mobile phones in schools - yay or nay?

onlyroz

Obviously the kids shouldn't be fiddling about with the phones during lessons but I don't see a problem with them having a phone at school and using it during break times.

svain

peachyprice wrote: »

I wonder how many of the people who voted NO leave their phones at home when they go to work?

How is that at all relevant?

peachyprice

svain wrote: »

How is that at all relevant?

It's relevant because it's a prime example of parents treating their children as lesser beings just because they are children.

If an adult doesn't leave the house without their phone why should their children be expected to? What makes whatever may be happening in their lives more important than what may be happening in their children's lives?

svain

peachyprice wrote: »

It's relevant because it's a prime example of parents treating their children as lesser beings just because they are children.

If an adult doesn't leave the house without their phone why should their children be expected to? What makes whatever may be happening in their lives more important than what may be happening in their children's lives?

What strange thinking ... (unless you are a child?) .... On that basis children should be able to drink alcohol, have sex and smoke

Paparika

Why would a child need to have a mobile phone in school.

If they need to contact the parent you do it via the school office and if parent needs to get a message to child same principle.

I can not see ANY reason why a child NEEDS to have their phone on in a classroom.

powerful_Rogue

peachyprice wrote: »

It's relevant because it's a prime example of parents treating their children as lesser beings just because they are children.

If an adult doesn't leave the house without their phone why should their children be expected to? What makes whatever may be happening in their lives more important than what may be happening in their children's lives?

Because children are children and adults are adults. Too many have tried to blur that line and look at the state of the youth nowdays.

Red-Squirrel_2

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Because children are children and adults are adults. Too many have tried to blur that line and look at the state of the youth nowdays.

What is wrong with the state of the youth nowadays? They don't strike me as fundamentally different, I'm sure in a few decades they'll e complaining about 'the youth of today' too!

svain

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

What is wrong with the state of the youth nowadays? They don't strike me as fundamentally different, I'm sure in a few decades they'll e complaining about 'the youth of today' too!

I dont think we have seen the consequence yet for the generation most affected by smart phones from such a young age.

Red-Squirrel_2

svain wrote: »

I dont think we have seen the consequence yet for the generation most affected by smart phones from such a young age.

Yeah, but its always something isn't it? Rock and Roll, video games, TV, Rap, the internet, its been the same refrain forever just a different prop for the moral panic.

svain

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Yeah, but its always something isn't it? Rock and Roll, video games, TV, Rap, the internet, its been the same refrain forever just a different prop for the moral panic.

Yes, over the generations for teenagers there is always something. Where the smart phones differ is they are accessible from a much earlier age, and are generally a solitary activity