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B.C. bans cellphone use in schools, prohibits protests (vancouver.citynews.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those no phones in school rules would have absolutely killed me since I always listened to music in-between classes in highschool. Especially freshman world history class since I kinda relied on my phone for the digital textbook since I almost lost my physical copy I got loaned from the bookstore.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

You can get a cheap mp3 player for literally $5. Digital textbooks can be viewed just fine on a laptop, and schools have hundreds of those.

Smart phones are addiction machines. I'm very glad to see schools banning them. Hopefully, parents take note and realize how harmful they are for child development and start buying them dumb phones instead until they're older (16+).