• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    10 days ago

    These people are supposed to be experts in child development.

    Completely irresponsible for the school to be encouraging 11 year olds to have smart phones.

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      10 days ago

      All studies about this are still too recent to have reached your common school. Teachers fall exactly in the age span of people that can’t let go of their phones in an almost unhealthy way and probably were pretty excited, when they found this game online - to share with the kids.

      That’s just my impression though

      IANAL OR AP NOR AE

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      9 days ago

      Most teachers are aware how bad smartphones are, at least from the surveys I’ve seen. They’re more skeptical of them than parents or children. I think this case is kind of an outlier.