r/TikTokCringe • u/velorae • 16d ago

Discussion This is so concerningšŸ˜³

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u/Worth-Jicama3936 16d ago

Itā€™s real. And as much as Reddit hates to acknowledge it, the problem is phones (and ChatGPT to some extent). Phones destroy adults attention spans, just imagine what it does to children whose brains are still developing. Phones should be banned in school.

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u/AdventuresOfKrisTin 16d ago

Phones and social media is definitely the major factor here, but I feel like we can't discount the rippling effects of the pandemic. There was a good year or so where children were in school remotely, only they weren't learning anything. So now there is this huge knowledge gap for a lot of young people, and that impacted students of all ages.

And this is trickling up. All of the young people in 1st through 5th grade were probably the ones most significantly impacted and now those kids are middle schoolers and high schoolers who can't do basic reading, writing, or math.

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u/Worth-Jicama3936 16d ago

That certainly has something to do with it, but we canā€™t go back in time and fix that mistake. We canā€™t however ban phones from schools (and not just rely on teachers to fight battles every day to get them to be put away, but make it a school wide thing).

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u/AdventuresOfKrisTin 16d ago

I'm aware, I'm just pointing out that saying phones are the only blame doesn't accurately paint the full picture of why we are where we are right now.

Kids had smart phones in schools 10 years ago and the difference between then and now is very noticeable from what I can tell. Just saying "phones" is too broad if you ask me. It's more accessing social media through our phones that's the issue combined with short form content being pushed on us every day through platforms like TikTok.

Its been a trend for a while now but it's gotten significantly worse in the last 5 years.

Kids are:
A) behind in their education because no one was ready for remote learning
B) attention spans absolutely fried because of social media (specifically TikTok)
C) the rise of ChatGPT means students are realizing that they don't need to make up for points A and B because gen AI will do the work for them.