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

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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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You completely missed my point, perhaps it is you who has the whoosh?

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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!

Recommendations state that children and adolescents should have screen time limited to 2 hours a day or less. If the average school day is 5-6 hours with an average of 2 hours of homework a night, and everything is done on screens, we are actively violating scientific health guidelines and damaging the students brains.

Reading books is also better for the brain than reading the same information from a screen as there is less stimuli being processed while reading the book allowing the brain to have more focus on the processing of information.

Writing by hand is a proven way to retain and better understand information. Learning and practicing writing in both block and cursive improves these outcomes further. Typing, even on a typewriter, does not have the same benefits.

So yes, making students write assignments out by hand using physical books for research will equip them to be more functional as adults.

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As has been well documented time and again, Texas textbooks are not neutral sources of information (podcast for anyone interested). Taking real books out of the library, controlling the content of textbooks, getting rid of Internet access specifically because it could introduce thought to children... Home of the free, my friends. Free speech absolutism.

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I am actually reading a paper book right now to learn about configuring advanced features of ZFS. Hard to believe but it's much easier to understand than the fragments of information on Stack Exchange. The man pages are nice to reference but they don't really teach the concepts or give good examples. And Perplexity gave me bad information. Even for very technical things, which you might think would be the first to be displaced, there's still a place for paper books. Yeah I could figure it out eventually but reading this book has probably been faster, more thorough, and more approachable.

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let alone being required to use them for schoolwork.

I was born in 1991. In elementary school I had assignments that required a computer. This is not new.

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Seeing how many people believe you are wrong, I am going to post the reasons why you are right so hopefully the people in disagreement understand:

Recommendations state that children and adolescents should have screen time limited to 2 hours a day or less, with emphasis on "less". If the average school day is 5-6 hours with an average of 2 hours of homework a night, and everything is done on screens, we are actively violating scientific health guidelines and damaging the students brains.

Reading books is better for the brain than reading the same information from a screen as there is less stimuli being processed while reading the book allowing the brain to have more focus on the processing of information.

Writing by hand is a proven way to retain and better understand information. Learning and practicing writing in both block and cursive improves these outcomes further. Typing, even on a typewriter, does not have the same benefits.

The fact that so many people do not understand these three very important things demonstrates a lot of ignorance and bias for technology. How many studies are needed before the "Regulations should be based in scientific study" crowd stop pushing against the recommendations of the scientific community?

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Hotspot lending could “censor kids’

definition of censorship is not your access to alternatives to the "state propaganda curriculum". Access to alternatives is in fact the opposite of censorship.

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Remember when he tweeted out a pornhub video

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