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   Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 04:23:38 JST Flick ??

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn030kjz04xo.amp

   A mum has said her 11-year-old daughter returned home from school in tears because she did not have a smartphone to use in class.

   Celeste Lewis said she felt guilty after her daughter Ava's school, Whitchurch High in Cardiff, encouraged pupils to use their phones in lessons to do things like look up locations on Google Earth. […]

   Ms Lewis said she began to feel "pressure" on parents to buy smartphones as her daughter left primary school, but decided not to over fears about how it might affect Ava's mental health.

   "In Year 6 I'd say every single kid in her class had a smartphone except for her," said the charity worker.

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     Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 04:23:38 JST Inscius

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     @Flick The teachers expect the kids to have phones? That is disgusting. incompetence. Laziness.

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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 04:55:03 JST Flick ??

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     @inscius And at the age of eleven!

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     Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 04:55:03 JST Inscius

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     @Flick Yes. Horrible. Here they have pads/tablets in first grade, I heard. I hope not in kindergarten, but who knows..?

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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 12:21:57 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @inscius @Flick
     
     I'm really surprised that UK schools don't have filtering requirements. Typically, school issued tablets and Chromebooks are going to get some sort of content blocker, where personally-owned devices are not.
     
     So among all the other reasons they shouldn't be doing the "use your own phone" in the classroom, there's that.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 18:21:11 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @inscius @Flick They got free or were all meant to, as per usual SNP did some kind of fuck up there too, tablets or some type thing in the secondary schools here, but because they were free most of them then proceeded to treat them like junk and hurled them around and broke them.

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     • HebrideanHecate

     @HebrideanHecate @Flick Wasteful, but maybe good in the long run...