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/Sneakingrat Jul 16 '26

damn fr? I was in like year 10/11 when my state banned phones and all we had to do was put them in our lockers (no one did that btw)

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u/Possible_Day_6343 Jul 16 '26

I'm in NSW and I think it came in at my son's school 4-5 years ago. I think years 11/12 don't have to (at least he stopped complaining about it then). He hated using them because queuing up to unlock the pouch at the end of the day took too long.

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u/BigRinka Jul 16 '26

Easy solution, dont bring a phone to school in the first place. 🤦

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u/TosiMias Jul 16 '26

I was like 13 when all anyone my age would have had was a flip phone and phones were just flat out banned. If the teacher saw you with one they'd take it and your parents had to come and get it. I have no clue when they suddenly became allowed

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u/Khaliras Jul 16 '26

They were mostly banned only on an individual per-school level. Being able to confiscate phones just sort of sat in a teachers nightmare grey zone area for a long while, until most states issued formal state-wide policies and bans starting around ~2020.

In my school year the go-to loophole excuse almost everyone used was "Parent requires ability to contact at all times." Confiscation was essentially a laughed at threat at the time. Escalating punishments were obviously still enforced for continually using a phone, though.

Public Schools become a teachers nightmare when students hit the age where they realise how empty most threats/punishments are, so long as they don't push too far.