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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • The key thing is that teachers can ban phones in their individual classrooms if the school permits it.

    There are many schools in which the senior admin don’t institute phone bans (you’d be surprised how common this is).

    Legislating it helps maintain consistency and parity between schools nation wide, which is important as it’s a quality of education issue, so the policy should be consistent across all schools.

    I’m not from North America, but the situation is similar across most western democracies.


  • Wow that’s a lot

    Even if you got elected on that platform, you’d be lucky if you could push even one of those things through in an entire political career, even if it’s something popular that the people want.

    It’s a classic trap for the newly elected who promise the world and then realised that 99% of politics is horse trading and backdoor deals with beltway insiders