Four Ontario school boards are the latest to launch lawsuits against social-media giants for their products’ impact on young people. But educational leaders must reflect on the role they’ve played
the lawsuit that four Ontario school boards launched against three social-media giants last week,The lawsuit, brought by district school boards for Toronto, Ottawa-Carleton and Peel, as well as the Toronto Catholic District School Board, alleges that platforms such as Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram are responsible for a laundry list of teen pathologies, including distraction, isolation, cyberbullying, aggression and declining mental health.
But now school boards are chiming in with a grievance of their own: that today’s teens are so damaged that schools are having trouble educating them. The Ontario lawsuit, which followslaunched by school boards south of the border, is asking social-media companies to redesign their platforms and to provide the four boards with more than $4-billion in compensation.
About a decade ago, classrooms began filling with laptops and iPads as educational leaders claimed that students needed to get on screens early to compete in the digitally connected future. Technology companies licked their chops as governments sang the praises of e-learning . Soon, the education system was hooked.
No doubt school boards will argue that the detrimental impact of social media has largely happened outside schools’ walls. But it’s simply not true.
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