Smartphones must be a nightmare for any teacher and kid. The amount of trolling and bullying kids can do with them is sickening. Now when you get bullied people post it online.
Smartphones must be a nightmare for any teacher and kid. The amount of trolling and bullying kids can do with them is sickening. Now when you get bullied people post it online.
Last edited by lonely zergling; 2017-12-12 at 04:15 PM.
Irrelevant, because the other posters claim was there's no need for a parent to be able to track their child because it's "bad for their development".
But yes, they cannot use the phone on school grounds. The other poster said there was no need for children to have phones at all, which is just a faulty claim, as the ability to contact someone in an emergency is far too important.
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You're purposely creating a situation where the fire is too intense.
That doesn't mean there will never be a situation where you could use the phone to contact the fire department to tell them exactly where you are in the building, along with others, to help them evacuate you faster.
No one is going to be screaming into a phone. You hide, take cover, whatever.
Then you use the phone to call the cops, talking low, and let them know where the shooter is.
You are vastly downplaying the usage here.
Last edited by Jester Joe; 2017-12-12 at 04:18 PM.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
I am speaking specifically about the spyware promoted and sold to parents to control their kids movements. Not analyzing you at all, there is only a difference how europeans look at privacy online and how americans look at it.
Far from being hostile, interesting you think i am if i bump unto it i'll link it. However exercising said control has never been worth the false sense of security it provides, what is about the only argument for kids to always have a phone on them.
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A person who kidnaps anyone or does any crime these days are fully aware that the phone is the first thing you go for and demolish. That is hardly a new concept and such apps in my opinion create a false sense of security.
I rather have a social control system being key and having a trust relationship so parents have some idea where their kids are. Rather than encouraging kids especially teens to hide their whereabouts since they are under constant control.
I find this to be a case where technology really does not benefit society. All this does is feed into the paranoid behavior and fears of parents or guardians. Something we really should not encourage.
This is the OPPOSITE of what needs to be done. Schools need to adapt to technological changes.
Phone and computer use is only going to rise in years to come and rather than try to drag students back into the old model they should work on a new one. Banning them from use during lessons is one thing but a complete ban is too far. They should teach children how andnwhen touse their phones along with how to be safe and secure online.
Make the kids put them on silent and keep them in their pockets.
But I see no reason to ban them outside of the classroom. If they're on break or lunch what's the harm?
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I'll take "shit that doesn't happen" for $500?
I mean, we've only had cell phones readily available for what, 20 years or so? For some reason it doesn't seem like we had so many more kidnappings because kids didn't have a phone glued to their face.
Cell phones have a place obviously, but don't act like they're the bastion of child defense you're pretending they are. They're for fucking around with when they're supposed to be doing work.
Except yet again, in destroying it you at least get a reliable "last known location". And even then, you still have criminals who try to rob a store without a mask on even. Not everyone is going to pull off each crime perfectly.
There's nothing about having the ability in an emergency to contact or track someone down that means there cannot be a trusting relationship.
The issue is you're thinking of it solely as a tool of paranoia and not acknowledging the actual positives said tool can have.
They are a tool of defense. I'd rather hear how you think they aren't with facts, rather than just your gut feelings.
Last edited by Jester Joe; 2017-12-12 at 04:40 PM.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
Fucking finally, those little shits annoyed the crap out of me when they did that.
So is a knife. So are a lot of things. Phones are a tool one that you CAN use for defense, its not FOR defense. Anyone who acts like a kid needs a cell phone during school hours is being disingenuous at best, and dumb at worst.
You know who can and should have a cell phone on them for just such an emergency relating the school? The teachers, and all the faculty. The phone can stay in the locker, and the kid can grab it when school ends for all of their kidnapping defense needs.