Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
This is so wrong in so many ways.<p>- There&#x27;s supposed to be a computer in front of every kid since grade one. Schools are instead banning the little computers kids smuggle in.<p>- Hypocrisy. Smartphone bans are pushed by people who use them all the time themselves.<p>- This is the same thing as with corporations locking down employees&#x27; computers. It&#x27;s a policy designed for the worst behaving kids to the detriment of the best behaving ones. Poor use of time and poor self-control become expected and even the best kids will slide towards these low expectations.<p>- Totalitarian policies like this get passed only because teens and tweens are disenfranchised. Democratic government trying to enforce similar population-wide ban wouldn&#x27;t last long.<p>- It&#x27;s not about games or social media. Those are actually tolerated far better than apps like Socratic, which are treated like criminal level of cheating. This is technophobia all the way through.<p>I could go on and on about this. Contrary to people nitpicking details (health, parent contact, practicality of enforcement), I think this is fundamentally wrong.