Haven't been in school for a minute but they would never allow us to just be freely on our phones so idk wtf you're talking about.

I haven't been to school in a while, but we had smartphones when I did. And if we took up our phones in class we got called out by the teacher.

I think the fact that most commenters seem to think kids should use cell phones in class confirms Lemmy is mostly children

When I was in school smartphones were kinda a thing but it was still early iPhone/Android days. The general practice was a powered off phone on one's person is fine, but phones that are in use/ringing could be confiscated for the remainder of the period. I think that was because the school didn't have a good method to handle too many confiscated phones in a day

“It’s fine if it’s in a bag and off or silent” has been cell phone policy in my experience (decades ago).

I've been out of school for a decade now, but honestly at least when I was playing Hill Climb Racing, I shut the fuck up and didn't disturb others. Otherwise I'd just be blabbering with my friends and that's a much bigger issue for other students.

I graduated with pretty much all 5s and just one or two 4s. Our scale goes up to 5. So it's not like I was a dumbass who just refused to learn. You just can't give a fast learner with ADHD the textbook and expect him to not know all of the course material a week in. It's changed now, but my teenage brain was capable of processing enormous amounts of new information really fast (except subjects that were straight up memorization of facts, like history). I had literally nothing to do in class after the first week or 2 of a course.

What teacher allows kids to use their phones during class?

My kids school “boxes” phones if you’re caught using them or they interrupt class. They lock them inside a clear plastic case and let you carry that.

This avoids liability because the kid still has possession of their phone and can still see an emergency text or call. The can’t interact with the phone but can get a teacher to unlock if there’s a visible emergency text

Yeah, I really don't understand what changed or why. By the time I was in high school, pretty much everyone had a cell phone, but they'd get confiscated if they went off in class or we were caught using them during school hours, and that included all break periods. I remember a teacher threatening to take my phone away when I was using my phone to call my dad for a ride home after I had finished my exams for the day. For high school kids, I could see arguments on both sides for whether they should be allowed during breaks, but definitely not during class periods.

Things were a little more flexible in college, but they were still expected to be silent, and some professors would ask you to leave the class if your phone went off or was otherwise causing a distraction.

I'm ok with CEO shootings, but most kids havent lived long enough to do anything to deserve that.

Remind me, where in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand does Verizon operate?

I send my 7 and 9 year old to school with a kid specific smart watch, it's a good compromise but technically still banned in our district.

We should ban kids under 16 OUTSIDE of schools