r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/passisgullible Jul 16 '26

So student here who had them. The kids who want to use their phones still do, they either put a dummy phone in or literally just use their hands to rip open the case (it gets easier over time) and relock before a teacher sees. The only thing it stopped is good kids from occasionally checking notifications

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u/Pitiful-Pension-6535 Jul 16 '26

Sounds like school staff need to start actually enforcing policy. Our school district has competent staff and they handle it really well.

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u/SolitaryMassacre Jul 16 '26

School staff need to stop treating their students like robots/machines that need to obey specific code in order to be able to function.

School staff need to stop thinking the only thing that matters are test scores.

School staff need to stop controlling their teachers, fund them adequately, so school can be more focused about learning.

Then, once that happens, students won't even care to be on their phones. Worried so much about the wrong, useless thing

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u/MyLastAcctWasBetter Jul 16 '26

Bro. It’s not school staff that cares about any of that shit… or it is, but not because they personally care or want to do those things. Literally every problem you listed is due to the STATE. States fund public schools impose the curriculum standards and testing that literally EVERYONE hates. If you want to see change, complaining about school staff won’t get you anywhere. They hate it as much as you do.

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u/SolitaryMassacre Jul 16 '26

Oh, I don't disagree at all. By school staff I mean like the school board. Cause the school board is also heavily involved in this shit too. They come up with stupid bullshit rules for no reason whatsoever