Wed May 10, 2023 – 3:28 pm EDT
MIAMI (LifeSiteNews) – Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday banning China-linked social app TikTok on public school devices and restricting students’ use of social media in classrooms, suggesting that social media “causes more harm than good” in education.
DeSantis signed five different bills Tuesday pertaining to education, including HB 379, which authorizes teachers to set rules on student cell phone use (including confiscating phones during class time), requires schools to block students from accessing social media websites from district-owned computers or servers, bans all use of TikTok on district-owned devices, and requires schools to teach about harmful effects of social media.
“Being normal kids, like kids were prior to social media, is important,” the governor said during a bill signing at a Miami charter school, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports. “The social media (causes) more problems than it solves, and I think it causes more harm than good. So, let’s have our education system be as much about traditional education as we can.”
“Teachers should walk into the classroom every day knowing that they are respected, and if they have to intervene, not be worried
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