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by kube-system 1257 days ago
Maybe the dopamine addictions that many of these kids experience are the reason they’re bored with school. Maybe they’re a contributing reason that remote learning was ineffective.

When I was a kid, going to school was the social medium. Even the kids who skipped class physically came to school to meet up. Now that we’ve removed that incentive for attendance, no wonder kids don’t show up.

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I know for sure if I was saddled with remote learning during elementary/middle/highschool I would waste all of my time playing games and try skirting by with the bare minimum. After all, that's exactly what we did with the computer lab in the school whenever we got access to it.
I still hated every minute of school lessons in school, even without social medias st the time. I know it's a one off, but boring people for 6 hours per day in high school is bad. All I wanted to do was stop being there for 6 hours.

I'm pretty sure I hit depression due to that, but was never diagnosed

It seems inevitable we will have to adapt to the new normal expected dopamine frequency