I wouldn't ban phones UNLESS we can trust teachers again, because do you really want to see the shit they'll try if the KNOW there's no chance of it being recorded?
I'd vote for that, certainly; all-day video recordings in every classroom, camera completely protected and tamper-proof, recordings monitored and stored by third-party companies with oversight from at least two political parties and destruction or modification of said recordings resulting in civil and criminal prosecution.
And if you don't reinforce good behaviors, you'll watch them succumb to perverse incentives.
Phones should not be being used in any sort of work area unless it is for work communication, with other workers. (Which is typically why managers have to have their phones on them.) Everyone else should stay off their phone and focus on work.
For a child in school, there are literally zero things that he needs his phone for in a class rom. Zero. If instruction is taking place, the phone is off. If he has a question, he can ask. If he forgot his text book, he can share with others. If he forgot his homework, it's not on his phone. If he's waiting for an important communication, it can wait until after class, or until his parent picks him up.
Now, if he's 16-18, sure, maybe his work needs to text him to tell him to bring something additional in when he arrives. But 16 year olds aren't children.
Honestly, phones should be fucking banned in class, confiscated really. But, we also need to ban public schools at the same time because of this shit.
I wouldn't ban phones UNLESS we can trust teachers again, because do you really want to see the shit they'll try if the KNOW there's no chance of it being recorded?
We would need streaming cameras installed in all the classrooms. But I agree with him that banning the classroom is preferable.
I'd vote for that, certainly; all-day video recordings in every classroom, camera completely protected and tamper-proof, recordings monitored and stored by third-party companies with oversight from at least two political parties and destruction or modification of said recordings resulting in civil and criminal prosecution.
Except we all know they would be used to punish little Jimmy for that "transphobic" joke he wrote in the margin of his notebook and showed his friend.
that's how all this shit even came to light.
parents were at home during the pandemic, finally tuning into what teachers were pushing, asking WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS THAT?
Precisely my point.
Phones shouldn't be banned in class, but students should be disciplined into not using them unless they absolutely have to.
Treat kids like babies and you make immature adults.
And if you don't reinforce good behaviors, you'll watch them succumb to perverse incentives.
Phones should not be being used in any sort of work area unless it is for work communication, with other workers. (Which is typically why managers have to have their phones on them.) Everyone else should stay off their phone and focus on work.
For a child in school, there are literally zero things that he needs his phone for in a class rom. Zero. If instruction is taking place, the phone is off. If he has a question, he can ask. If he forgot his text book, he can share with others. If he forgot his homework, it's not on his phone. If he's waiting for an important communication, it can wait until after class, or until his parent picks him up.
Now, if he's 16-18, sure, maybe his work needs to text him to tell him to bring something additional in when he arrives. But 16 year olds aren't children.
There could be an emergency they need to be called for, there's not 'literally zero reasons'. There's just VERY few reasons.
A kid with his/her phone in their bag under their desk is no more intrusive than a phone locked up. Provided the child isn't a tard.
If there's that big of an emergency, you call the school, not the kid.
And that's what I mean, a phone entirely out of their possession, in a drop-box if need be (like you would do when walking into a high-security room).
Nah