitely stopped a single person /s
Oh my first job too
Our primary school does this. Students have “smart watches” kind of things where they can receive calls and messages from parents, I think there is some sort of socialising between themselves too.
For primary schools it’s definitely a good thing. I only have to look as far as my 10 year old niece (in another country) who “absolutely had to” get an fairly new iPhone because otherwise she’d be not bullied per se, but would not be with the “cool kids”.
This makes me happy.
Not planning on having kids for at least 5 years, but I’ve always seen iPads/Smartphones as an absolute minefield.
You either be a great parent and resist, albeit come off as a bit of a bastard to your children. Or you cave and raise yet another TikTok obsessed zoomer that doesn’t live in the real world.
Well done Barnet. Well done you parents out there holding off as long as possible giving your young kids phones and tablets before they get addicted.
Back when I was in secondary, if we were caught with smartphones, we’d get detentions and our phones confiscated for the rest of the term. What schools in their minds would allow students to use smartphones on the premises in the first place?
thats great 🙂 barnets got good people makes sense theyre doing smth like this
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