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Social media is a problem for sure.

Also, thank you for asking what schools are supposed to do.

The problem is schools not managing to encouraging pupils towards learning.

I know I've said this before, but the teachers curse is that nothing is taught until the pupil understands it themselves, and is willing to absorb the material put in front of them. Encouraging pupils to want to learn ought to be top priority for any school. Banning phones is a lost cause, because they're already lost at that point. They're bored, so they rock on the chair or fiddle with a phone. I seriously don't think that social media addiction is the core issue here. It's an issue for sure, but it's not what is keeping kids from learning. Boredom is.

Regardless of technology, paying attention is entirely up to their own willingness to learn. Teachers should be feeding the desire to learn, not in a "fellow kids" kind of way, but by showing them why the curriculum is important to them.

I totally acknowledge that there's no reason to have a phone in class and that social media is bad, but it's relevant not issue in teaching.

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (Fear of long words) was clearly not defined by anyone suffering from the phobia either.

I think you're missing my point.

I doubt the sports jocks use their phone during sports ball practice?

Seems like a sports jock attention problem more than a phone availability problem.

Their friends are pretty good too. Whenever they hang out they do other stuff. They plan to meet for some purpose and that's what they do. Keeping up to date on social media is something they do on their own time when they're bored.

It's like they grow out of it, once they've seen enough crap.

I have children, including a teen, and they have phones.

One thing I do notice is that they're quite a lot better at putting the phone away when they're with friends doing stuff or at family dinners than their grandparents who keeps checking notifications and answering calls regardless of when and where.

They grew up with phones and they have a much better understanding of when it's socially acceptable to use it.

They know not use the phone during class, so there's really no good reason to ban it entirely.

Before phones, students were distracted by fidget toys, tamagochi, bubble gum, various collectibles, comic books, ordinary books, paper notes, drawing, pen twitching, etc.etc.

Students always find ways to get distracted. Take away everything and they'll still be rocking on the chair.

So if the purpose of banning distractions is to make students more attentive, well.. it's just not going to do that.

Then there is online bullying. Has bullying actually increased or are we just seeing it more, because it's now documented? Banning phones in school won't stop it from happening outside school hours anyway.

I'm not advocating for allowing phones in schools during lectures or anything, but it's pretty clear to me that an outright ban is an outdated solution that will only hide the issues instead of solving them.

Some years ago Reddit had such a large reach in the media space that you could be discussing something on there and news outlets would pick up on it. For a brief period it actually felt like a platform where ordinary people could get heard and influence the world outside of Reddit or at least sway opinions of other real users. The reason why it worked was the massive userbase. The high profile AMA's drew quite the crowd. Those days are long gone. It's been a long time I saw any serious news outlets report on what happens on Reddit. GameStop was probably the last big Reddit thing to make a dent on the outside world.

I don't want Lemmy to be that big, but it would be nice to know that if you make effort to write something that is important to you, that it gets read by more than two other people who already have the same opinion.

"flex index".. I don't know what they do, but it's a proper description of what employers used RTO do do.

I don't think anyone obcess over their musical skills, because they're quite mediocre, but rather because they managed to pull a 10/10 album despite of being ordinary blokes with guitars.

Their second album "(what's the story) morning glory?" is a true masterpiece and should be on a top 100 of all albums of all times.

It was refreshingly unpretentious at the time. Ironically the success turned them into pretentious idiots who never managed to follow up.

I wonder how they even got into music to begin with, because it seems like a bunch of hooligans just went into a music studio and got it right on the first take.

Not OP, but I think it's a statement on all the useless "let me explain" videos on YouTube.

If you end up watching "explain" videos on celebrity gossip, you should walk away because you have reached the end of the internet.

The board along the kitchen ceiling is only covering the ventilation tube, but all the other cupboards seems to work fine.

All the hinges are placed on a vertical side of the odd shapes, so they ought to function normally.

What you say is also a key point to understanding where the borderline is for sexual harassment or other types of unwanted behaviours in the workplace.

This is often confusing for some people who often ask: "Why can't I say this and what's up with everyone being offended over compliments?", etc.

Simply put: It's perfectly fine to say "nice jeans", but it is not okay to say "your butt looks great in those jeans".

It might be fine for other private occasions, but in a professional working environment we shouldn't judge each other by personal appearance or sexuality.