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Should students have cellphones in class? Indiana just said no — with a few exceptions (www.wishtv.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by redfox to c/indiana@midwest.social

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Indiana just passed legislation to require schools to ban phones.

They permit them for health reasons, emergencies, when part of lesson, and when part of a formal plan.

I personally don't like the idea of schools requiring locking them up. What would you do in that emergency they mentioned?

Why should kids not be able to use them at lunch?

If you want to control your kid's phone time, there's already apps for that.

Edit: additional comment from a teacher: she said the phone restrictions aren't going to be as effective as one would think with all the kids having watches with data plans. Dude...

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Voters/Teachers: Teachers should have the right to make students shut off their ringers and put away or even turn their phones in at the start of class.

These bozos: Let's mandate that schools and teachers deal with this issue in the most asinine way possible.

Mind you, in Indiana, there is no checking that your homeschooling is actually teaching your child anything. It's one of the best states for Un-schooling, if that's how you want to educate them. We're also swimming in private/religious school vouchers and charter schools.

I can't wait to see how this joke plays out.

[–] redfox 1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

most asinine way possible.

Why do you think not having phones during school is this extreme? How should it be then? I imagine if the schools would have dealt with this issue on their own, there wouldn't have been lobbying by teacher groups to legislate this? I can't imagine law makers being interested in this on it's own, but who knows...

in Indiana, there is no checking that your homeschooling is actually teaching your child anything

There's a ton of states like that, and it blows my mind. I have relatives in Texas this statement applies to, and it's outrageous. You can certainly email your legislative representatives and tell them how uneducated people have a harder time contributing to society...

I feel like the voucher thing is another one of those governmental half effort things that was not necessarily a bad idea, but was implemented in a really poor way. I feel like that's a bit like not putting a break pedal on a car and then saying cars are stupid and unsafe.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I have relatives in Texas this statement applies to, and it's outrageous. You can certainly email your legislative representatives and tell them how uneducated people have a harder time contributing to society...

But don’t you see? When these kinds of people make the most ideal Republican electorate possible, this outcome is their objective!!

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Un-schoolers typically have better outcomes than public-school kids, and you are confusing them for the products of religious schools. No one who thinks as you are inferring is going to give their kids any intellectual freedom.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Homeschooled children are consistently the least educated and least prepared for the modern world, including our capitalist-slavery system of indentured (be profitable to someone else or die) employment. The vast majority of them will either slide into extreme poverty or will never be able to extricate themselves from it.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

"Consistently" ... show your homework. Everything I'm seeing shows the opposite.

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