Ontario is introducing a suite of measures that will crack down on cellphone use and vaping in schools.

  • @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    When I was in high school, if you got caught using your cell phone in class, you got it taken away and your parents had to come pick it up. Has this changed?

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      When I was in highschool (early '10s) I remember successfully arguing that since laptops were allowed in class we should be allowed to use our phones for schoolwork too. Whether that was actually good is debatable. I did actually type the majority of my work on my phone but I also wasted a lot of time screwing around, although the same could be said for the computer lab and I’m sure it would’ve been the same if I ever had a laptop.

      (One note, apparently the school I went to was kind of weird, and only half your classes were actually lessons by your own teacher. Generally all devices were restricted during those classes, with limited exceptions on a teacher-by-teacher basis.)

    • @spyd4r
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      17 months ago

      Lol cellphones and pagers were for drug dealers! /s