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A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students

www.nbcnews.com A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students

The American Federation of Teachers said in a report that social media apps have had a negative effect on classrooms.

A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students

The nation’s second-largest teachers union said Thursday it was losing patience with social media apps that it says are contributing to mental health problems and misbehavior in classrooms nationwide, draining time and money from teachers and school systems.

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  • We work with high schoolers and have for over 25 years. My husband is a high school band director. This is absolutely completely true and getting worse each year. COVID really contributed to very rapid decline in mental health, and we're only more seeing kids get just a tad better. Many parents aren't willing to make the hard choices for their kids and turn off these devices. The kids are not ok and we as a society are doing nothing to fix it.

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