flown-the-coop said:BonfireNerd04 said:
The good thing about the youth being smartphone zombies is that now you can be autistic without looking weird.
It's the parents that are zombies.
Why the "cellphone bans" in schools have little effect and are a dumb idea.
Like taking out cokes and candy bars from schools was going to make kids less fat. It's bad parenting, not bad kids and tech companies.
I disagree, and I dont really think it's an apt comparison to weight loss.
People who are in an environment to lose weight...let's say, at the gym, don't get cokes and candy bars there. It works against what they're working towards.
Kids are at school to learn, and tangentially, to develop socially. They aren't learning or being social when distracted by the devices...that's plainly obvious. And I've heard teacher after teacher espousing the virtues of removing phones....more interaction in class, better questions, better social skills, etc.
If you have a kid with a phone, you know how much of an 'attention magnet' they are. A very simple experiment bears that out. Have a family meal with phones, and have one without phones, and tell me there isn't a giant difference...and that's in a relaxed setting. Now apply that same experiment to a task, like school, where attention is required.
Now I do agree parents are to blame as well...and they should set a much better example at home. But when the kids are at school, the parents can't control the situation, so it benefits the kids, for the schools to remove electronics.