About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a proposed under-16 social media ban and its effects on education and youth culture.

This week, the lads are back with a big chat about the proposed under-16 social media ban and whether it actually solves the problem or just shifts it somewhere else. Lee and Adam talk through phones, attention spans, online safety, loneliness, youth clubs, boredom and why children need better alternatives than just being told to “go outside” like it’s 1998 and Snake on a Nokia is the height of entertainment. There’s also a look at the wider impact of social media on schools, from behaviour and friendships to the way trends, language and online drama somehow always end up landing in classrooms by 9:05am. As always, it becomes less “education policy discussion” and more “how are schools expected to fix absolutely everything?” The episode then takes a very strange turn with a bizarre education story involving hypnosis in a school, because apparently the job description wasn’t already weird enough. There’s also a blind ranking of end-of-year traditions, with the usual mix of strong opinions, questionable logic and Adam trying to keep some sort of order. Finally, the listener stories bring the usual chaos. Expect tales of pupil madness, staff exhaustion, end-of-term survival mode and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Lee, Adam

Topics covered

• social media ban
• youth clubs
• online safety
• education policy
• classroom behavior
• end-of-year traditions

Keywords

• social media
• education
• youth
• hypnosis
• classroom
• traditions
• online safety

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast)

Places: Norwich, Epic Studios

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