It’s not quite that simple, as you are kind of coerced into getting a phone at a very young age (usually ~8). So the good parents risk their kids being one of the weird kids without a phone, with all the ostracism and bullying that might come with that. It’s quite a dilemma actually.
That’s up to the parents to do. Not up to the government to do. That’s not the government’s job. That’s the parents’ job. I do agree that devices shouldn’t be added to the school’s curriculum until later, instead of at kinder as it is now. But legally banning phones for <14 is offloading responsibility to an entity that should never have that responsibility.
So… 100,000 parents decided they didn’t want to parent and would rather the “guvment” do the parenting for them and for the rest of the country?..
It’s not quite that simple, as you are kind of coerced into getting a phone at a very young age (usually ~8). So the good parents risk their kids being one of the weird kids without a phone, with all the ostracism and bullying that might come with that. It’s quite a dilemma actually.
That’s up to the parents to do. Not up to the government to do. That’s not the government’s job. That’s the parents’ job. I do agree that devices shouldn’t be added to the school’s curriculum until later, instead of at kinder as it is now. But legally banning phones for <14 is offloading responsibility to an entity that should never have that responsibility.
Now you’re getting it! Let big government raise their kids rather than just parenting themselves!