Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren

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They should be using tablets. Wax tablets. It was good enough for my great-to-the-nth-grandfather, so it's good enough for kids today.

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I hope you don't breed.

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Yeah! And what about these libraries? Lids are just able to go and find stuff on shelves and learn things that aren't filtered through my personal opinions?

What kind of society are we creating?

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Please. Paper is modern nonsense and I won't have our society polluted by it. Papyrus or stone tablets only.

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Not sure if sarcastic, but if serious, this is a completely idiotic take. I have three kids of school age and I really can't see a reason for this.

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Already did, that's why I care.

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Foolish comment. Wax tablets didn't have social media, three million notifications, tracking and spying features, countless distractions, updates, power, and connectivity requirements.

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Agreed. We can't run the risk that children might think on their own or develop an opinion on things.

They're here to take care of me when I'm old, and until I'm dead they're going to do exactly what I say, when I say, and how I say.

We don't need this kind of woke "thinking for yourself" nonsense.

(Very /s for the person out there that had a bad case of the woosh.)

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don't judge children because of their parents. not everyone turns out like their parents. many people are very different because of their strict upbringing.

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I'm all for libraries. Cruz rationale is retarded, all I'm saying is that the government shouldn't be providing wifi hotspots to kids.

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He is literally, outloud, complaining that the reason is because maybe kids who are unsupervised and have access to things are somehow going to have less access(??) to conservative viewpoints. The society he’s so afraid of creating is one where he cannot control children’s access to filtered, conservative-biased media, and since pretty much every conservative talking point is a lie, exaggeration, or manipulated perspective they desperately need to be in control of the flow of information. They’re literally banning paper books, bro.

Also this is about hotspot use being expanded outside of schools(“off-premises”), but if that comment is your take then maybe reading comprehension isn’t your thing. Guess those paper textbooks didn’t really do anything to help you, either.

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Woooooooooosh

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How do you expect them do assignments like papers, by typewriter? No, I suppose that's a device too, so hand-written only. Truly, this will equip them to be functioning adults!

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While I enjoyed having paper textbooks in school (until I got to college and they were $300+ each), when was the last time you seriously used a paper textbook to learn something new? In this day and age we have Google/Bing/Kagi and you’re going to search for the thing you need to know, pull up Wikipedia, read a few blog posts or the documentation from the project itself, and then apply what you learned.

We’re teaching children how better to survive in today’s world, not teaching them how to survive in our grandfathers world.

Now, my kid has read a few physical paperbacks for her high school English class, and reads plenty of physical books when she gets them from the library or buys them, but classwork is online, instruction is in person, and she seems to be doing just fine not carrying around 20lbs of paper every day. If anything I’d say her note taking has improved more than mine did when I assumed I could simply just open the book back up. This is the world we live in and she’s being taught how to survive in it.

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Technology is going to be a part of every kids future (if they have one...) and should be taught with the other things they need to learn to be functional and successful.

There are other ways to limit social media access, and wccessnto other unproductive media. Use school sanctioned devices for work. Hire proper IT folk to lock down the equipment. But that would require funding for schools to be adequate.

This is a complex issue. You are over simplifying it.

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This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! For the children!!! \s

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You can't woosh the original woosher. The downvotes are hilarious.

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It's not wrong to question whether any actual learning is taking place on "devices" regardless of whether they're ubiquitous. It's easy to pick up how to use a device after you know how to read and do math, much harder to learn the former when you're an expert at navigating menus on a device. Maybe this is why 4th grade math skills haven't returned to pre-pandemic levels...

Also don't woosh me. Are you going to skibidy next?

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His rationale is ridiculous, but my comment is meant to question why wifi is even necessary to do homework, not about the dangers of censorship. Of course the censorship is outrageous.

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Ok boomer

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Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren