• balderdash
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    961 year ago

    I can try to make the material interesting and be engaging but if you’re watching Overwatch on your phone all of that is a moot point.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      111 year ago

      but if you’re watching Overwatch

      You can just take away their phone in that case, no?
      Not sure about OP, but my point is that phones can be useful. But if they’re clearly not…

      • @kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world
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        191 year ago

        That means teachers would have to discipline, which means that the superintendent or school board would have to pay a fair salary and give fair tools, which means the state or city would have to up the budget, which means that we wouldn’t be able to repave the roads in the nice part of town next spring.

        • @TheHighRoad@lemmy.world
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          101 year ago

          What Utopia do you live in where the reason doesn’t end with “which means we won’t be able to line the pockets of our friends’ companies?”

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        61 year ago

        having to look at what the kid is doing and judge things on a case by case basis would eat into lesson time which is already stretched thin with class management as it is