⟳ Репост от Matt Freeman
Many years ago, I worked with the local council in youth programmes. We'd put on activities and events, especially over summer, in some of the poorest parts of town The petty crime, vandalism and burglaries plummeted. Then the tories cut funding.
r o oWhen people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down