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What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian
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Controls like these don't work if the kid is smart, determined or the parents are too tired or uninvolved. There's more to the cellphone issue than the actual cellphone.
It doesn't matter if the kid is smart and determined, parental controls can't be circumvented.
Unless the parent is stupid enough to leave their phones unlocked or lax enough to unblock the phone every time the kid asks for it.
I think you’re being a little naive…
Circumventing parental controls that “couldn’t be circumvented” is what I did as a child that led to me being a computer programmer
We're not talking about the dumb parental controls from the 90's or 2000's and run on Windows, we're talking about smartphone OSes (iOS and Android) that are locked down to start with.
Security is really hard, and these operating systems are built with new features and release dates as the primary concerns
If you’re trying to follow proper security practices as of today, ensure the device is up to date and rebooted daily
Use the parental control features as one part of parenting, but don’t expect them to be infallible