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Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by criddell on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:33PM (#26838147)
A cell phone was basically considered a required item like binders and pens at my kids' school. Rather than ban them, they try to encourage appropriate use.

For example, they encourage the use of the calendar app for tracking assignments and test dates. They use the camera to capture information for homework. Kids have projects that sometimes involves recording audio or shooting video. There's also a twitter-like app that the teacher can use to broadcast to students and students can use to communicate with the teacher.

Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by mujina93 on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:50PM (#26839436)
This is probably one of the few right approaches that can be realistically employed. Everything else is quite utopian and difficult to achieve, unfortunately.
Re:Dear Zuckerberg, We're writing to urge you to cancel Inst... by swiley on Saturday April 17, 2021 @07:18AM (#26843385)
Hopefully they don't force the kids to use services though. I know one class my sister took required the use of facebook which is pretty terrible.