Friends with benefits high school? Where was this shit when I was a teen...
The Atlantic: Get Phones Out of Schools Now
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It’s school discipline. That’s 1-9. If we could get back to the point where verbal and physical assault of staff was zero tolerance, a lot more of us wouldn’t want to quit. It’s the constant abuse many really good people are subjected to constantly. The teaching environment is allowed to be ruined for the kids who actually want to learn. I just watched a group of junior high teachers completely on survival mode since March. Unless you’re in it and feel the disrespect they are subjected to you really can’t understand it. There just aren’t many jobs where you go to work and have to take that level of crap…because most work with adults who would get fired. Can’t fire the students and they know it.
10 is probably test scores but I don’t hear much complaining about them.
One of the best teachers I have ever known - worked with him the last 15 years - a math teacher- is applying for jobs this summer outside of teaching. “The behaviors are getting worse every year. There’s no way I can do another 16.” And we’re at a great school!!
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Suicide rates since the release of the first smart phone would say you’re probably right.
Sounds great until the lawsuits start. That’s probably the biggest reason districts’ hands are tied. The shithead families sue.
I’ve heard German foreign exchange students say the same thing. They are stunned by the behavior of American teenagers.
Yep. There’s a degree of respect that’s missing in the U.S.
Funny thing is my daughter wasn’t exactly the teachers favorite in Germany but she sure was at Fort Walton Beach High School. Several of her teachers went out of their way to tell us that.
Kids are the same. It’s the parents who have failed.
Every social media app is literally designed to addict the user.
This is like handing children bag of liquid dopamine to carry around with them like an IV and then we wonder why they lose attention, can’t remember things, get emotional when it’s taken away.
Apple, Samsung, and others should be brought before Congress and explain to us what safeguards and warning labels they intend to create when a child uses one of their products.
That's going to take heavy handed government involvement into the market place or accrued awareness over the issue to seep into culture at large.
I see it kind of like junk food. Doesn't have to be a problem... but is a problem for a lot of people. Better educated people and the cultures they inhabit have learned to deal with the problem of junk food decently... my guess is that they'd be the first to think better of smart phones and social media. Whether or not that would spread to the rest of the culture, I don't know. (it certainly hasn't where junk food is concerned)
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Uh….how will they call 9-1-1 during the shootings though?
We can ban phones but not guns? Nice work america.
We can ban phones but not guns? Nice work america.
There is almost zero parental compliance. Phones are banned at all times at our school. They must be turned off and left in lockers. Phones taken are turned in to the office and a parent or guardian has to come in and pick it up. I turned in, easily, two dozen phones this year. In several cases, it was the same kid which means a parent came in, picked up the phone, and gave it right back to the student. Parents think their kids neeeeed those phones.
German teachers, on average, earn about a third more than their US counterparts, as well. Among the highest paid in the world. And treated as professionals.
Just like parents are constantly battling the Marxist ideas you are putting in their children’s head.
I would rather have the students on their phone than listening to a progressive Marxist public school teacher.
They don’t put with much misbehavior….school administrators have their back as well.
Yeah, Germany is apples and oranges from the U.S. in many ways.
Yep…you don’t have to have a HOA to make sure folks keep their yards in order for one 😂
I have first graders wearing Apple Watches to school and texting their parents throughout the day. This happens in every grade level and every class in my building. I have parents coming to pick up their sick kid but the kid never went to the nurse, the parent/kid just text back and forth. Parents have no idea how disruptive technology and social media can be.
