Adult's use of Technology - Fabian

This issue has been occurring recently. Adults are scolding teens for being on their phones while they too use the devices. Adults stereotypically think that if teens are using their phones, they are doing something non productive. But if adults use their phones a lot, they are viewed as busy. This has been happening more and more, adults judging teens about their use of technology just because they are teens.

Picture this, a busy school day and a student is getting their phone out of their pocket. He had just turned it on when 2 teachers approached him, one of them also on their phone. As soon as the teachers saw the student, they harshly told him to put the phone away and there would be consequences if this happened again. In UWCSEA, the school where this happened, there is a rule that the students are not allowed to be on technology during break and lunchtime but the teachers are able to use technology as they please. Due to this, there's been a lot of incidents about teachers telling students to put away their phone or laptop even if they are using their technology to do school work.

This has also been happening at home. As we spoke to Fabian who happens to be a student at UWCSEA he told the story of how he was using his phone at home when his dad came home. He saw that Fabian was on his phone and immediately told him to put the phone away as the dad thought he wasn’t being being productive even though he was just researching some school work.

A survey was conducted at UWCSEA and of the people that answered the survey 95% of them said that they an adult has told them to put away their phone at least once. Of the 95% 66% said they found it unfair that adults can use their phone as much as they want while teens get scolded for using them. Most said that this happens 1-3 times a month while 4 said it happens 3-6 times and 3 people said it happens at least 6 times a month. These results show that the adults are just judging the teens while not even knowing the reason behind the person using their phone.

In conclusion, many teens are finding it unfair how parents are adults in general are judging them as soon as they use their phone for an extended period of time they put it away don't do that don't do this well we might be researching for school or catching up with friends as they're allowed to do that. Some questions still remain “Does this only happen in technology or just in general, do adults always judge teens before knowing the true intentions of behind what the teens are doing?”