#phone bans

[stimpunks]

With bans on phones and social media, we are disarming students who refuse to swallow the bunting.

Blanket phone bans are a failure to do holistic, systems thinking and adopt structural ideology. Those require community conversation. Those require understanding and recognizing ecosystems. Those require thinking in terms of prevention (in social work terms) instead of tier 1 intervention (in RTI terms). Phone bans are bikeshedding. Phone bans are fundamental attribution error. Phone bans are…

[salsa-and-light]

I once got into a discussion about a the new laws about phones in Americans schools and the number of people who came out of the woodwork to complain that it’s “impossible” to control students with phones was simply incredible.

They acted so smug about it to, “you’re not a teacher, you wouldn’t understand”

Never mind that I literally am a teacher and the thing I don't understand is how wimpy these teachers are.

Some of these people are shamelessly arguing that teachers should be able to handle students phones with no legal responsibility or else arguing that children don't need phones at all.

Never mind that everything is online now and children can't visit their friends in America because they can't drive.

"kids don't pay attention in class anymore Because Of Phone" is so funny as an argument. students haven't paid attention in class since school was invented. my parents' generation were in there making flipbooks out of the corners of their notebooks and doodling random shit instead of taking notes. and they didn't have phones.

[lgbtlunaverse]

To like a character means to accurately understand their flaws. Modern au Nie Huaisang would use chat gpt to write his essays for him, and I don't have to like that fact to know that it's true.

[arkhamsbrat]

jason todd is scared of you.

not because you hurt him, lord knows you couldn’t, but because you trust him. blindly, wholly and completely.

he’s terrified of how gentle you are, how kind, how patient, how good. he hates it. hates you, but not truly. he loves you more than anything you just make him… vulnerable.

jason todd looks at you, sleeping peacefully in his arms, and for just a moment he allows himself to smile. he thinks about what he has with you, the safety, and yearns to drift off as easily as you do. he doesn’t get that.

he dreams of the day you do betray him, prove him right. prove that he doesnt deserve the softness you provide, the gentle kiss you place on his forehead when you leave your shared bed he imposes himself to every night to wash your face, prove that you’ve thought all along that he’s the monster he sees in the mirror.

except months pass, and it doesnt happen. the rug is never pulled from under his feet. youre an open book for him to flip through that hes read 100’s of times by now. you never surprise him. thats why he loves you.

you hit a year mark with jason and the voices don’t stop completely, but he stops checking your (now shared) apartment for bugs. you notice that hes actually surprised when you bring him gifts now, which totally isn’t because he stopped going through your phone.

jason realized hed been invading your privacy, but you welcomed it, didnt you? smiled when he looked over your shoulder and tilted your phone towards him, hoping he thought the video you just watched was interesting too. you let him have passwords and access to everything.

jason knew that you knew he didn’t have it easy growing up. no specifics, but you could just tell. you had a rough childhood, who were you to judge him? when he finally told you about robin, red hood, who he truly was he expected you to hit him. scream. anything other than nod and tell him you were glad he trusted you. he took so much, and you expected nothing in return?

jason todd hates you more than anything else in this world. but he loves you just as much.

[fruit-of-the-kaisarion]

hugs :)

[front-facing-pokemon]

[iam-anordinary-human-orami]

I would imagine the twinyards rushing to text or call each other for happy birthday only because they made a game out of it, probably one of the sessions with Bee. Game rules are: first to wish "Birth" on the 4th of November wins, loser has to then say "Day", call Kevin and ask him something about history, or exy, or the history of exy. The twinyards turn 38 this year. To this day, Kevin still hasn't figured it out.

[greatgoddyke]

pony posting

[cuepickle]

This guy bans you for life wyd?

[0ann3]

Quickly drawing some of my ocs and decided to draw Silver as well since it's been a whileee

[reasonsforhope]

"France is to trial a ban on mobile phones at school for pupils up to the age of 15, seeking to give children a “digital pause” that, if judged successful, could be rolled out nationwide from January [2025].

Just under 200 secondary schools will take place in the experiment that will require youngsters to hand over phones on arrival at reception. It takes the prohibition on the devices further than a 2018 law that banned pupils at primary and secondary schools from using their phones on the premises but allowed them to keep possession of them.

Announcing the trial on Tuesday, the acting education minister, Nicole Belloubet, said the aim was to give youngsters a “digital pause”. If the trial proves successful, the ban would be introduced in all schools from January, Belloubet said.

A commission set up by the president, Emmanuel Macron, expressed concern that the overexposure of children to screens was having a detrimental effect on their health and development.

A 140-page report published in March concluded there was “a very clear consensus on the direct and indirect negative effects of digital devices on sleep, on being sedentary, a lack of physical activity and the risk of being overweight and even obese … as well as on sight”.

It said the “hyper” use of phones and other digital technology was not only bad for children but also for “society and civilisation”.

The report recommended children’s use of mobile phones be controlled in stages: no mobile phones before the age of at least 11, mobiles without internet access between 11 and 13, phones with internet but no access to social media before 15.

It also suggested children under three years old should not be exposed at all to digital devices, which it said were “not necessary for the healthy development of the child”.

“We must put the digital tool in its place. Up to at least six years old a child has no need for a digital device to develop,” Servane Mouton, a neurologist and neurophysiologist who was on the commission, said. “We have to teach parents once again how to play with their children.”

Banning phones in schools has long been debated across Europe. In countries where bans exist this is most often confined to their use and do not require children to hand them over.

In Germany there are no formal restrictions but most schools have prohibited the use of mobile phones and digital devices in classrooms except for education purposes. A quasi ban has been in place in Dutch secondary school classrooms since the beginning of this year, but as a recommendation and not a legal obligation. From this school year the directive will also apply to primary schools.

Italy was early to phone bans, introducing one in 2007 before easing it in 2017 and reimposing it in 2022. It applies to all age groups.

In February this year, the Westminster government issued non-statutory guidance that said schools in England should prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day, but that it was for individual headteachers and leaders to decide on their phone use policy.

Portugal is experimenting with a compromise by introducing a number of phone-free days at schools each month, while in Spain schools in some autonomous regions have imposed a ban but there is no nationwide prohibition."

-via The Guardian, August 27, 2024

[dovewingkinnie]

is Jerry alright?he looks confused…

he is not ok about the picture they took (ive decided that drawing is them taking a picture together)

[justkillingthyme]

Happy Luke Lunes!

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

please pray for me, I'm desperately terrified of going into work anymore

[moeblob]

Right and his work menaces (Brent and Karen).

I don't remember last I mentioned it but apart from crude nicknames to people (except Chris), he also just puts them in his phone really weird (except Chris, who is literally in his phone as Chris). And I bring this up because in Right's phone, Karen is saved as "Lawful Obligation".

[loverusts]

Duran Duran - The Chauffeur