[zdragnar]

Every school system sets its own vacation days, and home schooled kids don't share the same set hours or days as the local school districts.

I don't doubt that the harms are real, but I do suspect that you are putting an unreasonable burden on tik tok here.

What I'm actually most curious about is when did schools start letting kids have cell phones during the school day? I was in school roughly just before smart phones were a thing, but texting was starting to become popular if you could get a plan that didn't charge per text.

The expectation was your phone stayed in your locker if you brought it to school, and anyone caught with one during class or in the hallways during class hours would have it taken away until the day was over.

[LarryMullins]

> Every school system sets its own vacation days,

You're missing the part where TikTok knows where their users are, and know when a thousand kids are clustered together inside of a known school building in the middle of the day in the middle of the week. It's not rocket science to figure out those kids are in school. They know it.

> home schooled kids

The inability to perfectly know when a kid might be "in school" doesn't make much difference in my eye. They could easily detect it most of the time, and probably do, but choose to serve those kids anyway.

[ashwagary]

>They could easily detect it most of the time, and probably do, but choose to serve those kids anyway.

Seems ridiculous to push this responsibility on companies and app engineers. It isn't society's job to child proof the world for distracted children. Parents and guardians have to take the reigns and deal with discipline issues directly.