Telling School Boards - To Ban the Phone Now!

Lawsuits are great, but you can’t claim the moral high ground when you allow access to the very product you despise on your own school property.

I must say it was nice to see the Ontario School Boards sue the big social media companies for deliberately hurting students. 

While many don’t believe the school boards will prevail in this case, many are hoping it will draw more awareness to the dangers to children of unfettered access to social media. I would share that sentiment, but I take a dim view of virtue signals and hollow gestures when the safety of kids are at stake. 

The school boards must take the needed step of removing the gateway device to social media - the smartphone.  If you are going to take the stand that social media is hurting kids, then how can you in good conscience allow them in schools? 

In fact, the school boards themselves, maybe opening themselves up to the same litigation, once harm to kids is legally established. 

Many have argued, as I have, that smartphones will be soon seen in the same light as smoking in the 1950’s.  Back then, smoking took place in school washrooms, smoker pits and teacher lounges. T…