@dalias @futurebird sounds like it's just a moral panic coming from the left rather than the right to me. I don't buy into moral panics, regardless of their origins. I do buy into classrooms where the teacher can manage a little teaching, which is a major problem with literally every middle and high school teacher I know here. If you wanna blow it up into a slippery slope of hypotheticals, go right ahead, but you're not going to convince me that in-class phone use is the solution to abusers.
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If you got to write legislation to "protect young people online" and it will be passed and enacted in good faith what, if anything, would you propose?@dalias @futurebird firmly disagree on all fronts. Don't throw out "abusive" so lightly, it wildly devalues the term.
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If you got to write legislation to "protect young people online" and it will be passed and enacted in good faith what, if anything, would you propose?@futurebird I don’t buy the safety thing, though. That’s what the office phone has always been for, every individual kid doesn’t need to keep their finger on the pulse of the world
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If you got to write legislation to "protect young people online" and it will be passed and enacted in good faith what, if anything, would you propose?@futurebird I mean, I 100% agree with this, but I don’t think KY is going to rapidly change their education funding any time soon, and class sizes here are nuts (my wife teaches, her sister teaches, I’m occasionally in classrooms for music ed stuff). Until now, teachers have had to, as individuals, enforce phone policies that were not backed by state or district policies. Now there is a clear ban, which takes that losing fight away from the overworked teachers.
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If you got to write legislation to "protect young people online" and it will be passed and enacted in good faith what, if anything, would you propose?@futurebird one of the few things KY got right is formally banning phones in schools. Doesn’t change their online behavior *outside* of schools, but it does force them to have a period of no screen time and to have to cope with that.
Alternative pitch that actually addresses online content: begin formally controlling addictive design in social media and gaming. Any other addictive thing (gambling, substances) is legally controlled, but not digital concepts. Seems like a temporary loophole.