Tennessee School District Sues Social
Media Companies Over Growing Mental Health
Crisis Among Students
Daily Wire,
by
Brandon Drey
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/25/2023 9:51:17 PM
A Nashville school district became the latest education system to sue several social media companies over growing mental health concerns among students, joining more than 40 nationwide districts demanding accountability from big tech.
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) reportedly filed a lawsuit against Meta, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Google, WhatsApp, and YouTube due to the “damages and growing mental health crisis among students.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LadyHen 5/25/2023 10:10:46 PM (No. 1477647)
Good! That said, can parents not do anything to keep their kids off social media, like not buying them a cell phone, use internet usage monitoring software, heck just keep the computer in the family room, no computers or TVs in kids rooms?
One nit pick: Clarksville-Montgomery County School System is not a Nashville (Davidson County) school district. Clarksville, TN is about an hour NW of Nashville proper.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MissNan 5/25/2023 10:12:32 PM (No. 1477650)
It’s too bad you can’t sue the parents.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 5/26/2023 2:47:57 AM (No. 1477712)
It's kind of like suing the gun companies. It IS up to parents to keep their kids safe. Social Media does have the potential to be addicting for everyone. Parents, like Congress, have the power of the purse. If you want your kids to have a phone give them a phone without a data package. I see little children with thousand dollar iPhones. That's nuts in itself. Get 2 modems for your Wifi, one for the TV stream and other household and parental devices, and one for the kid devices. Then, turn it off at bedtime especially, and, any time necessary according to your house rules. This plan, after a brief "withdrawal" period, it worked very well for us. Just commit the wifi passwords to memory.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/26/2023 3:11:53 AM (No. 1477714)
For our children's sakes - comeuppance is long overdue.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/26/2023 4:09:09 AM (No. 1477723)
I would wager that more school districts are directly responsible for mental problems in children, teaching them that they are racist, privileged or born with the wrong set of genitals. What is social media but information from other people used to influence children with extreme leftist propaganda. Big Tech merely supplies the platform except when they actively filter out the truth that counters the leftist BS. Yes, it ultimately is up to the parents who should not let a cell phone or a computer assume babysitting duties.
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Parents need to start looking at another real culprit. Marijuana is known to basically destroy short term memory in young developing brains and our children are being sold this debilitating drug as a harmless drug with no side effects. Think about the teens who are having these psychotic episodes. Time to tell the truth about this dangerous drug that the politicians want to make a windfall profit on. They are pushing this poison to your children and adults are treatig it as if it were aspirin. It is far from that. Look around you and you will see the lives that it has and still is ruining. Combine that with the social media and you have a toxic cocktail of despair that cannot lead to a good place for your child's future.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 5/26/2023 5:12:26 AM (No. 1477757)
So pass the buck. How about looking in the mirror and admitting that the bulls#@! that you hand out as "education," is a big part of the "mental health" crisis?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
twinkles 5/26/2023 5:34:45 AM (No. 1477773)
My two grandsons received their first cell phones at 18 and 19. My daughter said they usually forgot to take them when they went out. My son-in-law monitored them when they were on the computer. The whole family learned to speak Italian when the boys were little They were mostly homeschooled and didn’t grow up with tv. The oldest starting learning online to speak Japanese at age 4 They are smart, delightful, funny, ambitious young men. They cook, clean and do the family laundry. They’re not perfect but they’re a pleasure to be with. Praise God !
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 5/26/2023 7:09:14 AM (No. 1477804)
I doubt the schools have standing for such lawsuits..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/26/2023 8:02:24 AM (No. 1477835)
Social media is not responsible. Unfortunately it is where kids go for information on the things that they hear in school and on TV. The constant push of the LGBTQ/Trans agenda, push for equity, diversity,
inclusion, and constant droning on about racism and White Supremacists gets confusing and depressing. Kids turn to Social media which then feeds on stereo types depending on where they look. No wonder they are messed up. Parents, schools, government "leaders", and other so called influences have made them that way.
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