I’m assuming your son is playing Minecraft at a very high level. Believe it or not, it does stimulate ones mind via creativity and business negotiations (charging for certain access and items). My (intellectual) S used to be addicted to that for a few years but grew bored of it in his early HS years. As long as he’s somewhat social and maintain decent conversations with adults & friends, I would not be concerned about the extensive time expended on Minecraft at this time.
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Take the iphone away. He doesn’t need it.
This is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. What about kids whose families can’t afforIt is in fact mind-bogglingly stupid on so many levels. If the schools want kids to access the internet during school, they should purchase school laptops.
^^Our system also has BYOT (I may be in the same county), and if a kid can’t afford his/her own tech, the school provides laptops/tablets during class. I believe the kid may be able to check out and bring home laptops, but I’m not 100% sure there.
The libraries in our county also have a ton of computers the kids can use. I volunteer at the library and there are a lot of kids at the library over the summer working on the computers.
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^^ I’m thinking it’s not the same county because to my knowledge they do not have laptops or tablets in the class rooms for kids to use. That’s why the 11th graders teachers have done group projects where only 1 kid actually needs to have a phone. Although honestly I think the majority of the kids have cell phones at our high school…
After thinking about it I remembered that last year one of my sons teachers had some computers in the back of the room that weren’t connected to the internet. They used them for some sort of extra practice testing. They were running windows 98…So I’m pretty sure that the county is not supplying extra laptops/tablets for the classrooms…
BYOT is a fairly common thing in districts that can’t afford many class sets of devices. I agree that it is inequitable for kids from low-income families. Our HS uses BYOT sort of. I think there are some extras or a desktop computer or two in many classrooms. If they are all supposed to be writing in Google Docs vs. researching, they go to a computer lab.
OP’s kid might be interested in Minecraft modding, which is Java programming, and pretty advanced at that because of the size of the Minecraft codebase. He might need a local tutor to learn how (social interaction). My son got into Minecraft modding in 7th/8th grade and ended up taking the AP Comp Sci test in 8th grade and got a 5.
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