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Middle school removes bathroom mirrors to stop kids from making TikToks (www.the-express.com)

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Middle school removes bathroom mirrors to stop kids from making TikToks::Southern Alamance Middle School in Graham, North Carolina has taken drastic steps to reduce the time kids spend outside of class.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When I was a kid, there were pay phones so that kids could make calls for when they wanted to be picked up. And we had landline at home so that if you needed to make a call, you could.

Those things don't really exist anymore. And now we have phones with apps that monitor medical conditions like diabetes. Let's single out those kids?

In other situations, the front office is there. That is the function that they have served for generations. Give the office aides something to do.

So make the office staff stay after hours so that the kids with after school activities can make a phone call? Yeah, because fuck the school staff, right?

The horse has already left the gate. You're not going to get it back.

[–] andros_rex 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

504s exist for kids who need them for medical purposes. (Had a diabetic kid - her mom made sure she knew the phone was only for monitoring) While there aren’t pay phones; there is a landline in the office at every school that students will be able to use.

The office workers are hourly and are already scheduled to stay for at least an hour after school. That’s part of their job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

At my school there was an office phone outside the office that anyone could use. No need to staff it.