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I won't say whether it's better or worse to ban phones during break, but I do think it is worthwhile to point out something that you might not know, given that you're still in school.
School is most likely the last time in your life to have actual, true friends. In college, and especially in work, your friends will almost certainly be fair weather friends, friends made out of convenience rather than anything substantial.
I get that school sucks. I still think so. But there's some benefits to how schools are run that you won't recognize until you're already out of school. Your social life will absolutely get tougher and you'll be more isolated. So, my advice is to take the bad with the good. Have some fun with your friends in-person, because that's really never going to happen again. Please don't waste your school life on your phone.
Nice reply. You made me reconsider that part about phones during breaks.
It is too late for me, but I believe it is for the better. If I made friends with the kind of classmates I always had, I believe they would have bad influence on me. For example, last year the class' main character, 17 at the time, found someone's shoes in locker room, unattended. He decided to piss into them. Also popular is weed, vaping, alcohol, making mess in places like McDonald's (like mixing a burger with cola and spilling it all over the table...), damaging school property on purpose, etc..
While not friends, I do have good memories about some teachers that will last. My elementary school teacher was quite nice. She would always listen if I wanted to talk about something, even if it was relatively nonsense. If I found something interesting, I was always hyped to tell her. Basically like a mom should be.
In middle school, my physics, chemistry and math teachers were nice.
You could always have some conversation with physics teacher, whether school related or not. He always kept happy mood, at least on the outside.
The math teacher did similarly, but I also appreciate how hard he tried to get us to learn at least something. He got to the point where he shown us the exact questions that were to be on exam. It didn't help. Now I feel quite sad about him, you could sometimes see him on the verge of crying. Especially during and after the COVID-19 lockdown. He tried hard to make math more interesting.
Chemistry teacher was also nice. I could talk with him about problems I had at home. Being able to tell about your problems to someone is nice. Also, when the COVID-19 lockdown came, we had online learning. I didn't have internet access, and only got an old laptop with broken keyboard from neighbor and I didn't have money for a replacement keyboard. It really surprised me, but he gave me money to fix that laptop. I don't know if he also intended that, but it made me feel like I had to put more effort into studying. I won't forget that.
Most of my high school teachers are nice though. Actually there's just 1 I don't like. That is a nice change since till high school it was just the 4 aforementioned that I liked.