I HATE PHONES
Teachers getting pepper sprayed over phones is not shocking to me. On my first day teaching, I had a girl leave my class and scream at me for asking her to put her phones away. I caught the same girl scrolling tiktok on a serious standardized test. I’ve found a kid using chat GPT on his final essay— it’s blocked on the computers but he emails it to himself from his phone, doesn’t even get rid of the "Sure! Here’s a paragraph…." part of the bot’s response when he pastes it into his essay.
I’ve seen kids taking videos of horrible fights, and I’ve seen kids watching those videos later. It seems both exciting and numbing to them. Sometimes they’re texting when I’m talking, and they say they’re talking to their parents. Why are you texting your kid? Stop.
I had one kid lose his phone when he came back from a suspension after posting threats, but he was still on his phone in my class because he handed the administrators his old phone instead of his real one.
Sometimes you suggest to administrators that none of them should be allowed to have phones, and they say it’s a safety issue. You lock away a basket of phones into a closet down the hall during a standardized test because they won’t stop beeping, and your department chair tells you that you could get in trouble for unwarranted seizure.
You do your duty and tell parents their kids are on their phones, and they tell you they thought their ADHD kid was allowed to have a phone in their educational plan. If you say they aren’t, and read to them their plan, then they demand that their child get ten minute cool-down breaks— where they go in the hall and look at their phones. It goes into the plan.
The accommodation I need is for you to read, listen, talk, and write without looking at your phone. These kids use their phones to cheat, to torture each other, to shop, and to essentially spoil their youth and their last chance for a free education. If anyone tells you this isn’t prolific in American schools, they are lying to you or they have the type of brain worms where they think digital technology is helping people and not wrecking our brains. If you’re in your 30s+, you are basically from the Before Times, and you’re probably ontologically different from younger generations because of smartphone exposure.
I want to throw my phone down the well. I don’t like how accessible I have become to other people in all the things I do. I don’t want to answer any more questions. I don’t want to be known. I think I want to go back to letters. We date on the internet, fuck on the internet, die on the internet. It’s hollow & it just makes me feel hollow.
In my farming community, last night all the neighbors had bonfires during the full moon. I sat with a bug scientist who found the first swarm of killer bees in our state. They killed a goat in a factory town. There was a pack of howling coyotes in the mountains very close by, under the planet Jupiter. This younger generation is going to miss out on the natural world, on learning, and on listening to stories. They’re not going to experience the fires, they’re going to watch the fires on the screen.
>>20218Never worked in one but went to them. Yeah it's pretty bad. I dunno about his phone thing, I went to school on the early end of phone stuff.
I've seen my teach cut told off after class by this white trash problem kid's mom. Seen female teachers get sexually harassed by students. Never saw any fights between students and teachers but I heard about them, kids pulling knives and etc. Seen a bunch of hoe as teen girls who want always ask for hugs from male teachers go and turn around and get them fired for sexual harassment or just start rumors. Shit job.
>>20230Hah, not ruins it for me, but for other people.
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I dont know how all this shit works but couldn't you make/buy some sort of phone jammer that sits in your desk drawer?
I hate phones too and want to smash them with you op.
>>20224Not if you don't carry one. Everyone always bugs me about having a phone but I am upfront and tell them that I don't want to be bothered all the time.
>>20215>I caught the same girl scrolling tiktok on a serious standardized test.So?
>Look at phone>Looking at written material not part of test is cheating>You get a 1Easy peasy.
>use chat gpt from phone for final essayautomatic 1 too
>kid still on phone when suspended from phoneTake it from them
>taking films of fightsWhat kinda school are you in that fights are that regular? Also confiscate phones that are used in filming. Suspend anyone sharing video.
>texting parents during classBring it up during teacher parent talk
Say kids is gonna fail if they arent gonna pay attention and parents texting child during day is one of the main causes
Its not your job to helicopter pamper students. If they fail, they fail, and parents gotta be hit on their nose with the fact they are part of the problem.
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You're just a boomer. Kids need to feel the failure they are plunging themselves into by doing dumb shit. I had to quit first year of my college degree because I was on my phone constantly. Also you could just have essay tests be on physical paper in a classroom if its that much of a concern, avoiding the topic of why kids need to be able to write essays independently if they have calculators for basic text right now. Might as well do essay tests using chatgpt and use grade curving.
>>20253>and it's getting harder to root and jailbreak your phones.only real solution is a pinephone or similar device
>and social meida is completely out of our hands. and the worse thing is there's nothing to do about it.fediverse
>>20215You make some good points but do any boomers actually remember school? Because the way I see it, 90% of it was just pointless busybody work garbage anyways. Kids would fuck off any way they could whenever they got a chance. I can still remember several of my classes where the teacher just lost complete control and the entire lesson plan didn't get addressed because people were just screwing around, yelling, walking out of class, not paying attention, fucking around in the halls etc and this was pre smart-phones. Even when we weren't and things were going smoothly, it was just tedious garbage most of the time, writing another essay for the 50th time on some shit you don’t even understand or care about, reading some boomer book everyone says is a classic but you couldn’t give two flying shits about… The classes where I learned the most were ironically the ones with computers and where the teacher would give us tons of free time/leeway to fuck around.
Those were usually the classes with the smartest kids in them too. Smartphones are definitely mind fucking people because they’re getting addicted as hell to all the media and not regulating it, and for early grade-school where you’re learning to read and write it’s definitely a huge problem but by highschool most teenagers are half checked out anyways. I think education in general needs a massive reform but most parents just use it as baby sitting so no one wants to go there yet.
>>26352>does your mom know youre on here instead of doing your algebra 1 homework?Anon, I''m probably way older than you, I went to
college uni.
Anyway, ad hominem is not an argument.
>>26349 (me)
>cut their tiesI meant "limit their socialization." Haha, oops. My brain isn't working well today. 😅
>>26359>The reverse of that would be teaching you real life skills and how to do the basic things that everyone will end up needing to know when they're in their early twenties.I see what you mean. Well, most of the stuff they teach at school is still useful I'd say because it gives you a better understanding of the world which will help you in developing your materialist worldview. Sure, it may not be as useful for applying to a job but for forming a better conception of the world and being immune to desinformation (if you get yourself a left-leaning history textbook that is) it is.
Granted, the textbooks are bloated and a bore to read so most of the school years is indeed a waste of time, the curriculum should have a more pop sci approach since pop science is proletarian science.
>>26390 (me)
Also, economics and politics are another source of disinformation in schools so get yourself alternative textbooks on those subjects too.
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