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A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students
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You don't have to have patience with it you just have to deal with it.
I also think that it's a problem that teachers spend to much time on their phones and have mental health problems.
Unfortunately teachers don't "have to deal with it"
When they get fed up they quit, and then random unqualified people get hired to fill the needs and they end up being the ones who don't give a shit either way and spend their day on the phones.
You won't get good teachers if the working conditions are shit, and students these days are the main problem creating the shitty working conditions.
I'd place my bet on administrative bloat hogging too many resources. Making teachers move on to more lucrative professions because teaching isn't worth all the headaches it entails for what they are bringing home at the end of the day.
"I may have mental health problems, but you also have mental health problems" does not...strike me as an argument against lessened social media use....
If the instructors were doing this, they'd need to be fired because they are not doing their job. If the students are doing this, well, you can't fire them from learning, so it needs to be handled at the source.
Would also be pretty neat if we gave the educational system perhaps a money, and the problem is probably exacerbated by all that future the students tangibly don't have. But a heavy increase in counseling won't make anyone listen. I vote for addressing both, both is good.
I also forsee a handful of court cases when parents inevitably make their kids' "non-minor" accounts because they just want to be left alone.