Kids learning to avoid government control and setting up covert communication seems like a very important lesson later in life these days.
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
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Kids have been doing this always. Did you not pass notes or make up codes as a kid?
It's just a new technology that weve allowed capitalists to ruin through creating addictions.
Kids spend far too much time in school on their phones. This is simply true.
Counter point to this tho: Kids go to school knowing a shooting can happen at any time and need to have their phones for if that happens.
I can't support restricting phones before we restrict firearms.
This is the answer.
Sort of agree?
Yeah, guns must be banned completely in the US, fully agree, but phones in class too. Waiting with one for the other won't make anything better
Why don't they just have rules like we did years ago. Have your phone out in class and you get a lunch detention, next time a detention, 3rd time sent to the office with a recommendation for suspension.
Kids have to learn to be responsible.... They will have their phone on them everywhere else in life, like work. Learning to be responsible about it seems like education.
I fervently agree with your hypothesis, but i dont think you know what it is like inside public schools these days. "Shut up bitch" is the likely response to enforcing that lol
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I'm assuming firearms are also restricted in NYC schools.
Yeah but the thing with mass shooters is that they don't give a fuck what the law says.
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“The teachers are the first ones to complain, ‘Oh, you were late, da da da da.’ I'm like, ‘I was on the line, like, what do you want me to do?’”
Yeah... I would walk right tf out of there.
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"the distribution of 350,000 internet-enabled Chromebooks, part of the city’s effort to replace aging devices obtained during the pandemic, and ensure that all students have access to technology in schools even as their personal devices are banned."
Yeah, force kids to give all their data to the one company that is doing such a great job at securing it.
WTF?
My concern is just how disposable and unrepairable Chromebooks are. So much e-waste generated every 2-3 years.
Ewaste == corporate profits.
So they're treating kids like prisoners?
Fences, rigid schedule, forced interactions, institutional food, mindlessly boring, mandatory attendance I'm going to do a Foucault and say yes.
As if school wasn't already a prison with all the metal detectors and xray machines.
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Decks of cards are usually banned in schools. The schools consider card games to be gambling (even if there are no stakes) and that's not permitted on school premesis.
"usually"?
Not where I'm from (which isn't NYC)
I grew up in the American public school system during pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards peak popularity. There were a whole lot of people who had card decks confiscated under such rules. I've lived in several states and while I don't know the policies for everyone state I've lived in's public schools, I do know that the school's my son has attended also have such rules.
So I guess YMMV.
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Yeah I remember in highschool trying to play MTG with some friends during study hall and having one of the monitors come over and tell us no card games were allowed because of gambling, except go-fish apparently? Idk why go-fish would be less possible to gamble on, but...
Start a gambling club that only plays high stakes go-fish games with real money
Yeah I think my friends and I had joked that we should play go fish and super obviously be gambling and exchanging money, and when someone came over be like "I mean you guys did say go-fish is allowed." Then if that was banned move to like betting on chess or something and get increasing ridiculous from there.
Also phones were fully allowed during our study halls so if people actually wanted to gamble they could very easily do so on them lol. I think game pigeon even has poker so you could basically do it undetectably via just a group chat.
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These phone pouches confuse me. They open with a simple magnet. Do they think kids don't have access to magnets?
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Soliman said students sometimes physically leave the building and go out into the courtyard for a phone break to play games or check messages during free periods or lunch. “The benches are always full,” Soliman said.
JFC, kids, you make smoking look like an easy habit to kick.
Just wait until they learn about 'zines. They're like scrolling TikTok, but written down, like for literate people. /s
This is the most boomer-y comment I've read in a while. I remember my parents saying shit like this about me and my NES.
Yeah, it was sarcastic. Sorry.
Your comment is like the embodiment of one of those "Kids don't know how to swipe a book like an iPad" boomerslop comics
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Yes take away the one tool that is basically required for modern adult life.
Just wondering, in your own words, what demographic is this article is discussing?
*required by capitalism for "modern" life. Literally no one actually needs a phone. But samsung and apple do need to keep their slave labor producing products for consumers.
It's a fair point.
Phones REALLY enable stupidity amongst, like.... everyone though.
I'm not sure if there's a middle ground or what it would be.
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