• kevinsky@feddit.nl
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    21 days ago

    Was this never a thing in the US previously?

    I distinctly remember from my school days (Western EU) mobile phones were to remain off and in backpacks.

    And those were still the days we you just had this relatively dumb flipphone that could litterally only call and text and if you were lucky had a potato camera as it’s main novelty.

    There was no access to internet, much less AI’s that can do your entire homework for you and they were already annoying to deal with for a teacher. Can’t imagine how that is now.

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      21 days ago

      Yeah, when I was a kid growing up in the US, no cell phones during class was the standard. If you took it out (or if it wasn’t on silent and rang during class) you got a warning, then next time it would be taken away and given back at the end of class or end of the school day with escalating consequences for repeated violations.