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A comment on France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools. Parent comment
If I had to guess, probably 80% of my school time was idle time so boring it felt like sensual deprivation.
There was little else to do than bullying each other.
If phones would've been a thing back then I'd remember rich experiences instead of the destructive time sink I remember now.
(Germany, school from 1996 until 2009; currently working on econ PhD)
"Sensory deprivation".
If I had to guess, probably 80% of my school time was idle time so boring it felt like sensual deprivation.
There was little else to do than bullying each other.
If phones would've been a thing back then I'd remember rich experiences instead of the destructive time sink I remember now.
(Germany, school from 1996 until 2009; currently working on econ PhD)