Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to talk secretly in class

Re:Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to tal... by casion on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:53PM (#22113476)

I'm confused as to why kids are allowed to have airpods in their ears in class at all?

It's really not difficult to figure out when a kid is trying to hide it. (source: I'm a teacher of adolescents)

I can only assume that this is either allowed (implicitly or explicitly) or this is in schools where teachers are so overloaded that any sort of message passing would probably go unpunished anyway.

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Re:Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to tal... by gowld on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:13PM (#22113590)

Some people have long hair

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Re:Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to tal... by Waterluvian on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @11:01PM (#22114490)

Wouldn't matter. Teens are just terrible at hiding anything in class. You can even just tell when their focus is elsewhere.

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Re:Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to tal... by Already__Taken on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:48PM (#22119986)

Many classes aren't lectures, rather you're sat there completing work. On the face of it allowing headphones isn't unreasonable.

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Re:Kids are swapping AirPods and using text-to-speech to tal... by bgrynol on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @10:04PM (#22114194)

Thought about this too...the whole headphones in class thing is confusing haha

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