We're talking about kids, not adults. You ban cell phones for the same we weren't allowed to play our Gameboy during class when I was a kid. They lack the self control and decision making capabilities to forgo something fun for the sake of something important.

Not to mention we have plenty of studies that show even a silent phone sitting quietly in your pocket or on your desk can be an attention drain, as you're subconsciously waiting for a notification to go off.

I'm amazed it took this long for the schools to finally ban the damn things.

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caderosche 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't disagree that people lack self control.

My only disagreement is that bans on cellphone-like tech will be at all enforceable in the near future.

	▲	scuff3d 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They're kids... Even in some dystopian ass scifi future we all have implants in our eyes or some shit, we aren't doing that to kids...

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rootusrootus 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> We're talking about kids, not adults.

Frankly, I believe the world would be a better place if we did a lot more banning of smartphones for adults, too. They are like crack.

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scuff3d 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I quit all social media (unless you count hackernews I guess), killed all notifications except calls and text messages, and regularly leave my phone in another room while I'm working or doing anything that requires prolonged attention. Helped a lot.

	▲	kingbiz 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm doing the same thing except YouTube and certain niche subreddits have been very hard for me to kill off. Also apps that I want to check up on every now and then get put behind a firewall so they can only access the network when I allow them to, but some are still able to send me notifications despite being blocked. I need to figure out how they are getting around that or better yet just uninstall the app. After I killed off all the big tech social media slop I found notifications for random things to be almost as bad.