nina from canada eh on Nostr: “The final straw was when the school started saying, with some smugness, ‘We give ...
“The final straw was when the school started saying, with some smugness, ‘We give every child a Chromebook, and they do a lot of lessons on their Chromebook, and they do all their homework on their Chromebook,’ and you just thought, ‘That is the last f–king thing they need,’ and the last thing we need.”
At the event, Grant joined US author and social psychologist Dr. Jonathan Haidt and King Charles III’s second cousin Sophie Winkleman in pushing back against smartphone use for students under 14.
In campaigning for screen-free schools, Dr. Haidt argued that social media should be banned for students under 16 amid what he called an “epidemic of mental illness” in youth compounded by “attention fragmentation.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/04/24/parents/hugh-grant-slams-the-pathetic-private-rules-at-his-kids-posh-schools/
At the event, Grant joined US author and social psychologist Dr. Jonathan Haidt and King Charles III’s second cousin Sophie Winkleman in pushing back against smartphone use for students under 14.
In campaigning for screen-free schools, Dr. Haidt argued that social media should be banned for students under 16 amid what he called an “epidemic of mental illness” in youth compounded by “attention fragmentation.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/04/24/parents/hugh-grant-slams-the-pathetic-private-rules-at-his-kids-posh-schools/