alt Hacker NewsMy kids were basically required to have a phone for school. In theory they could use a laptop for everything but in practice it was assumed you had a phone.
They were supposed to use the calendar for assignments (and were given time to use the calendar), the teacher would tell them to take a picture of the white board with their homework assignment on it, and they used some private app (don't know the name of it) for messaging the teacher.
This was a few years ago though, so maybe now the tide has turned?
Edit: The rules have changed:
https://tea.texas.gov/taa-letters/implementation-texas-house...
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tyrust • yesterday at 6:21 PM
This is pretty wild, I had no idea any school was like this. What grade and area was this in? Public school?
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That’s actually pretty cool if they’re being taught to use the organizational tools of the phone.
I’m strongly against phones in school, but as a child myself, I was extremely unorganized. And did not get my act together fully until college, when I had a simple laptop with a calendar app where I could plan out all my classes, assignments, etc.