The American Federation of Teachers said in a report that social media apps have had a negative effect on classrooms.

A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students::The nation’s second-largest teachers union said Thursday it was losing patience with social media apps that it says are contributing to mental health problems and misbehavior in classrooms nationwide, draining time and money from teachers and school systems.

  • whenever8186@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    My kid’s school here in the UK banned them, but the kids all take them in anyways and the teachers don’t care.

    I had banned YouTube in the house, but then the school started assigning homework to watch YouTube videos.

    The dependence of our infrastructure on private social media companies is shocking and needs to be stopped immediately.