On: Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness

[logicchains]

>If the kid has an emergency, the teacher can call the parents. If the parents are having an emergency, the can call the school.

What about if the kid's being bullied? Half the time the teacher will side with the bully, especially if the bully's a more popular kid.

[WalterBright → logicchains]

Have cell phones ever stopped bullying?

[nicolas_t → WalterBright]

I know it's rhetorical but just to answer. No, in general phones increase bullying. Before phone and social media, bullied children would finish the school day and leave the bullying behind them. Now, it follows them on their phones with countless mocking messages... Messages like "X should kill himself for being so ...." and so on.

It makes the psychological part of any bullying that much more relentless.

[WalterBright → nicolas_t]

Today, when a kid gets bullied, other students stand around recording in on their phones and posting it to the internet.

[jimbob45 → logicchains]

In any case, the bully and the bullied will likely be separated for the rest of the day once the teacher is involved so the phone never needs to come into play.