What I don’t understand is when did phones become allowed in schools? I was at secondary school from 2005-2010 and phone’s were banned throughout.
Stanford study finds school phone bans may trigger “withdrawal symptoms” in students
Submitted 2 days ago by Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/school-cellphone-bans-study-22248101.php
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LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 2 days ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Researchers believe that the students, especially younger ones, may have turned to more disruptive behavior when they no longer had access to their phones.
Yeah, no shit? Phones tend to serve as a distraction that kills boredom; disruptive behavior is frequently (maybe usually) the result of boredom.
“One conjecture is that this resembles, to some degree, withdrawal symptoms,” he said. “Students are unhappy and disruptive the moment their phones are taken away.”
They’re understandably bored and then, understandably, try to kill their boredom in other, more disruptive ways. I for one very much prefer students being on their phones (or other devices) to beating each other up, damaging property, or psychologically insulting each other out of boredom! No idea what about this is supposed to resemble withdrawal symptoms.
meowmeow@quokk.au 2 days ago
Crybabies. Ffs. Having been addicted to opiates, and nicotine, fuck you.
glitchy_nobody@leminal.space 2 days ago
Everyone’s struggle is valid, everyone handles different stresses in different ways. Bullying people won’t make them fit in the box you have made for them.
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 2 days ago
It’s a bullshit headline. The researchers were using an addiction metaphor to explain minor behavioural changes and the writer posted “withdrawal symptoms!”