School Districts Should Not Be Suing Instagram and TikTok for Being ‘Nuisances’
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How would you feel if the school district educating your children sued the local newspaper, radio station, bookstore or library because the district claimed that they could no longer properly educate your children as those kids were distracted and spending too much time on any of those things? Or how about if they sued the makers of chess sets for dulling your children’s minds?
You might raise serious questions about the education your kids were receiving. You might wonder how prepared those districts were to educate your children on how to live in the modern world. You might wonder about the quality of schools overseen by administrators prone to falling for moral panics and mass hysteria without evidence (phenomena you might hope the schools would actually be educating your own children to recognize and avoid).