Starmer's social media ban will set children free |
I spent years teaching in secondary schools, and one thing became impossible to ignore: the children sitting in front of me were growing up differently from the generations before them.
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This is not because they were less resilient, less capable or less ambitious, but because childhood itself had changed.
When people debate social media, they often focus on harmful content. That matters. But as a teacher, that wasn’t what worried me most. What worried me was seeing more and more of childhood being lived through a screen.
I saw friendship fallouts follow pupils from the classroom to the playground, from the bus home to their bedroom. I saw children’s self-esteem rise and fall with likes, followers........