AIBU to think parents will break the social media rules for summerborn children’s GCSE revision?

[SummerAutumnborn]

So as a parent of a September born child my child will be able to access YouTube educational videos before their GCSEs start. Some of these resources are excellent.

Their best friend (August born) will not be able to access any videos before the GCSEs start unless their parents break the rules.

At A-Level my child will have unlimited access their best friend won’t - a problem for kids who access sports clubs in the evening and want to revise before bed.

Summer borns have an educational disadvantage anyway - will this widen the gap further? Here is a BBC article from a few years ago.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23435439

Am I being unreasonable thinking parents who agree with the SM ban will break the rules if it disadvantages their summer born child?

Out of interest for those of you who do support the social media ban are you going to say to your child that they cannot access exam resources on YouTube and X even if they are better than school and BBC resources? Or when it comes to an educational advantage will you find it acceptable to break the rules and allow access?

I disagree with the ban btw so would have no issue if it affected my child.

Snap - same grades and all.

It will make as much difference as when they moved the WhatsApp age from 13yo to 16yo around about 2016.

ie A few parents decided their dc wouldn't have WhatsApp unil they were 16yo. Some of those dc got it anyway, either on their "spare" phone (often bought off a friend) or kept quiet in various ways. And the children who didn't have it stuck out and found they were missing out on a lot of interaction with their peers making it harder for them to make friends.

This is all so ludicrous.

the truth is - independent reading - which is a HUGE indicator of academic success - had rapidly declined due to screens across the whole of British childhood. Young people are barely at all now reading for pleasure or for their on learning. That is a statistical truth not disproved by a single kid still reading.

Your teen can watch youtube on an adult log in obviously.

The ban is there to make it clear that it is not good for kids to be using these sites day to day and on their own

Like smoking - bans don't stop every young person - they make it culturally known its unhealthy and they make it harder for it to be used by those who are too young.

so much handwringing

The problem is not with kids watching the odd educational video under their parents' supervision. I let my primary aged kids watch craft YouTube videos. I watch with them. I don't see a problem with that. The problem is giving kids unfettered, unlimited and unsupervised access to watch mindless or harmful nonsense to the extent that they stop engaging in the real world.

Yes that's what I thought

It never ceases to surprise me how black and white some people’s thinking is. Of course you can still allow revision videos on YouTube. The ban will hopefully start to normalise not doomscrolling for hours on end on teens phones. I am pleased they’re at least trying to limit social media for kids. If it even helps to break habits just a little it’s better than not trying.

It’s a non-issue. I need to body double for a lot is DS’s revision as he has ADHD and dyspraxia (so struggle to write much down and needs to practice using a scribe.) We find YouTube videos quite helpful and he accesses them using my or his laptop. Why would that change?

OP: "they cannot access exam resources on YouTube and X"

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What's your point?

I too am dubious that X/Twitter was ever a particularly good resource for revision (and to the extent it hosted good resources, I'm sure they can be published elsewhere).

Why does everyone have to have a point ? Or even "point" ?

Why can't someone provide the smallest piece of reportage with the aim of facilitating discussion and unbderstanding ?: