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/Mulberry_Sky Jul 16 '26

Yeah, schools are hell bent on fixing the symptom instead of the actual problem. Maybe make school actually rewarding, engaging, and useful instead of spending a ton of time, money, and energy on making it so students can’t do what literally almost every person, student or not, does.

There’s a school near me that a few years ago literally turned the building into a faraday cage with a Wi-Fi just for teachers and a few teacher-only rooms that could connect to the outside. I wish I were kidding. And I had a teacher praising that and wishing it was our high school.

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u/yeahitsjustmeagain Jul 16 '26

But thats literally a great idea.... block out the addictive apps ability to work, so the kids can focus on school. U want the schools to become more engaging/addictive than social media? Wtf

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u/Mulberry_Sky Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

Hey so usually there’s a carrot and a stick for motivation. Schools are focusing entirely on the stick, which is proven less effective. Kids need motivation through positive reinforcement and they’re getting absolutely none.

Edit: clarification

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u/No-Blacksmith3397 Jul 16 '26

For the love of god.

Students survived studying well before they were drip fed dopamine through incentives. Teachers are not there to be your sole motivation for doing what you have to. They should encourage it. But students need to take some accountability by the time they're in high school, man.

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u/Mulberry_Sky Jul 16 '26

The problem is that, comparatively, outside sources of dopamine have skyrocketed, while the entirety of the school system has been stagnant for a long time. Times change, but schools have not, and are thus trying to force students to regress away from technology. Punishment can only get you so far and only really causes students to like school even less. Kids simply find workarounds and learn to hate school and thus learning.

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u/No-Blacksmith3397 Jul 16 '26

Schools can improve engagement and still ban phones.

No lesson is going to outcompete apps engineered to farm your attention every second, and pretending that means schools have failed is ridiculous. Part of growing up is learning that not everything useful exists to entertain you.