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Its anecdotal at best. Its like if someone was saying "we should give kids school lunch so they preform better at school" and then I replied "I didnt have school lunch and I got top my class" you'd think ok that changes nothing.
There is a lot of research to support the idea that adults are less likely to pick up a skill if they weren't exposed to it as a kid. If you dont grow up working with technology to make things you're less likely to go down that route as an adult or late teen. Thats a huge disadvantage in today's age.
Eating lunch at school meets a basic human need and doesn't really have a downside, though. It seems like there's increasing reason to believe that cellphones, social media, online classes, etc actually hurt young people's psychological and social development. I can understand why some parents would be wary of feeding into that.
I can understand why parents woulr be wary giving their kids to much access to technology thats why I'm pushing back and saying that going full Luddite returning to a landline is not the answer.