• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    Good, you don’t need smart phones in school

    For anyone screeching that you do: No. You don’t.

    We’ve been without smart phones for millenia, literally, and we were fine without. You will be fine without.

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      20 days ago

      we didnt have clean drinking water either, or daily showers, we lived without soap for millenia

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        19 days ago

        Lol, we definitely have had clean drinking water for far longer than we have had dirty drinking water, thank the industrial revolution for that. And try skipping a shower for a day - you’ll be fine. Soap also has a long history https://www.soaphistory.net/soap-history/ over 4000 years

        So literally wrong on all three points. Perhaps you need to read more instead of doom scrolling and swapping nudes on your smartphone

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          19 days ago

          I’m pretty sure there can be other bad stuff in water that existed before the industrial revolution

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            19 days ago

            Sure, loads of sewage. But it also had smaller settlements, less people, and human waste was recycled more in times gone by too. Far more water was far more drinkable even 150 years ago

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              3 hours ago

              Where do people like you get their information from? I’m seriously wondering, is there a shitty nonsense site out there or do you just pull shit out of your ass?

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      20 days ago

      People werent fine either, why dont you just google 911 calls from kids and see how many would have been better off without phones

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      19 days ago

      For me school was a great way to learn almost nothing of any use while occupying 11 years of my life with pointless time filing busywork that I hated every hour, minute and each and every eternal second of of. The only thing worse than school has been work and my consolation is that at least it’s not forever!

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        4 days ago

        Aaahhh yes, you’re one of those people that just knew English grammar right at birth. I envy you! I guess that things like history, math, geography, economics, computers, it all was just already in your head and you didn’t need to lean anything. Wowowow

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          3 days ago

          I’m not saying that, I’m saying most of that time was wasted. I got very little for the 20’000 hours and most of my youth. In fact the overwhelming majority of what I kmow I got from the internet after class.

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            3 hours ago

            I don’t know what to tell you, it sounds to me that that statement says more about your and or your specific school than in general.

            Yeah, the teaching could have been better, everything can be better, that doesn’t mean that everything is useless. You are talking to me by writing, you learned grammar yet you claim you got almost nothing. It’s weird

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        5 days ago

        About?

        That didn’t exist 20 years ago?

        There are no teachers with mobile phones around?

        You don’t need a mobile phone

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          5 days ago

          Lots of type 1 diabetics now use their smartphones to keep track of their numbers, they use them to work out carbohydrates, the phones also warn them of high numbers and potentially fatal lows. So yes they do need phones.

          The child’s phone also sends blood glucose values to family members.

          Also a teacher having a mobile phone doesn’t help one iota.

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            4 days ago

            Yay, you mayhaps found a possible potential exception to a rule.

            Main point still stands, and yeah, teachers can have a smart phone as long as it’s on do not disturb during teaching hours. If it’s not for a few times, you discipline the teacher. It’s not that hard.

            Either way, no phones in class. Students need a no distraction environment and they do not need TikTok or whatever is the craze right now