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by Mordisquitos 668 days ago
> When did schools start allowing cell phone use during class?

I wonder to what extent this is an effect of the age of the teachers themselves. The median age of a teacher in the US is ~40 years old, so a significant proportion of them are accustomed to phones being an essential part of social life and hence may be a bit more lenient to students occasionally checking their phone when it appears to be non-disruptive. Needless to say though, this easily becomes a non-fallacious slippery slope.
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ryandrake 667 days ago
Kids are great at detecting hypocrisy. As a teacher, you can't tell a kid to make it through the day without "checking" their phones if you can't make it through the day without checking your own phone.
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consteval 666 days ago
No, it's 100% the parents. The parents are younger, and phone addicted too. And I don't know what happened in the past 20 ish years but parents are unbelievably entitled.

Many parents freak out if you take their kid's phone. That's not okay anymore, I guess. Detention doesn't really exist either because parents don't want it. Even summer school is just a suggestion at this point. Parents have bullied their local ISD's into being weak.

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