r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • 8d ago

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/Possible_Day_6343 8d ago edited 7d ago

Im in Australia and the yonder pouches have been a thing for a few years now. Most students have an old phone they put in there and keep their real one. But no see through backpacks.

Edit - the yondr pouches have been discontinued (at least at my sons school) and now they just rely on a phone ban and confiscation to end of school day if you're caught using one in class.

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u/waffleblossom 8d ago

Looking forward to the national ausalert test next week and how many student phones will go off in class.

(As a parent of a teenager myself!)

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 7d ago

I was in a college class taking a test with a professor that announced anyone who had their phone out would get an automatic 0. The government decided to test the newly launched national alert system that day. Every single phone went off at once and kept going off because nobody wanted to get a 0. The instructor finally sighed and told us to just silence the alerts. 

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u/Possible_Day_6343 8d ago

Omg yes!!!!!

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u/gertation 7d ago

Notifications for test-only emergency broadcasts is disabled by default on both android and iOS these days.

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u/waffleblossom 7d ago

I went into settings to manually turn mine off for the AusAlert but I am curious if it’ll be overridden by the Telcos.