Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

Re:Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools by xwdv on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:47AM (#36877648)

Are you serious… as a kid pulling out a Gameboy in the middle of class and just sitting there playing a game would feel like a death sentence. The equivalent of walking into a bank with an assault rifle firing wildly in the air.

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Re:Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools by falcolas on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:00AM (#36878812)

And yet children playing games on their phones and aren't the equivalent of your wildly inappropriate metaphor?

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Re:Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools by edgyquant on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:03PM (#36879995)

Because phones are treated way differently than gameboys were

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Re:Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools by kjkjadksj on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:11PM (#36880105)

Its a lot easier to use a phone one handed discretely than a gameboy

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