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Video – Response to principal who bans social media

I love the quote: “Kids beat each other up in the playground all the time. We don’t ban schools” or recess.

I wonder if people tried to ban phones because crooks and bad people behaved badly?

Yep – real schools take responsbility for teaching the skills and behaviours needed to grow up and survive in a civil society. Bad schools pass the buck up the line or take the false easy-way-out by banning it (with probably the opposite effect).

Has anything every been banned that didn’t increase its popularity? I hear that some PR companies in Hollywood are thrilled when some ‘anti’ group takes a shine to their film! Anyone think the rumour that the CIA is thinking about buying all 10,000 copies of a book won’t make it far more popular than it would have been?

Stephen