Decks of cards are usually banned in schools. The schools consider card games to be gambling (even if there are no stakes) and that’s not permitted on school premesis.
“usually”?
Not where I’m from (which isn’t NYC)
I grew up in the American public school system during pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards peak popularity. There were a whole lot of people who had card decks confiscated under such rules. I’ve lived in several states and while I don’t know the policies for everyone state I’ve lived in’s public schools, I do know that the school’s my son has attended also have such rules.
So I guess YMMV.
Yeah I remember in highschool trying to play MTG with some friends during study hall and having one of the monitors come over and tell us no card games were allowed because of gambling, except go-fish apparently? Idk why go-fish would be less possible to gamble on, but…
Start a gambling club that only plays high stakes go-fish games with real money
Yeah I think my friends and I had joked that we should play go fish and super obviously gambling and exchanging money, and when someone came over be like “I mean you guys did say go-fish is allowed.” Then if that was banned move to like betting on chess or something and get increasing ridiculous from there.
Also phones were fully allowed during our study halls so if people actually wanted to gamble they could very easily do so on them lol. I think game pigeon even has poker so you could basically do it undetectably via just a group chat.
Ok, got any mountains?
No take 10 damage and tap a creature in play.
Soliman said students sometimes physically leave the building and go out into the courtyard for a phone break to play games or check messages during free periods or lunch. “The benches are always full,” Soliman said.
JFC, kids, you make smoking look like an easy habit to kick.
Just wait until they learn about 'zines. They’re like scrolling TikTok, but written down, like for literate people. /s
This is the most boomer-y comment I’ve read in a while. I remember my parents saying shit like this about me and my NES.
Maybe it wouldn’t sound so boomer-y if you didn’t sit so close to the tv
Now go play outside for 16 hours straight.
Yeah, it was sarcastic. Sorry.
Your comment is like the embodiment of one of those “Kids don’t know how to swipe a book like an iPad” boomerslop comics
Added /s since that’s apparently want obvious
Settle down, grandpa. The world will spin another day if kids enjoy their free period a little bit.
Said in sarcasm. I figured the author intentionally wrote that passage to evoke the image of miners on a smoke break or something.
Kids learning to avoid government control and setting up covert communication seems like a very important lesson later in life these days.
Kids have been doing this always. Did you not pass notes or make up codes as a kid?
It’s just a new technology that weve allowed capitalists to ruin through creating addictions.
These phone pouches confuse me. They open with a simple magnet. Do they think kids don’t have access to magnets?
“the distribution of 350,000 internet-enabled Chromebooks, part of the city’s effort to replace aging devices obtained during the pandemic, and ensure that all students have access to technology in schools even as their personal devices are banned.”
Yeah, force kids to give all their data to the one company that is doing such a great job at securing it.
WTF?
My concern is just how disposable and unrepairable Chromebooks are. So much e-waste generated every 2-3 years.
Ewaste == corporate profits.
Kids spend far too much time in school on their phones. This is simply true.
Counter point to this tho: Kids go to school knowing a shooting can happen at any time and need to have their phones for if that happens.
I can’t support restricting phones before we restrict firearms.
Why don’t they just have rules like we did years ago. Have your phone out in class and you get a lunch detention, next time a detention, 3rd time sent to the office with a recommendation for suspension.
Kids have to learn to be responsible… They will have their phone on them everywhere else in life, like work. Learning to be responsible about it seems like education.
I fervently agree with your hypothesis, but i dont think you know what it is like inside public schools these days. “Shut up bitch” is the likely response to enforcing that lol
So the solution is to start from a place of distrust? If you treat children like they’ve already done something wrong, what reason do they have left to behave? It also seems pretty damaging to their development to teach them that being treated this way be default is good or right.
If it’s a problem, sure, take them away. But not even giving them the chance to show some level of responsibility early, even if it’s likely they might not do it, is both lazy, and developmentally damaging.
Pick up the phone call the security guard to come escort them to the office for a 30 day suspension. Happens again expelled.
You can start day one with a message on the board that you have a zero tolerance policy for disrespect
The teachers are there to educate not parent. If the kids aren’t afraid of getting in trouble then it’s the guardians problem. Public education is something that is supposed to be available so kids can learn, and we have turned it into a place to dump your dependents so they can go to work apparently.
Sort of agree?
Yeah, guns must be banned completely in the US, fully agree, but phones in class too. Waiting with one for the other won’t make anything better
I’m assuming firearms are also restricted in NYC schools.
Yeah but the thing with mass shooters is that they don’t give a fuck what the law says.
No, they don’t. But anyone who could smuggle in a phone could smuggle in a gun.
Yeah, and again: the thing with mass shooters is that they don’t give a fuck what the law says.
They’re not going to go through the phone checkpoint, they’re just gonna open fire. This would not stop a mass shooting.
Maybe tell teachers to teach better ?? Especially math & science teachers.
How do students having phones help in a shooting?
Is this a serious question? Replace “shooting” with any other emergency.
you’re joking right?
Calling police, calling parents, etc.
Police can be called by the teacher that’s also in the room. They never come in time anyways. Calling parents just reduces situational awareness by distracting the panicked kids.
Oh ok I didn’t realize you had survived multiple school shootings. Sorry you live in america.
“The teachers are the first ones to complain, ‘Oh, you were late, da da da da.’ I’m like, ‘I was on the line, like, what do you want me to do?’”
Yeah… I would walk right tf out of there.
Really now, would you?
I was on the line, like, what do you want me to do?
Wake up 5 minutes earlier so that next time you won’t be late. OMG, how dare I even say that out loud
Nobody has cellphones in schools for hundreds of years and after a few years of having them it’s funny to see how all kids think that it’s impossible and a human rights violation to be without
Dude. She was late because of a massive long line for the security checks that the school created. The girl was at school on time. The line took a shit tonne of time to get her through. Did you read the article?
If the bus is late, does the student get marked late? No. If the administration forces the student to go through extra checks that makes the on-time student late, why does the student get marked late?
I honestly love this
Yes take away the one tool that is basically required for modern adult life.
*required by capitalism for “modern” life. Literally no one actually needs a phone. But samsung and apple do need to keep their slave labor producing products for consumers.
Ok, try living in America without a phone.
Like any phone, even a landline? I should have referred more to smartphones i guess. But still, the only reason we “need” them is corporate greed driven. No one needs more than a landlines or a jitterbug at most.
So they’re treating kids like prisoners?
As if school wasn’t already a prison with all the metal detectors and xray machines.
What school has metal detectors and xray machines?!?
Like, most of the US
Eh, I know US-bashing is really popular here, but it has to be at least a little bit believable to be funny.
Not only do i work in a district that uses metal detectors, but employs security guards to keep the kids in line. Even down to elementary level.
My highschool literally had those and I had to wait in a long-ass line everyday before school, and if students are late, they get blamed for it, I’m not US-Bashing, its just the truth.
Example (this one is not my school btw):
There’s absolutely no way that’s true.
Some dont even allow non clear bags to be brought in.
What reality do you live in?
