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Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by soysandwhich on Sunday December 15, 2024 @10:39PM (#42427825)
> Your paper planner won't inform you that your first hour is in another building tomorrow or that the teacher is ill (and yes, the schedules would change less than 12 hours in advance).

Strangely, we (Gen X) managed to do it, w/o being up2date. So you came into school and found out teacher's ill, etc? Cry me a river.

We even managed to do w/o knowing if our friend was available - we just rang the doorbell. Imagine - all w/o a phone! Not even had a landline!

Bees dorksy parents, i see...

Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by space_oddity on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:57AM (#42428633)
Ah, the classic "we managed just fine back in the day" argument
Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by jeroenhd on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:00AM (#42428646)
You managed, good for you! Thankfully, we got it better, and kids these days have it even better. I don't see how that's a bad thing, every generation should strive to make things better for the next ones.
Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by rrr_oh_man on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:02AM (#42429258)
Is argue 'better'. Different, yes. More gadgets, yes. Better? I’m not so sure.
Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by arrowsmith on Monday December 16, 2024 @06:54AM (#42430230)
I don't think it's "better" to make kids check a multitude of ever-changing apps and screens just to find out their timetable for the day.

What on earth is the point? When I was a kid we just had the same timetable repeating every week. It changed once a year, at the beginning of the academic year, meaning that within a few weeks I knew it from memory and didn't need to keep looking it up.

In the extremely rare event that things deviated from the timetable, the school found a way to tell us. It's not hard to convey a message to a group of students when you know exactly which room they'll physically be in at any given moment; another advantage of a fixed timetable.

If the school can't accomplish such basic tasks as scheduling a simple timetable, that's the adults' problem, not the children's.

Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by toyg on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:43AM (#42432702)
> make kids check a multitude of ever-changing apps

Hey, it's perfect to train the next generation of Deliveroo riders and Uber drivers...

Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by pionaryon on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:39AM (#42428835)
And programmers back in the day managed just fine with punch cards...
Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper by maccard on Monday December 16, 2024 @03:57AM (#42429233)
You also managed to get by without a bank account. Just take your paycheck down to the post office, cash it, and pay your mortgage this month.

Try doing that today and see how you get on. Like it or not, the world is changing