• capital@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this uncommon? During high school in the US in 2005, we’d get our phones taken by teachers if they saw us with it or heard it.

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        1 year ago

        We weren’t supposed to have them at all, all day. And if it got taken, they’d keep it until your parent came to get it from the office.

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      1 year ago

      Phones now are a way more important part of people’s (and especially teenagers’) lives than they were back then. And they’re often also used to support lessons.

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        I was in middle school in 2005 and had basically no friends largely because I had no phone to text with.

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          SAME. We had no texting plan because the phone companies charged per-text at the time.

          That’s when I learned about the email gateways for all the major carriers so at least I could “text” when I was at home via email.

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            I didn’t figure out that particular trick until pretty late, unfortunately, but it did serve me VERY well during high school.