Texting Is A Leading Distraction In School

Sat May 30, 2009, 8:47 am | 1 Comment

Texting is a leading distraction in schools and inside classrooms and from the lectures and studies that the students, otherwise, might have been involved in. New York Times did an article by Katie Hafner Published: May 25, 2009. She says of students in middle and high schools:

They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs hurt.

The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.

“Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decide you want to be,” said Sherry Turkle, a psychologist who is director of the Initiative on Technology and Self at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As for peace and quiet, she said, “if something next to you is vibrating every couple of minutes, it makes it very difficult to be in that state of mind.”

“If you are being deluged by constant communication, the pressure to answer immediately is quite high,” she added. “So if you are in the middle of a thought, forget it.”

Michael Hausauer, a psychotherapist in Oakland, Calif., said teenagers had a “terrific interest in knowing what’s going on in the lives of their peers, coupled with a terrific anxiety about being out of the loop.”For that reason, he said, the rapid rise [in doing it] has potential for great benefit and great harm.

Are you aware that your teenage son or daughter may be falling grades and worse may be failing. It might be because of excessive texting they do to their friends and texting may be taking a toll on their grades and health.

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