The amount of times I told my students they can use their phone for certain exercises, then 90% of them just went on Tiktok or played Clash Of Clans, is why is started not allowing phones.

I get that to the 10% it was super helpful but it's just easier to not allow everyone.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, at least you gave them a chance. Thank you.

[–] jaackf@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I'm all for giving them a chance to prove they're able to be responsible. Especially the kids that always try hard and deserve to be trusted.

I found that a lot of kids struggled to accept any consequences of their actions, though taking their phones off them for playing games was pretty clear to them.

[–] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It would be funny if people were forced to do something akin to mandatory military service but for working at a school as a paraprofessional or other aide for a little while. I feel like most people really have no idea how much teachers have to juggle and deal with on a daily basis. Come see how my kids behave when left to their own devices and then judge me.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Everyone should have to work a retail/customer service/care/teaching job, its eye opening the way people treat those they see as in their service.

[–] jaackf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

For sure! A lot of parents don't really understand the amount of stuff teachers have to go through either, and we don't get paid for the hundreds of hours we do outside of teaching hours.

It's why I had to quit in the end. Felt like I couldn't give it my all because I was mentally and physically exhausted.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Like flight mode there should be school mode where students can only use a provided wlan that comes with content filters.

[–] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Block cellular with thick walls, then only allow them through wifi. Things like youtube can only be acces with a cabled connection. Something like this seems like a good start.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Offline games entered the chat. ProtonVPN entered the chat (specifically Proton with their bypass methods). Tor entered the chat.

They don't even need to know what VPN or Tor is, it's just "Download this app to access internet, bro".

[–] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

If there was a sort of national system for it, maybe some kinks could be worked out. And if some people still succeed, sure let them have it.

Also, limiting it to offline only already makes a huge difference

[–] jaackf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

100%, if the schools were funded well enough, issuing school phones would be amazing!

School computers work well because they block most of the distractions but ofc students have 1001 distractions in their own!