California To Require All School Districts To Restrict Student Smartphone Use by 2026 (ktla.com) 39
Starting in July 2026, every public school district in California will be required to have policies on the books that restrict or prohibit students from using smartphones during the school day, thanks to Assembly Bill 3216 that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law back in 2024.
The legislation also mandates that districts update these policies every five years. Newsom had previously signed related legislation in 2019, though that earlier law merely affirmed that school districts have the authority to regulate smartphone use rather than requiring them to do so.
The legislation also mandates that districts update these policies every five years. Newsom had previously signed related legislation in 2019, though that earlier law merely affirmed that school districts have the authority to regulate smartphone use rather than requiring them to do so.
Re:Wait until the next school shooting (Score:4, Interesting)
On a more serious note, schools still have PA systems. Teachers will still have their phones available...
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Do you not remember Columbine? The school was able to lock down before smart phones even existed. Or for that matter Sandy Hook? That was an elementary school; it's highly unlikely any kids there had smart phones but they were able to lock down as well. We don't need smart phones to protect students from mass shooters. More so, this applies to students and not teachers; teachers will still be able to communicate and coordinate.
What do you have against kids talking to their parents for what might be the last time? Who is this "We" for whom you shill? The corrupt control structure of the US school system?
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Do you not remember Columbine? The school was able to lock down before smart phones even existed. Or for that matter Sandy Hook? That was an elementary school; it's highly unlikely any kids there had smart phones but they were able to lock down as well. We don't need smart phones to protect students from mass shooters. More so, this applies to students and not teachers; teachers will still be able to communicate and coordinate.
What do you have against kids talking to their parents for what might be the last time? Who is this "We" for whom you shill? The corrupt control structure of the US school system?
I don't know if you're building some strange straw man argument here or if you're just out to waste my time with that, but I'll also point out that a kid on a phone is only going to be making noise and end up doing more to draw in the attention of a shooter. Smart phones in the hands of kids don't do anything to help this situation; I could just as easily ask if you're shilling for Samsung, Apple, or the phone companies in pretending otherwise.
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What do you have against kids talking to their parents for what might be the last time?
We should be focusing on not guiding a child's fate down the path where they are in a situation they need to call Mom and Dad one last time.
Or at least make sure children have good enough penmanship to be able to write a final letter.
A father found his kidnapped daughter (Score:2)
I no longer trust the police in the wake of uvalde. It's clear the police prioritize their own safety over the safety of children.
My kid isn't in school anymore but if I did have a kid in school (or if my kid ever makes enough money that they can afford their own kids) then I can honestly say that if their school was under attack I would want to know it so I could go there myself and try to save them. Because the police sure shit aren't going to do it.
And I'm going to find o
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If your kid is laying low and keeping quiet, their odds of survival are far better than if they are calling you on a
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I wonder how other countries manage?
Oh geez. They don't seem to have school shootings at anywhere near the rate of the US. I wonder what could possibly be the reason for that?
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Those are countries with cultures that love children more than they love the narrow specific right to own certain categories of firearms.
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The cops will just stand around with their thumbs up their asses like Uvalde. They managed to handcuff a parent at least.
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Well, when the cops run and hide instead of helping the children that they are specifically on-site to protect (Parkland) or refuse to pull their thumbs out of their asses, put down the doughnuts, and help the children they were called in to save (Uvalde); and in both cases cheerfully allowing the children to be slaughtered, refusing to so much as lift a finger, and in the latter case actively preventing others from helping the children...
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The Parkland case is interesting. Police procedure says that they are to immediately engage the shooter. In typical cop fashion he stood around and told everyone to stay away. They tried to prosecute him but of course we can't have accountability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Time to fix the P.A.
That's how we used to get notices for tornadoes, bomb threats, etc. back in the olden days when elementary students didn't have smart phones.
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Also should (Score:4, Insightful)
They also need to restrict the use of AI in schools.... The downfall of American education
Re: Also should (Score:4, Informative)
First signs show that Ai has a polarizing effect. Long story short, the smart kids use it to learn. The others let it make their homework. End result? Smart kids get smarter. The others dumb down. Of course it is not that clear cut.
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This is why homework should be reading and repetition, not where you are supposed to learn things or prove you know them. That should happen in class.
Unfortunately most teachers don't have time to teach.
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Then reverse the class. Let the student learn stuff at home, using AI if th
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The only remedy will ultimately be the doing away of homework assignments that count as part of the grade
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Wrong.
AI could be the future of education with expert personal tutors available to all students.
The one size fits all model of education is broken. Smart students are bored, not-so-smart ones are confused and left behind because the there is only one teacher and a large class of students of varying talent.
Addiction specialists should be next (Score:2, Interesting)
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"The one size fits all model of education is broken. "
It was broken the moment this method was being pushed. What worked was "One size fits MOST". You direct your resources on educating those who can benefit from the "Most" of the "one size". The ones that this doesn't work with is now a much smaller subset and can be managed with smaller class sizes (in the case of hands on need), special campuses (for behavior issues that would otherwise affect the "fits all" of the hated "one size fits all") and a muc
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Oh... less administrators. Never mind. Unions will hate it. Just shut up and give them more money.
I can't speak to all cases of "administrators", but I can very much speak to one case in higher education where I was employed for some time.
Where I worked, employees were grouped into three different bins, depending on their role. There were "faculty" (rather self-explanatory), "civil service" (mostly janitors, along with lab techs, some librarians, and other roles), and "professional and administrative (or P&A)". The P&A was often misconstrued in the public to be composed entirely of admini
Or.. (Score:3)
You can give your teachers back the ability to fail students, much less give them less than A. It's over. If you are American, please send your children over seas for their schooling.
Québec had this rule in effect since Se (Score:2)
And everyone are very happy, grade are better, physical activities are better. Nobody complain
Calculator In Your Pocket (Score:3)
"You won't be walking around with a calculator in your pocket all day when you're an adult!" - teachers in the 90's and earlier.
"NO, you can't have a global communications network with the sum of all human knowledge attached to a tiny super computer in your pocket!!!!!" - teachers today
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"You won't be walking around with a calculator in your pocket all day when you're an adult!" - teachers in the 90's and earlier.
As a product of a 90s education, I've heard that very troupe. But the underlying point of it still stands: If you can't do basic math in your head, or with pen and paper, you're certainly at a significant disadvantage in life.
"NO, you can't have a global communications network with the sum of all human knowledge attached to a tiny super computer in your pocket!!!!!" - teachers today
Same applies here. If you're incapable of paying attention to anything beyond a 5" screen you're being set up for failure in life. I'm 100% glad my kids were all (mostly) done with school by the time cellphones essentially became mandatory. If I had younger ones I would absolutely be
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Back in my day, we texted on dumb phones (Score:1)
Trash-talked and gossiped on AIM running on Windows 95 while staring at a glorious 15 inch crt (17 inches if your dad was rich), and occasionally passed dead-tree notes around in class.
Enforcement... (Score:2)
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As in, who can do what when a student says
Detention.
Bannedin Québec schools (Score:2)