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B.C. bans cellphone use in schools, prohibits protests (vancouver.citynews.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's still a pretty young technology, and it took a few years to understand the impacts of it. We've had them long enough now to be able to see how detrimental they have been to the first generation using them.