• throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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    This needs a majority of other kids to also no have smartphone. If there only a few kids whose parents decided to not give them smartphones, you’re kinda subjecting them to a childhood/teenhood without friendship.

    Source: I kinda just became a loner because I didn’t have a phone and my peers were in groupchats and sharing memes. Thanks, Mom; and Thanks, Society 🙃

    Edit: And since some schools are underfunded and doesn’t have enough chromebooks for everyone, teachers would make kids use their phone to do classwork (on google classroom). Not giving your kid a smartphone can be detrimental, its not gonna work unless the entire school admin is on board with it.

    Your grades can literally drop from not having a smartphone. Insanity, I know.

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      “This needs a majority of other kids to also no have smartphone.”

      100% agree, that’s the whole point of the organization and other orgs like it. They founded it to raise awareness and to get families to support each other. A group mindset against phones in childhood and early adolescence, which I agree is much more difficult if you’re the only one without one.

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        I mean, I would’ve probably lost any friends I would’ve made after highschool ends, so I don’t think it was like a huge loss either way. But like not having friends during highschool kinda contributed to my depression.

        Like this comment is not me complaining about not having a phone, its more of a “why the fuck is everyone in my school constantly on their phone” complaint.

        Its not the “not having a phone” part that made me sad, but the social exclusion. Get what I’m saying?

        So if this “phone ban” thing is gonna happen, it has to be either all or nothing, not some half-assed “voluntary” shit where half of the class is pressured by the other half for not having a phone.

        And since some schools are underfunded and doesn’t have enough chromebooks for everyone, teachers would make kids use their phone to do classwork (on google classroom). Not giving your kid a smartphone can be detrimental, its not gonna work unless the entire school admin is on board with it.

        Your grades can literally drop from not having a smartphone. Insanity, I know.