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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Thank god we're really going after the pressing issues of the day. Ready access to bite-sized chunks of instant gratification in the palm of the hand has done absolutely nothing for the attention span of young people (or adults). Unless the government is going to create some mandatory parenting laws about home screen time then school is as good a place as any to try to tackle it. Yes, this is a pressing issue because it involves the healthy mental development of the next generation. Rugz fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Thank god we're really going after the pressing issues of the day.
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TACD posted:Giddy with excitement thinking of all the ways this is inevitably going to backfire Can't report on shoddy concrete walls falling on kids if they can't phone ambulances.
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Notice the looks on the faces of the audience. They don't seem overly convinced. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1709157057062986105?s=20 Gyro Zeppeli posted:Thank god we're really going after the pressing issues of the day. Apparently she's now saying it won't be law but a 'recommendation'. Schools have been dealing with the issue of mobile phones in classrooms for a couple of decades now. Back in the early 80s it was dealing with Walkmen.
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Ban phones in Parliament. All they seem to use them for is looking at tractor porn and leaking WhatsApps to the Telegraph
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DreddyMatt posted:Mobile phones have been banned in schools since they became readily available back in the 90s. What the gently caress is this supposed to achieve? Now you get a criminal record for your crazy frog ringtone disrupting maths? Yeah, schools have been able to put in place restrictions on when children could use mobile phones in school for a long time already. So it just comes across as another non-policy announcement for something that already exists. Presumably it polls well with anyone that has no idea about schools though. Yet another thing the British Public are misinformed about.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Notice the looks on the faces of the audience. cool so now we're at the stage where they plain make poo poo up
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Sorry about that last post it's a draft post I made in 2009 that just got posted just now for some reason.
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The Donut posted:Yeah, schools have been able to put in place restrictions on when children could use mobile phones in school for a long time already. So it just comes across as another non-policy announcement for something that already exists. Presumably it polls well with anyone that has no idea about schools though. Yet another thing the British Public are misinformed about.
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Otoh while there are negatives to having phones there are also lots of good reasons a kid might need one - being able to contact parents etc. You don't know what individual circumstances are affecting any given kid outside of school. Seems very silly to have a blanket ban rather than just have things as they are now where teachers can say 'don't use them in class or we'll confiscate them till the end of the day'.
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andyf posted:Ugh you know it's bad when BBC news has to dedicate a page explaining that no, a 15 minute city is not a city where the council stop you travelling 15 minutes to go somewhere or decide how often you can go to the shops. edit: oh, and i see barclay's big announcement on restoring trust in the nhs is... amend the constitution to allow patients to refuse care from trans healthworkers (with applause lines for 'too much diversity' and 'we know what a woman is') https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/03/trans-hospital-patients-in-england-to-be-banned-from-female--and-male-only-wards really not looking forward to what the tories come back as after starmer's 'no hope is better than false hope' regime falls out of favour
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Guavanaut posted:A combination of the "7 bins and meat taxes" style of making poo poo up and the "we will crack down on [already illegal thing]" style of doing gently caress all, both popular with focus groups. Maybe he should propose banning crimes. 
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ThomasPaine posted:Otoh while there are negatives to having phones there are also lots of good reasons a kid might need one - being able to contact parents etc. You don't know what individual circumstances are affecting any given kid outside of school. Seems very silly to have a blanket ban rather than just have things as they are now where teachers can say 'don't use them in class or we'll confiscate them till the end of the day'. The problem with this is the same as the problem with a lot of other 'leave it up to the schools' things. Schools don't have the necessary power to actually do that, if a child refuses to hand in their phone, if a parent sides with their disruptive child over the school what does the school do? Expecting teachers to enforce a rule off their own authority when they are hamstrung by conflicting obligations and duty of care is just a losing proposition. And w.r.t individual circumstances, that is a responsibility for the adults (or past a certain age the young people) to communicate as to the reasons, but the default position should be 'You don't need this unless...' rather than 'You can have this until...'
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ThomasPaine posted:Otoh while there are negatives to having phones there are also lots of good reasons a kid might need one - being able to contact parents etc. You don't know what individual circumstances are affecting any given kid outside of school. Seems very silly to have a blanket ban rather than just have things as they are now where teachers can say 'don't use them in class or we'll confiscate them till the end of the day'. Teachers probably spend an unbelievable portion of their daily time and energy battling with kids over phone. You could easily implement some kind of system where the phone comes to school but gets put in a locker until break time, I don't think that especially Stalinist personally
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By the time my eldest was in year 10 tacit use of smartphones in the classroom to look things up etc was encouraged because it allowed use of IT equipment that might actually work reliably
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also seen as I'm shitposting on drugs rather than have more IK's just have a few regular posters who can take a brief poll of whether someone should gently caress off or not, and if it's a gently caress off and they don't follow, be able to probate like having the keys to the shotgun cabinet
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We of the fraternal order of badposts have deigned by council vote that you are Cringe, and may not post in this sacred place.
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granting executive power to the Mean Girls clique
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DesperateDan posted:also seen as I'm shitposting on drugs Yeah but you need an IK to carry out the Will Of The People Just make OwlFancier IK and check back in a month. It's not like it can't be undone and it won't give him the ability to forever destroy the thread. A trial period, if you will.
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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1709181011672662378 https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1709100439621280055 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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30 seconds in to that notion you'd have a secret Discord cabal purging Posting Enemies. 2 days in each member of the cabal would decide the true enemy is the other cunts in the cabal.
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There it is! That loving "spades in the ground" phrase! 
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DesperateDan posted:also seen as I'm shitposting on drugs That's what an IK is
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Skulker posted:30 seconds in to that notion you'd have a secret Discord cabal purging Posting Enemies. 2 days in each member of the cabal would decide the true enemy is the other cunts in the cabal. grand, so when can we start?
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Dabir posted:That's what an IK is that's a title though and folk are rightly suspect of that
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DesperateDan posted:that's a title though and folk are rightly suspect of that Bakunin: "Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of idiots, I refer to the authority of the idiot king"
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No wonder HS2 is taking so long. They should bring in some heavy duty earth moving equipment. Digging the entire thing with spades seems silly.
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Microplastics posted:Just catching up on the news and the only thing I've learned from various tory mouthpieces on HS2 is "spades are in the ground" Maybe if they'd used something more efficient like diggers it wouldn't be so over budget.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:No wonder HS2 is taking so long. They should bring in some heavy duty earth moving equipment. Do you want all the Irish navvies to be out of work?!?
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:No wonder HS2 is taking so long. They should bring in some heavy duty earth moving equipment. They're not stupid, there have been a lot of advancements in spade technology: 
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Where are you in this picture Jacabite?
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Runcible Cat posted:Do you want all the Irish navvies to be out of work?!? We need those lads for the Irish NAVY tbh, non drone boats work best when crewed. 
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DesperateDan posted:also seen as I'm shitposting on drugs Omg this sounds fun, The Council of UKMT
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