The nation’s second-largest teachers union says it's losing patience with social media apps that it says are contributing to mental health problems and misbehavior in classrooms nationwide, and draining time and money from teachers and school systems.
and government entities have sued the companies behind apps such as TikTok and Instagram because of the associated problems.
Congress is also considering a crackdown, with several bills introduced this year to regulate social media use, including a proposal to ban children under 13Federation President Randi Weingarten said in an interview with NBC News that teachers’ jobs are now much more difficult because of social media apps.
“When a young person becomes despondent because they’ve been sent all sorts of images about body weight, that young adolescent brings that to school,” she said. “There is a challenge in terms of well-being and behavior in the classroom, and a teacher doesn’t have at the ready a counselor or a social worker that they can go to,” Weingarten said. “The teacher is supposed to be teaching the class.”
The report does not single out a specific social media app. Instead, it makes a series of recommendations that the federation says all companies should adopt, including stopping phone notifications during the school day, eliminating the autoplay of videos and the infinite scrolling of feeds, and allowing students the choice to turn off or reset recommendation algorithms.
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