How America Outlawed Adolescence (2016)

(theatlantic.com)

8 points | by colinprince a day ago

6 comments

  • musicale a few seconds ago

    > One monday morning last fall, at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, a 16-year-old girl refused to hand over her cellphone to her algebra teacher.

    I was never a fan of teachers confiscating things, but there is a long history of certain items being prohibited in class.

    Perhaps there could be more collaborative development of rules and enforcement policies, including input from teachers, students, and parents.

  • 331c8c71 20 hours ago

    I am coming from the opposite side. Restraining mechanisms in schools are much weaker where I live and since I happen to know a few teachers I know very well that the teenage classes often become pure chaos and hell, typically in the classes formed of teenagers with lower educational attainment.

    Few misbehaving and defiant teens have immense power to impose disastrous externalities on their peers and the teachers. Too disastrous, in fact, to just let it go.

    • euroderf 18 hours ago

      Phones are co-conspirators here. Very disruptive.

  • devops99 20 hours ago

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    • superb_dev 18 hours ago

      Is this some bizarre LLM generated advertisement for T-Mobile?