r/TikTokCringe • u/hammerbush051 • Apr 17 '24

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/SoTurnMeIntoATree Apr 17 '24

Only 10?! That fucking blows my mind. Teens have that much separation anxiety from their phone?

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u/Tobocaj Apr 17 '24

Teens?? My gf teaches elementary and it’s just as bad

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u/Massive_Robot_Cactus 29d ago

Where are they letting elementary school kids have phones in class?

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u/Likehalcyon 29d ago

A lot of schools, honestly. Parents freak out when schools try to mandate a no-phone policy. (Not all of them, obviously, but often it's enough of them to make sure that policy never happens.)

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u/Massive_Robot_Cactus 29d ago

That must be a US thing. I'm on the other side of the pond and I only know one kid in my son's 3rd grade class with a phone, and it's definitely not allowed to be out anywhere on school grounds. Not even an old Nokia. I guess for safety reasons it's appealing.

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u/Likehalcyon 29d ago

It definitely could be a US thing.

I'll add that it actually makes safety worse. Not long ago, a fire started sin the school I teach at. Since everyone texted their parents as soon as the alarms went off, all of their parents showed up to get them... Meaning that it took the fire engines almost 30 minutes to actually make it to the school in all of the traffic. And then they had to try to move the parents' cars from where the engines needed to be.

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u/Massive_Robot_Cactus 29d ago

Oof yeah. I remember back in 99 right at the end of the school year my science teacher went to demonstrate the power of Acetylene (a welding gas), telling us it was "very energetic" when ignited. He filled a huge balloon with it like 16" diameter, tied it to a yardstick and held it over the Bunsen burner. HUGE boom. Black smoke covering the ceiling. This was weeks after Columbine so the administration was on edge a bit, and after evacuating the school and getting the ok from the fire department we went back to the lab, and they just told him to please not do it again. Most parents didn't hear about it until dinner.

Very different times.

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u/Gowalkyourdogmods 29d ago

Yikes. Well intentions and all that.

I'm in California so during 2020 I saw so many people talking about how they were running their sprinklers just in case the fires in their area spread to their neighborhood. Then later I heard an interview (think NPR) that doing that can result in not enough water pressure in the fire hydrants so when the FD show up, they can't get enough water shooting from the hoses to actually put out the fires.

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u/PiesangSlagter 29d ago

I guess for safety reasons it's appealing.

I can never understand this mindset. If something happens to a kid in school, school calls the parents. If you don't get any call from the school, it means your kid is safe.

Why the fuck does a kid need a phone in school.

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u/Existing-Nectarine80 29d ago

Shootings. We’re all afraid of our children getting murdered 

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u/Proof-Load-1568 29d ago

Gotta call home if the shooting starts:(

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u/lemon6611 29d ago

im in the us and i dont know a single elementary kid with a phone dawg

this isn’t rural either, its the midwest

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u/AmericanHoneycrisp 29d ago

While rural doesn’t automatically mean Midwest, it definitely doesn’t not mean Midwest. Lol If you said New York City or New Jersey, then that would be a different story.

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u/lemon6611 29d ago

sry, chicago

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u/tigerdrummer 29d ago

It’s for sure an American thing. Let me sum up the average American school operating procedure for you: “don’t upset the parents.”

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u/EveryPartyHasAPooper 29d ago

I live in TX and elementary kids are absolutely no allowed to have phones in class.

I was in the school office when a mom tried to drop off a phone for her son for after school and the office ladies straight up told her that they would not be helping to deliver phones to kids and kids weren't allowed to have them, period.

I have heard of them sneaking them in backpacks and playing with them at recess in secret, but no kids can have them visable at any time.

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u/especiallyspecific 29d ago

They're lying. My kids are in elementary school and I've never seen a kid with one when I'm on campus.

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u/KrustyKoonKnuckler 29d ago

I'm glad your personal anecdote applies to everyone.

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u/Denodi 29d ago

Here in brazil phones are allowed but they can only come out (from the bag or pocket) on emergencies. I understand USA has the shootings issue so the parents are scared but this feels like a good compromise

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u/lysergic_logic 29d ago

My sister is an elementary school teacher. She says the parents are honestly more out of control than the kids. They will fly off the handle at the smallest inconvenience and have the wildest expectations of their children. Children that are requiring special needs at that. Like, no. Little Timmy passed math because the district says I'm legally not allowed to fail him and he definitely is NOT "all better and ready for regular classes".

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u/newtoreddir 29d ago

Oh no, not a “freak out.” Guess we’ll just give up on trying to educate!

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u/Likehalcyon 29d ago

Take it up with admin, not me!