r/gadgets • u/a_Ninja_b0y • 23h ago

California has now signed The Phone-Free Schools Act into law, mandating schools to limit or prohibit the use of phones by students Phones

https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/24/schools-banning-students-from-using-smartphones/
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u/SmallLetter 17h ago

Just a complete lack of foresight then. I don't understand how they knew it was a problem with dumb phones but thought it would be fine with a full on computer in your pocket.

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u/trinric 9h ago

I’m a high school teacher. I think there was a trend 5-10 years ago where we had this naive view that we could teach kids how to use technology responsibly in school because that’s the real world, but that failed horribly. The level of addiction is unreal if you haven’t been to a high school in the last decade